Summary: When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into reset by going back to college, landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna, now Dee Rock, embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2018

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

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

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

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

Summary: In Miri Matteson's first few weeks out after an eighteen-year stint behind bars for murder, the mystery of her past looms large in her insular small hometown. Life post-prison is not going to be easy. Her attempts to kickstart a new life fall flat, and while her parents try to be supportive, they are having troubles of their own. Will Miri find redemption, or is she doomed to be a middle-aged...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BAC

Summary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Motherless 2020

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: King Henry, now in failing health and still embroiled in war, sends his second son Prince John of Lancaster to the battle. Prince John tricks and defeats the enemy while his older son, the Prince of Wales, is summoned away from Falstaff and his tavern circle to the king's bedside where he assumes the throne upon the death of the king.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1987

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

Summary: A dramatization of William Shakespeare's historical play. Upon the murder of Richard II, Henry assumes the throne, and is immediately confronted with rebellion by Owen Glendower, Douglas of Scotland, Northumberland and his son Hotspur. The play also treats the moral development of the king's son Hal (later Henry V).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1979

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

Summary: The four Pevensie children - Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy - return to Narnia, only to discover that hundreds of years have passed since they ruled there. Now, crowning himself king, the evil General Miraz has taken charge. The children enlist the help of a heroic mouse called Reepicheep. They set out find the exiled Prince Caspian, determined to see him rightfully named king.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008

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

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

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

Dafoe, Willem

Summary: A biography of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2019

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

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

Dafoe, Willem

Summary: Set in the late 19th century, follows two lighthouse keepers stranded on an isolated island due to a storm and gradually going insane.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIG

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

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

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Contents: Part One: lecture 1. Shakepeare's wavelengths -- lect. 2. The multiple actions of A midsummer night's dream -- lect. 3. The form of Shakespear's sonnets -- lect. 4. Love in Shakespeare's sonnets -- lect. 5. Love and artifice in Love's labor's lost, and Much ado about nothing -- lect. 6. As you like it -- lect. 7. The battles of Henry VI -- lect. 8. Richard III and the renaissance -- Part Two:...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1995

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHA
Call number: DVD 822.33 SHA PART 1
Call number: DVD 822.33 SHA PART 2

Williams, Esther.

Summary: Cynthia must choose between her wealthy husband and the soldier she loves; Maria steps in for her twin brother when he abandons the bullfighting ring; a singing soldier abandons his pre-war life for love; an Ohio schoolteacher falls in love with a Tahitian girl; Williams portrays Australian swimmer and film star Annette Kellerman; swimming star Julie Hallerton falls in love with her boss who is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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

Summary: This 1953 classic spotlights the careers of W.S. Gilbert (Robert Morley, The African Queen), a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans, Planet Of The Apes), a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STO

LaSalle, Lillian

Summary: Looks at the career of unconventional educator Pedro Santana.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MY

Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: Combines elements of analysis, history, biography, performance, and the personal passions of six presenters to tell the stories behind the stories of six Shakespeare plays. Includes interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from celebrated film and television adaptations; and illustrative excerpts from performances staged at Shakespeare's Globe in London...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHA

Summary: Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUC
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MUC

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

Summary: Step inside 'the Castle,' a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife. A colleague with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks to comfort the wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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

Summary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAN

Summary: In the year 2035, Cole travels into the past to retrieve samples of a virus that has devastated Earth's people in the hope that a cure can be designed. In his search for the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, a radical group linked to the virus, Cole meets a psychiatrist and a mental patient.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TWE

Summary: A scheming raccoon tricks a family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food by invading the new suburban sprawl that arrived while they were hibernating.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2006

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

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

Summary: A young student makes a false accusation against her teachers and upsets the lives of all involved.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Regina Giddens is a woman who will stop at nothing to outwit her brothers in running the family business, even if it means sacrificing the health of her husband or the love of her young daughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998

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