Summary: November, 1999. A peaceful demonstration to stop the World Trade Oraganization talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot, and soon a State of Emergency is declared by the Mayor of Seattle. The streets are mayhem, and the WTO is paralyzed. Caught in the crossfire of civil liberties and keeping the peace are Seattle residents, including its beleaguered mayor, a SWAT riot officer on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. Follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny. Shows the future conqueror and revealing him not as the evil brute, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MONSummary: The world's most notorious slum is Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. Presents the true story of a young man who grew up on those streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CITSummary: 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
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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: Comedy about an organizationally impaired temporary assistant who gets her first pemanent job at the age of 31 working for a curator of an art gallery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IVESummary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAR RATED PGSummary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADSummary: The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEF RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEFPenn, Sean
Summary: A mentally-challenged man seeks custody of his young daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ISummary: In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands outside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESCSummary: A young society woman's love for a common journalist presents her with an impossible decision: leave him or marry and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist when she befriends a lonely young heiress whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible but dangerous solution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WINSummary: Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegGee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EMMSummary: A young man inherits a train station in rural New Jersey and moves there for a life of quiet solitude. He soon finds friendships and a sense of belonging that he never expected, and never thought he wanted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STASummary: Teena Brandon alters her appearance to appear as a man, and assumes the name Brandon Teena. She moves to a tiny Nebraska town and begins making new friends under her new identity. All goes well until her new friends discover her secret. Based on a true story about hope, fear, and the courage it takes to be yourself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: Two English bachelors just want to have the time of their lives, but their plans run into a rough spot when their traditional father (George "Genghis" Khan) secretly arranges their marriages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000