Summary: After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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

Summary: Follows the trials and tribulations of a busload of tourists who get stranded in an abandoned mining town in the middle of the African desert. After a fine bout of partying, they fall prey to the heat, isolation, and fear of death that pushes them to the extremes of introspection and emotional exploration. And in a beautifully futile gesture, they begin to rehearse a production of Shakespeare's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: Burt and Verona are a loving couple. Burt has always wanted to marry Verona, but Verona resists, not seeing the point of the institution. Regardless, they are having a baby together and question their potential parenting abilities. They decide to move closer to Burt's parents so they can share the experience with the baby's grandparents. In Verona's sixth month, she and Burt learn that his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: Story about a Hamburg picture framer who is perfectly ordinary except that he is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His peace and sanity are upset when he is offered money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment [distributor] 2006

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

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

Summary: Paul Kersey, a bleeding-heart liberal, becomes a one-man vigilante after his wife and daughter are violently attacked and raped by a gang of thugs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DEA

Summary: Epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attack on the naval base.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001

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

Summary: A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE POS

Summary: Ivy is a twenty-year-old college student home for spring break. She's excited about a developing romance back at school and life is seemingly perfect. Her longtime friend finds himself looking for a place to stay, so Ivy and her mom take him in. Al and Ivy's friendship strengthens while her boyfriend grows more and more distant. An exquisite portrait of a young girl coming of age and finding a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2010

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXP

Summary: When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie State 2009

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

Summary: Hans, a fruit peddler, watches his unexceptional life disintegrate. Seduced and rejected to the point of a nervous breakdown, Hans drinks himself to death as he toasts his loved ones at the dinner table.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002

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

Summary: Sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," and her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003

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

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

Summary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003

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

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

Summary: 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

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SOR

Summary: After a terrible car accident involving his family, 12-year-old Mark is sent to live with his strict aunt Fiona on a beautiful and remote island. Isolated from most of the world, Fiona and a park ranger are the only humans on the island which is home to a herd of wild horses. Mark must follow the rules, including the fact he is forbidden to touch the horses. But when the mother of a young colt...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2004

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

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

Summary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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

Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001

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

Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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

Summary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blosssoms into full womanhood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures Corp. 2005

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE RAI

Summary: Based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIN
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WIN