Summary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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

Summary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But above all, Gwendolen needs money, and the icy aristrocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is more than happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007

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

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Summary: Glyndebourne Festival Opera's 1972 production of Verdi's opera, based on Shakespeare's tragic play which studies the all consuming ambition of Macbeth and his wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2005

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MAC

Summary: In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000

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

Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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

Summary: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COC RATED PG-13

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COC

Summary: A gambler on the run meets and marries a librarian after she wins a coin toss.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NO

Haneke, Michael

Summary: A land surveyor tries to convince the local government of a small mountain village of the legitimacy of his position, but the more he struggles, the more obstructive the village's bureaucracy becomes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAS

Summary: Shakespeare's play about Richard of Gloucester, a self-proclaimed villian who usurps the crown. Through family machinations, political marriages and military coups, this play portrays the tumultous reign of King Edward IV and the ascension of Richard to the throne, an intricate period in English history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2000

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS RIC

Summary: The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2 entertain/BBC Video 2006

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

Summary: In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, the series is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in thirteenth century China.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Paradjanov, Sergei

Summary: In a remote nineteenth century Carpathian mountain village, Ivan falls for the daughter of the man who murdered his father, but is separated from her by poverty and a sorcerer's curse.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SHA

Summary: Join Darby and her friends Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too, as they teach children about problem-solving, teamwork, and imagination.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FRI

Summary: Realizing that her lover Jean is losing interest in her, a society lady Helene gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute Agnes. After the wedding Helene tells a stunned Jean about his wife's secret past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAM

Summary: "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

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

Bridges, Jeff

Summary: A collection of four adapted stories by the Brothers Grimm.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Releasing 2009

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

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 JUN

Summary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAW

Summary: King Henry, now in failing health and still embroiled in war, sends his second son Prince John of Lancaster to the battle. Prince John tricks and defeats the enemy while his older son, the Prince of Wales, is summoned away from Falstaff and his tavern circle to the king's bedside where he assumes the throne upon the death of the king.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1987

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

Heckart, Eileen

Summary: A mother suspects that her young daughter is a killer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

Summary: Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven's efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop's household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop's negelected wife becomes infatuated with him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY Bis

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Bishop's 1947

Arthur, Jean

Summary: Comedy in which the daughter of an eccentric family falls for the son of a wealthy New York family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOU

Karloff, Boris

Summary: There is a mad butler in a house where travelers stranded by a storm seek refuge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Video 1999

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLD