Summary: Television series of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to keep both the streets safe and their self-interests intact. In this season, after scoring big with the money train, the Strike Team plays it cool to avoid arousing suspicion as Dutch and Claudette investigate the robbery and murder of two...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHI

Summary: Lethal weapon: Two Vietnam-vets-turned cops have only one thing in common : they both hate to work with partners, but when a routine murder investigation turns into a no holds barred war with an international heroin ring, their partnership becomes the key to survival.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LET

Summary: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DEN

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Summary: On the tough streets of L.A., detectives wage a daily war on crime. But the cops aren't the only ones with a story to tell. There are the victims, the rescue team, the D.A., the media, even the criminal. Boomtown sees them all.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: NBC Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Peter Gunn is the perfect detective. Handsome, smart, two-fisted and a straight shooter. He has a girlfriend that can melt butter at twenty yards, a network of informants throughout the Los Angeles underworld, and a smokey jazz club to call home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Charlie Crews is an eccentric detective returning to the force after being wrongfully imprisoned. Back on the beat with his determined partner, Dani Reese, and his unusually Zen-like outlook toward the cases he investigates, this unconventional crime solver tries to catch the LA wrongdoers who really belong behind bars.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Jon Baker and Frank Ponch Poncherello have just joined the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in Los Angeles, but for very different reasons. Baker is a beaten-up former pro motorbiker trying to put his life and marriage back together. Poncherello is a cocky undercover Federal agent investigating a multi-million-dollar heist that may be an inside job-inside the CHP.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Summary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: The biggest cases demand the best cops, so when a little girl goes missing or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff or a '90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Sean Archer is a tough and rugged FBI Agent. He is still grieving for his dead son, Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is now his sworn enemy and happens to be the very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. Archer corners Castor. Their fight knocks Troy out cold. Archer finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Cutthroat defense attorney Sebastian Stark has made a career out of bending the rules, manipulating the system, humiliating prosecutors and getting ruthless criminals off the hook. But, with the blood of an innocent woman on his hands, Stark has a change of heart and takes a job with the Los Angeles District Attorney's high-profile crime unit, leading a promising but inexperienced team of young...

Format: moving image

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHA

Summary: Mick St. John is a private investigator 'living' in Los Angeles. Mick's bride turned him into a vampire on the couple's wedding night fifty-five years earlier. In the present day, he struggles with his love for a mortal woman, his dealings with other vampires and other criminal elements.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: A group of lesbian and bisexual women experience life in Los Angeles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: A group of lesbian and bisexual women experience life in Los Angeles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: O2 is an ex-con who is trying to go straight. His life takes a deadly turn when his son gets kidnapped in a carjacking and held for ransom by a ruthless druglord. With a street-smart hustler as his partner and his shady cousin along for the ride, O2 races through the violent streets of Los Angeles in a desperate attempt to outsmart rival gangs and save his son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: The powerful crime drama featuring some of television's favorite characters continues for another gripping season of cases as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Sherman, Casey

Summary: "Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 SHE

Summary: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has an offbeat personality, uses a tough-as-nails approach, and has a track record as one of the country's leading investigators. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensitive nature, is a tenuous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: Lou and Andy are on their way to Disneyland. Trash-talking delinquent Vicky Pollard is being held in a Thai jail on drug smuggling charges and must rely on her mum for help. The British Prime Minister is in Washington, with Sebastian in tow, to buttress his very special relationship with the U.S. President. Carol 'computer says no' Beer has taken a job as a holiday rep in Spain. Marjorie Dawes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

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