Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOI

Summary: When terrorists and the UN work together to take down the United States' power grid, martial law is declared and a group of Texas patriots band together to fight back.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...

Format: moving image

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

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAI

Summary: 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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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NIG

Summary: When a ship carrying two thousand humans setting out to colonize a distant planet encounters a system failure, they land on a moon and discover a race of hostile aliens.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ALI

Summary: A group of women decides to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOM

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

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bombshell 2020

Summary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SIL

Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRE

Summary: "Capped by one of the most famous speeches ever written, Shakespeare's Henry V recalls a truly great English victory. With comic sub-plots to be found among Henry's soldiers, the production boasts some terrific performances - including Sam Cox as the 'splendidly unhinged' Pistol (The Daily Telegraph). In the title role is Jamie Parker, who 'casts such a rapt spell that you feel the entire...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2013

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

Summary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008

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

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

Summary: Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician, and chocolate maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WON

Fimmel, Travis

Summary: With his life full of uncertainty, fifteen-year-old Charley finds comfort working with horses at the local racetrack, becoming attached to a losing racehorse named Lean On Pete.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2018

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

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

Summary: A modern-day movie musical about the making of a network TV special, Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas is the frenetic backstage story and delightful on-camera results of Dolly's desire to uplift an exhausted world's spirits by sharing the unique "mountain magic" she has always found in and around Dollywood at Christmas. Throughout the movie's production numbers and rehearsal chaos, Dolly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DOL
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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

Hanks, Tom

Summary: In the aftermath of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an elderly widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Wichita Falls back to her family in San Antonio.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NEW

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

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

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

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

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

Summary: With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PIA

Summary: "It is the 21st century and society's lust for violence is satisfied by 'The big hunt', an international game of legalized murder. But when the sport's two top assassins are pitted against each other, they find that love is the most dangerous game of all. As the world watchers, the hunt is on. Who will become the 10th victim"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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

Summary: Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed, perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Five 1998

Summary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW
1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW

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

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

Summary: A gripping, stylish thriller that reveals the true story of one of the largest robberies in US history. While doing time for a botched heist, two small-time crooks cook up an ill-fated scheme to rip off a nearby vault for $30 million, money that belongs to the local Mafia!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VAU

Summary: Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

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

Summary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between twenty-something sisters: button-down, superstitious Kay and the rampaging 'Sweetie.'

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SWE