Summary: This crime thriller follows presumed-dead former CIA agent, John Reese, who teams up with mysterious billionaire Harold Finch to prevent violent crimes with high-tech surveillance and their own brand of vigilante justice. With Finch missing, Reese enlists Detectives Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco to join the search for his friend. Will Reese and his team find Finch before it₂s too late? Who will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERSummary: In season five, the cold war is over. The world around us might look the same, but something has drastically changed. Samaritan's lethal correction has initiated its control. Finch's Machine is essentially dead. Shaw is still missing. And the team is once again hiding in plain sight. But with Samaritan's invisible grip tightening everywhere, will Finch be able to rebuild and resurrect The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERSummary: The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNO RATED RSummary: Although they've saved countless lives thanks to The Machine's omniscience, Reese and Finch, along with lethal operative Shaw, and unpredictable cyber-hacker Root, now face an uncertain future. With a second machine, Samaritan, now online, the elusive team now find themselves as targets, hiding in plain sight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERSummary: A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CACSummary: Set in East Berlin in 1984, a secret service agent assigned to monitor a playwright and his girlfriend begins to question his assignment and his loyalty to the government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPSummary: One of the preeminent works of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui's shattering look at the circumstances that drove Vietnamese refugees to flee their homeland in the wake of the Vietnam War is told through images of haunting, unforgettable power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jason is an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics. He makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan; an enigmatic and skillful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAISummary: An undercover policeman infiltrates a major drug ring and works his way to the position of heir apparent. When the leader of the syndicate becomes ill, the lure of power and money cause him to question his true identity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROSummary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017