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 SOU

Summary: Despite their hardships, five sisters living in rural Ireland in 1936 are able to embrace life and all its complexities and dance with joy in their hearts.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAN

Summary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD B

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEC

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEC

Summary: Calvary's Father James is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral, and often comic, problems, he feels sinister and troubling forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CAL

Summary: An offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying band mate Clara.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRA

Summary: "A close-knit team of six young men sailed away from Ireland in 1977 with dreams of a better life. Thirty years later, they reunite at the wake after one of them suddenly dies. Hardened by years of disappointment and drink, they quickly realize that their bonds of friendship have weakened, provoking regret, jealousy and tension. As they reveal their guilty feelings about their dead friend and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KIN

Summary: It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the immiment war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MY

Summary: Tells the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OND

Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Summary: The story of the relationship between a young father and his infant son after the death of the boy's mother.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE END

Summary: The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOB

Summary: Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists. Zia discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that Desiree has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WRI

Summary: Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lions 2008