Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: LeRoy Robert Ripley rose to fame during the Great Depression, transforming himself into an entertainer who mesmerized the nation with his razzle-dazzle blend of homespun Americana and freakish oddities. Over three decades, his franchise grew into an entertainment empire. This is the story of the man who popularized the iconic phrase, and proof of why we still can't resist his challenge to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RIPSummary: Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: An astronaut-in-training has to leave NASA (to save the family farm) but just can't give up on his dream of shooting into space, even if he has to do it all by himself. And that will of course get everyone up in arms, from his wife to his banker to the town gossips to the media and the Department of Homeland Security.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ASTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Astronaut 2007Summary: Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MATSummary: A restless wanderer is bound by a promise to watch after the widow of a dying friend. His vow leads him to a small town terrorized by a saloon owner and his hired gunman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TNT 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CROSummary: Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 577 Life 2010Summary: "Thousands of earthquakes happen each year and Bill Nye the Science Guy trembles in his boots when he explains what causes them. In Earthquakes, find out what makes big pieces of the Earth's crust (the plates) move and what you should have on hand in case of a quake"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2004
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: A courtoom drama of premeditated murder as a jealous army lieutenant pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his beautiful wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AnSummary: "In Plants, Science Guy Bill Nye branches out and gets to the root of the matter to explain wild things about plants such as how they breathe, make food, defend themselves, and move their seeds around."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Roy Eberhardt has moved with his family so often he literally has lost count of the number of times he has had to changed schools. Roy ought to be used to being the new kid at school by now, but making the switch from Montana to Florida proves to be a major challenge. While Roy quickly becomes the target of school bully, he is befriended by Beatrice Leep, a spunky girl with enough nerve to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: Darby O'Gill and the little people (1959, 91 min., full screen): An old storyteller falls into a well and meets a group of leprechauns. The leprechauns give him three wishes to get his life together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An insightful and fast-moving comic look at the world of network television development, as it goes through the network TV process of casting, production, and finally airing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TVSummary: Thirteen high school students who have elected to spend the 1960-61 academic year on board the American schoolship Albatross learn about sailing and unity from their captain. When they encounter a white squall, a sudden, violent, wind-and-lightning storm, it turns into a test of courage and their will to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1996
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WHISummary: The Galactica, a futuristic aircraft carrier the size of a small city, careens through a distant starfield followed by a convoy of bizarre space vehicles, all fleeing the destruction of the human race. Led by Commander Adama (Lorne Greene), these survivors have started on a journey to a thirteen sister colony in a distant galaxy star system- a planet called Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Leading New Scotland Yard's Murder Review Team has Commander Clare Blake feeling trapped in her office. Eager to get back to investigative work, Blake welcomes a transfer to the Homicide and Serious Crime division, where she's assigned to a slate of difficult cases. Ambitious, imperious, and dedicated, Blake keeps her private life separate from her work, until two deeply personal crimes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COMSummary: "A peep of chickens, a pride of lions, a gaggle of geese, and a crowd of people. What do they all have in common? They're populations! In Populations, Bill Nye explores how these living groups compete for food, homes, and space"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: "They're (sometimes) big, they're hairy, and they're warm-blooded. From human beings to moose and from cats to rats, Bill Nye the Science Guy explains in Mammals what it takes to be in the mammal family"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: "Bill Nye radiates in this sizzling episode called Heat. Learn what heat is and about its three forms: conduction, convection, and radiation."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2009Summary: Jenna makes a wish on her 13th birthday to be 30 and grown up. When she wakes up the next day she finds herself, miraculously, just weeks away from her 30th birthday. The new, older Jenna is a successful magazine editor with friends in high places and a lion's share of potential suitors. The problem is that her mind hasn't matured with her body and Jenna finds it a little more terrifying than...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 13Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THI RATED PG-13Summary: A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998