Summary: After their mother is burned at the stake for withchcraft, Margit and her sister, Katla, flee across Iceland. Reaching a remote farm, Katla casts a spell on its young widower, Johann, and soon the two are wed, to the dismay of his suspicious son, Jonas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JUNSummary: A truly inspiring story of one ordinary family's extraordinary journey. An orphaned boy named Tomas is adopted by Maire O'Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomas as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SHISummary: In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAGSummary: Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Okinawa 1946, occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge, Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford), is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily Okinawan interpreter, Sakini (Marlon Brando), and a determined geisha girl, Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo), along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEASummary: Inspired by the true story of Dublin crime reporter Veronica Guerin. This is about an Irish journalist who investigates the world of violent crime and the bosses who control the drugs and the violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WHESummary: Garfield's owner, Jon, takes in sweet, but dimwitted pooch Odie, turning Garfield's perfect world upside-down. Now Garfield wants only one thing: Odie out of his home and his life! But when the hapless pup disappears and is kidnapped by a nasty dog trainer, Garfield, feeling responsible, tears himself away from the TV and springs into action.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DieSummary: Domestic disturbance: A divorced father discovers that his 11-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be. The father's investigation into the man's past explodes into a terrifying mission to rescue his son from danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TRASummary: William Franklin arrives at St. Judes, the only lay teacher among a staff of Catholic brothers. He is quick to realise that his teaching methods are opposed to those of the brothers. He succeeds in building a trusting relationship with the boys, which enables him to unlock their hidden talents and open their minds to the beauty of poetry. When two boys are severely beaten it is more than...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TVA Films 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: At the height of the frontier era, a locomotive races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote Army Post. But one by one, the passengers are being murdered. Their only hope is John Deakin, a mysterious prisoner-in-transit who must fight for his life -- and the lives of everyone on the train -- as he uncovers a deadly secret that explodes in a torrent of shocking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BRESummary: Harry, his best friend Tyrone, his girlfriend Marion, and his mother all struggle with drug addiction against a backdrop of the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REQSummary: Broken Trail: An aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures 2017
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLASummary: The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer, the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIESummary: Curious case of Benjamin Button : Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 4FIScott, Jordan
Summary: "A girl grows up visiting Snæfellsjökull, the glacier near her home, but when preteen life throws her off-center she must reconnect with her icy old friend"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCOSummary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrapesSummary: An eccentric society girl with an equally eccentric family hires a tramp as a butler, who then teaches her that money isn't everything.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MySummary: Crocodile Dundee: A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test -- a trip to New York City. Crocodile Dundee II: Continuing the adventures of the eccentric Australian, Crocodile Dundee, he and his beautiful girlfriend are threatened by a ruthless gang of drug...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CROSummary: FBI agent Will Graham captured the diabolical Dr. Hannibal Lecter but nearly lost his mind in the process and retired from the Bureau. When he is coaxed out of retirement to hunt a serial killer called "The Tooth Fairy" he is again faced with the horrors incumbent in entering a serial killer's mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A magical board game serves as a door to another dimension in this adventure fantasy. When a pair of orphans discover the game and start playing it they unwittingly unleash a man who's been trapped inside, as well as an array of stampeding jungle animals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JUMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JUMSummary: The '20s never roared louder than in this sumptuously romantic retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic. Robert Redford stars as Jay Gatsby, who had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), then lost her to a rich boy. But now Gatsby is mysteriously wealthy...and ready to risk everything to woo Daisy back"--Container insert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012