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Bancroft, AnneSummary: This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Far 2015Summary: Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUFSummary: 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 MYSummary: Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAF RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CAFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cafe 2016Summary: A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Dunkirk 2017Summary: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA DUNSummary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISSummary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jared Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIG RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BiCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FINSummary: See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: the Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SINSummary: After taking in her medical school colleague, who has become invisible, a widow witnesses his gradual descent into madness. As he schemes to unleash a reign of terror and murder, she must find a way to stop him from wreaking havoc across the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity Creative 2023
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Summary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia to confront its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EAGSummary: Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MANSummary: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHESummary: Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Suffragette 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUF RATED PG13Summary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Issac) is at a crossroads and struggling to make is as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles- some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the baskethouses of Greenwich Village...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSBancroft, Anne
Summary: Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a deformed man, who is discovered by a dedicated surgeon and is given a chance to live his last years in comfort rather than as a circus freak.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELESummary: Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOUSummary: A 1950s housewife living with her husband in an idealistic experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding troubling secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022