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: The Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by patriarch George whose fortune came from the tract home development business. Oldest son George, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues. Youngest son, Buster, wastes his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay is a vain socialite. The only...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ARR

Summary: The very laws of science are called into question when William Foster, a neuroscientist, seeks to bring back his dead family members. A car accident takes everyone he loves from him, but the synthetic biologist decides to put all of his scientific knowledge to the test when his grief overwhelms him. If Foster wants to be successful though, he'll have to take on not only scientific...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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

Summary: In 1866, Kansas, the American civil war has just finished and the armies disbanded. The building of the West begins, and in 1872, the new city of Dodge City is ruled by violence and shootings. The Irishman Wade Hatton is a man adapted to these days and presently is conducting a group of pioneers, including Abbie Irving and her reckless brother, to Dodge City. Once in the city, Wade is invited...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN DOD

Summary: Inspired by the global best-selling novel La Reina Del Sur by internationally acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Queen of the South tells the powerful story of Teresa Mendoza, a woman who seeks refuge in America after being forced to run from the Mexican cartel. Eventually rising to power, Teresa now rules over her drug trafficking empire. In Season Five, Teresa finally embraces her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: Jason Bourne, the CIA's most dangerous former operative, now remembers who he truly is and comes out of hiding to uncover more hidden truths about his past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE JAS

Summary: Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Summary: Rebel outlaw Robin Hood outwits the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisbourne, and saves the throne for the absent King Richard I.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Adventures 2010

Summary: A sly, merciless thriller where a best-selling author and therapist wants to help a client by making restitution for the money he owes to a gambler. After she meets the attractive cardsharp, her own compulsions take hold as he lures her into his world of high-stakes deception. Starring Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna, this film is a rich character study told with the cold calculation of a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY HOU

Summary: The Old West where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011

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

Debnam-Carey, Alycia

Summary: A troubled family tries to cope with seeing that a virus is turning people into zombies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2020

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

Summary: Darius Marder's Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SOU

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

Summary: When a ruthless mastermind known as Khan ... declares a one-man war on the Federation, Captain Kirk ..., Spock ..., and the daring crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise will embark on the greatest manhunt in history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie Star

Summary: Welcome to the fairy best café in the Puddlebrook. Help Butterbean and friends on Opening Day in a delicious double-length special. Take a spin in the Sweet Ride, serve up Fluttercakes, help prep Cricket's first menu, and even make lunch for the president. Just watch out for greedy Ms. Marmalady.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BUT

Summary: A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COM

Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Tells the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010

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