Summary: Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD LittleSummary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOSummary: In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2013
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MISSummary: When his spaceship crash-lands on the barren wastelands of Mars, U.S. astronaut Commander "Kit" Draper must fight for survival, with a pet monkey his only companion until he meets "Friday," an alien.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CARSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD MulanGathegi, Edi
Summary: Set in the year 2016 individualists Dagny Taggart and Henry Rearden may have the power to spark a revolution in America in the midst of an economic disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ATL RATED PG-13Summary: In 1888 London's Whitechapel slums, poor women like Mary Kelly and her friends walk the streets for a living. When the streetwalkers begin to be murdered one by one, it attracts the attention of Inspector Abberline, who takes a personal interest in the case, and Mary Kelly. Now he must use his psychic abilities to stop the most notorious serial killer in history -- Jack the Ripper -- before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It is the Middle Ages, and nothing is more feared in England than Viking warriors. In one of many raids, Viking leader Ragnar kills the English king and forces himself on the Queen. With the King dead, his brother takes the thrown but unknown to anyone but a trusted servant, the Queen is now with child. In order to protect the boy, he is sent away to be raised in safety away from the new King....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VIKSummary: The summer after Ana's high school graduation is a turning point in her life. She has to decide whether to go to college and experience life, or stay home, get married and work at her sister's struggling garment factory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REASummary: Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get ahold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ONECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD Movie 101Summary: Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNISummary: The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WITSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NIGSummary: The girl with the dragon tattoo: A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing, or dead, for forty years by a young female hacker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: In Treasure Town, life can be both gentle and brutal. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White, two street urchins who watch over the city, doing battle with an array of old-world Yakuza and alien assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis. When foreign investors want to destroy the town and turn it to an amusement park, they face their greatest adversaries yet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEKBell, Kristen
Summary: A princess sets out on a journey to find another missing princess, and save the kingdom from eternal winter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2014
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRO RATED PGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF FrPantoliano, Joe
Summary: A burned-out business executive from Toronto travels back to his family farm in rural Italy to reconnect with his roots and find new meaning in life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2020