Summary: The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2005

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

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

Summary: Set in the glamour of the 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of the British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Phantom 2018

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

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

Summary: Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths--Johnny, a working-class white, and Omar, a Pakistani. Together they operate a laundrette, which Omar inherits from his uncle. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Jonathan, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, is the ungainly, neglected eldest son of a family living in the Black Country. His younger brother Harold is everything he is not. Despite the favoritism shown to Harold, the two boys build a close friendship that lasts a lifetime and ends in tragedy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2013

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

Summary: In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, a young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 1998

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie In 1998

Summary: A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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

Summary: A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2013

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

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lincoln 2013

Summary: When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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

Summary: The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999

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

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

Summary: A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC THE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie There 2008

Summary: Set in Czechoslovakia in the 1960's, the story revolves around a young doctor who has a way with women and an aversion to politics. He suddenly finds himself caught up in his country's political turmoil and in a crisis of commitment with the women in his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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

Summary: With only a week left before shooting begins on the filming of his latest movie, world famous film director Guido Contini is desperately searching for a way to overcome his creative block. Escaping to a seaside resort, he attempts to restore the equilibrium to his personal and professional existence by drawing inspiration from the women in his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIN