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: When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAV RATED PG-13

Summary: Follow the exploits of Paul Pennyfeather, whose unfair expulsion from Oxford kick-starts a disastrous series of events, wherein he is by turn a naive teacher, a celebrity bridegroom, a wanted fugitive, and an international white slave-trader.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017

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

Summary: Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by a right-wing group, college professor Michael Faraday becomes obsessed with the culture of thise groups--expecially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang, start acting suspiciously.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ARL

Summary: It all starts with a meteorite falling to earth near Glen Canyon, Arizona. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College go to investigate. While taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid oozing from the meteorite. Kane finds myriad single-celled life-forms in the fluid, evolving at an incredible rate, even while he's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2001

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

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

Summary: Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEA

Summary: Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HIS

Summary: When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher. Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011

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Summary: Samantha just wants a normal school experience away from her parents. The problem is her dad is the President of the United States! She heads off to college with Secret Service in tow and falls for a boy with secrets of his own.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: John Farley grew up as a chubby kid with no athletic skills and poor self-esteem. During his early teenage years his nemesis was Mr. Woodcock, the school's gym teacher. Woodcock took a sadistic glee in tormenting John and others like him. Years later, John has slimmed down and has come to terms with his self-image. He has become a best-selling author, publishing a self-help book on overcoming...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.

Summary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Into 2007

Summary: When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003

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

Summary: To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NUT

Summary: With promises of a reduced sentence, Jake Shuttlesworth is granted temporary release from state prison in order to persuade the nation's top college basketball recruit, his estranged son Jesus, to play ball for the Governor's alma mater! Includes theatrical trailer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1998

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

Summary: A shy British school master named Mr. Chipping devotes his life to teaching "his boys" after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine. Told via flashbacks, the film features an aged Mr. Chipping looking back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who've touched his life over the years.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

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: A popular high school teacher is determined to de-rail an over-achieving student's obsessive campaign to be elected student body president.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELE

Summary: A college student on his own for the first time learns about the passion of love and life from two new friends.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Hone Entertainment 1994

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STR

Summary: In the wealthy, seaside community of Neptune, California, the rich and powerful make the rules. Unfortunately for them, there's Veronica Mars, a smart, fearless 17-year-old apprentice private investigator solving the town's toughest mysteries.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VER

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VER

Summary: Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INT RATED R

Summary: Serious and hard-working Harvard Law School student Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes the fearful adversary of Kingsfield, the school's most imperious, witheringly sarcastic yet brilliant professor. Terrorizing some, inspiring others, the professor easily separates the men from the boys by the time the term is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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