Summary: Ponette is a sad little girl. She has survived a car crash that killed her mother and left her with a broken arm. Her father takes to live with an aunt, who has two children roughly her age, explaining to his tearful, disbelieving daughter that her mother is not coming back. Not understanding the finality of death in an adult way, Ponette wonders why if Jesus gets to rise from the dead, why...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PONSummary: An absorbing drama based on the true account of 18th-century doctor Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, played by Truffaut himself in a memorable performance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FRASummary: Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Only a small group of children seem to be immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRSummary: A 12-year orphan boy works for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, undertaking dangerous reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IVASummary: A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WALSummary: Home alone: A wily kid must protect his house from burglars when his family accidentally leaves him behind on Christmas vacation. Home alone 2, lost in New York: When Kevin gets separated from his family at O'Hare airport, he finds himself on a plane to New York City instead of Miami with the rest of his family. The thieves that tried to break into his house last Christmas are planning a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveals their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. But what starts as innocent soon takes a dark and violent turn in this gripping supernatural thriller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR INNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INNCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INNSummary: They're all here: Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Darla, Stymie, Porky and Petey the dog! Through mischief and mayhem, tricks and ingenuity, the rascals team up to bring the whole family lots of wholesome fun.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: Chaos and hilarity ensure after an old-fashioned fire superintendent and his crew find themselves in over their heads while attempting to babysit the three lively and unpredictable young children they rescued from a burning house.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PLASummary: "Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat -- or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real." --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI FRESummary: Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSummary: From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har'el brings to life a young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalising his childhood's ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har'el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: No stones in slingshots. No skirmishes too late in the day. They're rules of war for the youngsters of two neighboring Irish villages. And here's another rule: if you spit-shake on something, you better follow through. Kids will be kids. But sometimes they, in their own fanciful ways, will be adults. It's a winning tale in which buttons are the spoils of a would-be war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WARSummary: A hauntingly atmospheric and star-studded adaptation of Henry James' classic gothic horror story. A young, inexperienced governess is hired to look after two small children abandoned by their uncle, following the death of their parents, at his grand country house. Unsettled by glimpses of ghostly figures that only she can see, she quickly believes that something malevolent is stalking the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHOSummary: At Grace Field House, life couldn't be better for the orphans! Though they have no parents, together with the other kids and a kind 'Mama' who cares for them, they form one big, happy family. No child is ever overlooked, especially since they are all adopted by the age of 12. Their daily lives involve rigorous tests, but afterwards, they are allowed to play outside.There is only one rule they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME PROSummary: Julien, an ornery butterfly collector, is adopted as a surrogate grandfather by eight-year-old Elsa, who moves into the next-door apartment with her often-absent mother. When Julien hikes into the Alps in search of the exotic and elusive "Isabella" butterfly, he finds that Elsa has come along as an uninvited companion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004