Summary: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SENSummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HE RATED PG-13Summary: Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHASummary: The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIO RATED PG 13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lion 2017Summary: The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOBSummary: Explore the relationships between the writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, and his wife June in Paris 1931.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The "true story" of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BLACKBERRY is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: In a continuous monologue, former death-row inmate Nick Yarris tells the story of how he was charged with the murder of a woman in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, sentenced to death, and, after twenty-one years behind bars, exhonerated based on DNA evidence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FEASummary: A talented college gymnast with Olympic dreams is changed when he meets a mysterious stranger named Socrates who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. The gymnast suffers a serious injury, but with the help of Socrates and an elusive young woman, he discovers that he has much to learn and even more to leave behind before he can become a peaceful warrior and find...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PEASummary: A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QUESummary: Although we pass by people constantly during our everyday lives, some interactions make a much bigger impression than others. For one young man, a run-in with outlaw Billy the Kid will end up defining the rest of his life. Of course, it's not a normal day in Billy's life either. Facing off with Sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy will soon discover whether or not he can live up to his own bold legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KIDDavis, Miles
Summary: Examines the life of Miles Davis through his music, home movies, and his manuscripts and paintings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MILSummary: As global Cold War tensions mount and organized crime escalates in the U.S., a young, ambitious man from a wealthy family rises to become the leader of the free world. At the same time, a former dedicated Marine grows disillusioned with America. When their paths ultimately cross, the course of U.S. history will forever change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KiSummary: Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC BENCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BENSummary: Follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother, Gail, to convince his billionaire grandfather to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son's captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son's life in the balance, Gail and Getty Sr.'s adviser become unlikely allies in the race against...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALLSummary: In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILSummary: Revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. The harsh Irish landscape combined with the myths, fables, and songs of his Connemara youth helped shape this fascinating character. Enigmatic and complex, Heaney's devotion to his art came at a huge personal cost. But by the time of his death in 1984, he was widely recognized as one of the most important figures in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SONSummary: Thirty-two vignettes, spanning pianist Glenn Gould's life from age four until his death at fifty, give an impressionistic depiction of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOS RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSSummary: The Baby Carriage: Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague-inspired energy, Bo Widerberg's feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism's call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015