Summary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUSummary: His personal journey changed the European understanding of the world forever. This is the absorbing true story of Venetian explorer Marco Polo's arduous trek to the East, and beyond. Literally, it's the adventure of a lifetime. Sent on a mission to accompany two priests to China with the goal of converting Kublai Khan and his court to Christianity, Marco Polo finds himself left to carry on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRUSummary: Aging actress Irina visits the country estate where her brother Sorin and her son Konstantin reside. She brings her lover Boris, a successful novelist. The estate teems with desire, jealousy and angst. The estate manager's daughter Masha is in love with Konstantin, who is in love with the sweet neighbor Nina, who is in love with Boris. Boris casually uses and discards Nina while Irina...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2018
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEASummary: In First blood, an ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam is searching for peace, but finds instead an overzealous, small town sheriff who's spoiling for a fight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAMSummary: Ned is a loving husband and devoted father dealing with life's curveballs. He's got a stressed-out wife, an independent teenage son, and an embittered father-in-law who's turning his home upside down. Ned's job writing a scandalous TV series for a demanding boss is unfulfilling, and late night rewrites with a sexy co-worker might just push him over the deep end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EVESummary: A mentally unstable Vietnam vet has a one-man war with the police force of a small town after they abuse him. Includes a never-before-seen alternate suicide ending, deleted scenes and commentary with Sylvester Stallone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FIRSummary: Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEX RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NEXSummary: Set in Australia's Victoria Alps, tells the story of a stormy romance caught up in a violent feud between landowners.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Return 2003Summary: "When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
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 CoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CocoonCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI COCSummary: 10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Everyone'sSummary: Gorky Park opens with the discovery of three mutilated bodies buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GORSummary: Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PRESummary: "Get ready for some horse-ridin', gun-totin', whiskey-drinkin' fun"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WESTERN SILSummary: Turk and Rooster are two aging NYPD detectives who have been partners for 30 years. They are faced with a serial killer who is murdering other sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues. They start working with Perez and Riley, a younger team. Tensions between the pairs of partners is inevitable, especially since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend. She also happens to be a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER RIGSummary: Party animal Tommy Callahan is definitely a few cans short of a six-pack. But after seven years, Tommy's finally earned his diploma -- and a cushy job at Callahan Auto Parts. Returning home, Tommy gets some more great news: his dad is marrying a real "10," and Tommy will get the stepbrother he always wanted. But as fast as you can say "Who killed the keg?," the family business starts tanking....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOMCall number: DVD TOM
Summary: A modern adaptation of the classic love story, moved to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RoSummary: This biography explores whether Americans should celebrate Jackson or apologize for him. The program reveals the world of America's 7th president, who founded the Democratic Party, yet was viewed by his enemies as an American Napoleon. The film contains reenactments, lithographs, letters and the insights of distinguished scholars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ANDSummary: "Experience the early adventures of Gus and Call - young, bold Texas Rangers whose tough exteriors are challenged by the vicious fighting amongst three warring cultures within their region. Follow their journey through barren deserts, snowy mountainous terrain and dangerous attacks that will begin to transform them into the heroes they will soon become."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN DEASummary: A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019