Summary: In 1949, an innocent man, Timothy Evans, is charged with the gruesome slaying of his wife and baby. Convicted by the testimony of his landlord, John Christie, a mild-mannered ex-policeman, Evans is sentenced to hang. However, after the execution, evidence reveals that the real psychotic killer is continuing his mass murder spree. Public outcry over this true case led to Great Britain's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TENSummary: 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VIKSummary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOSSummary: A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TORSummary: Chicago, 1924. Two young men, one bossy and intimidating, the other sensitive and introverted, thought their superior intellect would enable them to pull off "The perfect crime." The result is a sensational case with defense attorney Jonathan Wilk putting capital punishment itself on trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COMSummary: A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TWECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE 200Summary: Conan the barbarian: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CONSummary: A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tora 2001Summary: Fantastic voyage: A team of miniaturized scientists go on a remarkable journey through the human body. The lost world: Prehistoric beasts are discovered in the modern-day world. The towering inferno: Faulty wiring sparks a deadly fire in a high-rise building. Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Adventures aboard the submarine Seaview.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FANSummary: Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SOYSummary: Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Admiral Nelson takes scientists in his futuristic atomic submarine to explode a belt of radiation. Fantastic voyage: Follows the treacherous voyage of five scientists who are reduced to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of an injured Czechoslovak scientist to remove a cerebral blood clot which must be repaired from inside the brain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on a variety of four-legged and fine-feathered patients. See his secret cures and watch as ordinary and exotic animals talk, dance, and sing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DOCSummary: Pardoned instead of Christ, Barabbas is haunted for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulfur mines and then to gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002