Summary: Tales of terror: three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2007

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR VIN

Summary: Ryan is a twenty-something uber-slacker who is nonetheless willing to fall into accidental success. After losing his job the same day he is dumped by his yuppie girlfriend, he gets a dispiriting job with a tacky lottery magazine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Independent Pictures 2007

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

Summary: Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Facing 2006

Summary: 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 E

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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Everyone's

Summary: A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY TIM

Summary: Episode I: In this first episode of the "Star Wars" saga young Anakin Skywalker, a slave with a gift for pod-racing, gains his freedom with help from Queen Amidala's Jedi Knights and then, in turn, helps the Queen defend her planet Naboo from the evil Sith Lords.

Format: moving image

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

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

Summary: Episode I: In this first episode of the "Star Wars" saga young Anakin Skywalker, a slave with a gift for pod-racing, gains his freedom with help from Queen Amidala's Jedi Knights and then, in turn, helps the Queen defend her planet Naboo from the evil Sith Lords.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lucasfilm 2013

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI STA

Summary: Travelers on a trans-European train are put up in a hotel for the night due to bad weather. Shortly after the journey begins in the morning, people begin to disappear. Bonus features include commentary; documentary; essays; and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2007

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

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LAD

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MID

Summary: Rock opera musical version of the last days of Jesus Christ.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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

Summary: Five classic films that offer a rare glimpse at a lost era of provocative filmmaking.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008

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

Summary: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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

Summary: After busting out of jail and on the run, 2 bank robbers devise the perfect crime with imperfect partners. Not wanting to hurt anyone during their robberies, they go to the homes of bank personnel and end up staying the night with the families so that they can all go to the bank in the morning, hence becoming the "sleepover bandits".

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Syriana 2006

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

Summary: Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by familial betrayal and Spain's invading army. She and her shrewd advisor must act to safeguard the lives of her people. When the dashing seafarer, Walter Raleigh, captures her heart, Elizabeth is forced to make her most tragic sacrifice for the good of her country. A tale of one woman's crusade to control her love, destroy her enemies and secure her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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

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

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

Summary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as a night guard. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse has caused the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life.

Format: moving image

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

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Night 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NIG RATED PG

Summary: A Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, meet in the summer of 1963 sheep herding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond--by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006

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

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRO

Summary: Science fiction tales of derring-do, heroism and romance. Set in the future, they relate the adventures of Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo as they battle the forces of the evil Imperial army.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lucasfilm 2013

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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI STA

Summary: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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

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

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 Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHR

Summary: An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of the wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999

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

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