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Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Film and video adaptations Dopa Therapeutic use Case studies Drama England Social life and customs 19th century Drama Indictments Drama Man-woman relationships Drama New England Social life and customs 19th century Drama Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949 Drama Sisters England Drama Trials (Crimes against humanity) Drama Voyages and travels DramaFilter By Subjects
Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Film and video adaptations Dopa Therapeutic use Case studies Drama England Social life and customs 19th century Drama Indictments Drama Man-woman relationships Drama New England Social life and customs 19th century Drama Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949 Drama Sisters England Drama Trials (Crimes against humanity) Drama Voyages and travels DramaSummary: A Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, meet in the summer of 1963 sheep herding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond--by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BROSummary: An uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs, and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOUSummary: In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? A classic story told with a Bollywood twist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BrideSummary: Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OTHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Other 2008Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OTH RATED PG-13Summary: Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AWASummary: Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEN RATED PGSummary: In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RACSummary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFSummary: The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PRI NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Pride 2001Summary: Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Crouching 2000Summary: Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree. Based loosely on the '50s killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BADCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: An insecure talk-radio psychologist who specializes vicariously in sex therapy confronts life first-hand when she becomes involved in the affairs of two of her clients.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHOSummary: A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bridge 2000Summary: Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SORSummary: Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A harried househusband and a rising business executive encounter one problem after another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mentally-challenged Pauline is obsessed with pretty flowers and her glamorous sister Paulette. When Pauline's caretaker-sister Martha dies suddenly, Pauline has to move in with her sister Paulette, and proceeds to interfere with the day-to-day running of Paulette's lingerie shop and her double life as an opera singer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAUSummary: David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2005Summary: Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a girl with similar fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001