Summary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR HAM

Summary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIG

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GAN

Summary: A visual itinerary, an emotional visit to a family's homeland, a souvenir of the trip of a lifetime, or the virtual realization of a fantasy vacation - whatever the inspiration, one thing's certain - locations like this won't be seen any other way.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.2 VIS

Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEN

Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV O

Summary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROM

Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BAT

Contents: Yankee Doodle Dandy / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; screen play by, Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph ; original story by, Robert Buckner ; lyrics and music by, George M. Cohan ; directed by, Michael Curtiz -- This is the Army / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; screen play by, Casey Robinson and Claude Binyon ; music and lyrics by, Irving Berlin ; produced by, Jack L. Warner and Hal...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRE

Summary: Quiet high school student, Meg, takes care of her troubled little sister, Lily. Her emotionally unavailable mom is busy at work or school. Meg unleashes her frustrations and pain through her poems, which she shares with her supportive English teacher, Mr. Auster. She wins a regional poetry competition and makes it to the finals in Florida. Meg goes to Florida by herself, where she meets Mr....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLU

Summary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHE

Summary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOY

Contents: Corduroy-- and more stories about caring. Corduroy (live action) -- The happy lion / by Louise Fatio ; illustrated by Roger Duvoisin -- Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel / written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton -- I love you like crazy cakes / by Rose Lewis ; illustrated by Jane Dyer -- Smile for Auntie / written and illustrated by Diane Paterson -- The happy owls / written and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV COR

Summary: "A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRI

Summary: A mini-series based on Thackeray's story of an amoral beauty determined to scheme and seduce her way into Britain's upper classes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2003

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VAN

Summary: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. Includes the English/Italian hybrid cut of the film, the International version, and the U.S. release version.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY PHE

Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CUT

Summary: Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BOO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD B

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOO

Summary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROC