Summary: A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: The notorious Pepe le Moko is a wanted man--women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police until a Parisian playgirl compels him
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEPSummary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVSummary: Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STASummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SNO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SNO
Summary: Elliot and Boog find themselves on another adventure. After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the alter takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners. Boog, Elliot, McSquizzy, Buddy and the rest of the woodland creatures launch a full-scale rescue mission for their sausage-shaped friend and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY OPECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OPE RATED PGDavid, Keith
Summary: A young man with a wealthy fiancaee and a pregnant ex-girlfriend must decide on his future while being the caretaker for a wealthy older man who is nearing death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ripple Effect Productions 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRESummary: "Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt. Soon the three are in for the ride of their lives as they cross the blistering North African terrain, pitting thier skills against ruthless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SAHSummary: When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. They then embark on a trip to find his father whom he has never met.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CENSummary: An intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard's fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Claude Lorius encountered his destiny at age 23 in the Antarctic. The film retraces his life's journey, from his first steps as a young glaciologist to the crowning moment of his glittering career, winning the Blue Planet Prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ANTSummary: Peyton and Alex become best friends after meeting at the hospital where both of their mothers died of cancer. After visiting a pet store and realizing that their dream of owning a dog is beyond their family's financial reach, the girls hatch a plan to get their own puppies, do a good deed and Santa will bring them each one!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PROSummary: Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss to her friends and family. When she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJE Films 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUASummary: The "true story" of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BLACKBERRY is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLASummary: Open season: A performing grizzly bear named Boog, who has been domesticated by a park ranger, Beth, helps deer friend Elliot escape from the mullet-sporting hunter, Shaw. When the two animals escape to the forest they become lost - just as hunting season begins. To make the situation worse, Boog doesn't know how to survive outside of his beloved ranch. Elliott and Boog develop a strong bond...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OPESummary: "Before Mickey, there was Oswald, the floppy-eared star of Walt Disney's first cartoon series. Disney created a bounty of legendary and rarely seen Oswald cartoons between 1927 and 1928 presented in this definitive collection of shorts."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LON RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoSummary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTSummary: The heroic life story of rodeo legend Lane Frost, the bull-riding champion who fights to achieve his childhood dreams--both in and out of the rodeo ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 8Summary: Betty is a best selling novelist who has invented her name to escape a troubled past made worse by her emotionally unstable and violent mother. When her young son is killed in an accident, her mother brings her a "replacement", a boy she kidnapped off the street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007