Summary: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COCCopies Available at Peninsula
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COCSummary: The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIVSummary: The Addams family: Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADDSummary: Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DieSummary: A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLISummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVFlorez, Juan Diego
Summary: Count Almaviva, in love with Rosina, the ward of Dr. Bartolo, succeeds, with the help of the barber, Figaro, in defeating the doctor's attempts to separate the lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BARSummary: Fellini recreates the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome and its lack of concern with human dignity and obsession with perverse sex. The film is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FELCowell, Maisie
Summary: Follows the adventures of Charlie and his imaginative little sister, Lola.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CHAStewart, James
Summary: The story of Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic ocean.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPISummary: Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday CSummary: Domestic disturbance: A divorced father discovers that his 11-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be. The father's investigation into the man's past explodes into a terrifying mission to rescue his son from danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TRASummary: When rock star Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss on The Ed Sullivan show.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BYESummary: A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devestating effects of alcoholism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOSSummary: Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Peninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COL RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cold 2004Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE COLSummary: When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRESummary: In the streets of New York City, Oliver, an orphaned kitten, is befriended by Dodger, a carefree mutt, and his band of streetwise dogs. Together they try to avoid the evil Sykes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV OLISummary: Sing: When an eternally optimistic koala puts on a singing competition to save his failing theater, animals across the city gather to step into the spotlight and chase their dreams! Sing 2: In the sequel, can-do koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast of animal performers prepare to launch a dazzling stage extravaganza in the glittering entertainment capital of the world. There's just one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022