Summary: Queen Elizabeth I must learn to weigh her counsel carefully and ignore her private yearnings if she is to keep her crown--and her head. A thriller of intrigue in the court of one of history's greatest monarchs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Video 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELISummary: In Season Five of the Handmaid's Tale, June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead's influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise to power. June, Lucke, and Moira fight Gilead from a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANSummary: Six celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays, revealing not just the elements in the play, but the history of the play itself. What sparked the creation of each of these works? Where did Shakespeare get his plots, and what cultural, political and religious factors influenced his writing? Why has this body of work endured so thoroughly? What, in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHASummary: After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUNSummary: Handmaid June finds herself once again in resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead after opting not to flee to Canada with her baby at the end of the second season. Now, she will struggle to strike back against the regime despite overwhelming odds. This season there are startling reunions, betrayals and a journey to the terrifying heart of Gilead that will force all of the characters to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ha 3Summary: A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HAN NOT RATEDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ha 1Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Handmaid's 2018Summary: In a dystopic future where a religion-based autocracy rules the country, women are second class citizens and after attempting to escape, June is sentenced to be a handmaid whose role is to bear children for childless government officials.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HANCopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANSummary: Based on the true story of WWII Russian hero Vassili Zaitsev whose fame thrust him into a personal war with the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Erwin Konig.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enemy 2001Summary: The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. In season two, Offred and all our characters will fight against or succumb to this dark truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ha 2Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Handmaid's 2018Summary: Based on Radical Comics' Hercules by Steve Moore, this ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth. It offers the truth behind the myth by presenting the fashioning of a warrior who, for all his strength and courage, is flesh and blood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HERSummary: "Antonio, a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock, a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio woo the fair Portia. Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed him but soon learns that those to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Merchant 2005Summary: Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune, and his aide Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RisenCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RiSummary: Sinbad, a daring and notorious rogue, has spent his life sailing the seven seas asking for trouble. Now he has been framed for stealing a priceless and powerful treasure--the Book of Peace. Sinbad has one chance to find and return the precious book, and battle the Goddess of Chaos or his best friend Proteus will die.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SINSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: At the turn of the 20th century, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. When she chooses the younger of the two, the embittered older brother travels to Europe where he becomes a ruthless mercenary. But a revolution takes a personal twist with one brother hanging on the edge of life and death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DUSSummary: When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999