Summary: A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WindtalkersSummary: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Cheaper 2003Summary: Samantha just wants a normal school experience away from her parents. The problem is her dad is the President of the United States! She heads off to college with Secret Service in tow and falls for a boy with secrets of his own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIRSummary: Dogs are an alien species sent to earth thousands of years ago to spy on humans. But when the spies stop reporting back to the home planet, Canid 3942 is sent to earth to investigate. Once there, Canid 3942 encounters Owen, a young boy who runs a dog-walking service. Owen befriends the space-dog, renaming him Hubble. When it becomes obvious that the dogs of earth have forgotten their mission,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOOSummary: A young society woman's love for a common journalist presents her with an impossible decision: leave him or marry and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist when she befriends a lonely young heiress whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible but dangerous solution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WINSummary: His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: A church organist inexplicably survives a car wreck, and finds herself haunted by visions of ghouls who seem to be following her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CARSummary: Artemisia Gentileschi is forbidden to fully pursue her own passion of painting. She convices a renowned artist to tutor her. He not only liberates her into the world of art but initiates her into the world of sex and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARTSummary: Young Florya willing joins the Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR during World War II. Seperated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya, in the company of peasant girl, Glascha, wanders the battle-scorched Russian prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. He witnesses an SS unit's spontaneous, self-congratulatory appause at their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: Professor Klump finds romance with a lovely fellow geneticist. When his alter ego Buddy Love breaks out and threatens trouble, its up to the rest of the hefty Klump family to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NUTSummary: The legendary "daywalker" Blade must join forces with a high-powered team of vampires to take on a fearsome threat more deadly than either has seen before. These unlikely allies must stop a race of super-vampires intent on destroying everyone in their path - human or vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BLASummary: A popular high school basketball star and a shy, academically gifted newcomer secretly decide to audition for their school's musical, a decision that turns their world and their school upsidedown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Francis Barrett grew up in a cluttered trailer park among a group of poor gypsies, who are scorned by Irish society. Against all odds, Francis participates in the 1996 Olympics and represents Ireland. An unflinching tribute to an unlikely hero who is a boxing champion and national hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUSummary: A tale of a psychopathic self-styled preacher, who marries and murders a young widow for her money, pursues her children to get his hand on it, only to meet his match in the form of a saintly farm woman, who becomes the children's protector.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGSummary: A successful middle-aged ad executive suddenly find himself working for a young hotshot half his age, who also develops a romantic interest in his daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INSummary: A trio of British Muslims, known as the Tipton Three, were held in Guantánamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROASummary: Amateur philosopher Dex and his friends live by a code which virtually guarantees scoring with the ladies; but when Dex meets up with old college fling Syd, the rules he lived by no longer apply.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAOSummary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARSummary: When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggression into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIGSummary: All 25 uncut episodes of the third season of Friends including never-before-seen footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003