Summary: A soulful look into the lives of four women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, they form a rap group, but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism and violence. Eventually, they learn that out of struggle comes strength and the courage to continue on.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANTSummary: Documentary about Jewish American academic Norman Finkelstein, a devoted son of holocaust survivors, ardent critic of U.S. and Israeli Mid-East policy, and author of five provocative books, including The Holocaust Industry. Finkelstein has been steadfastly at the center of many intractable controversies, including the recent denial of his tenure at DePaul University. He's called a lunatic and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Typecast Releasing 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AME1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AME
Summary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPBrolin, Josh
Summary: Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of local firefighters train together to become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the nation and are tested when an historic wildfire threatens their town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Only 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONLSummary: The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIV RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIVSummary: More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Smart 2008Summary: A Connecticut adult swim class sets the stage for this comedy-drama about love, loss and second chances. Three strangers, inextricably connected through personal heartbreak, find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in-- it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: Is there really such a thing as a benevolent destiny that will eventually reunite true soul mates separated by time and distance? It begins at Christmastime in a New York department store, where two people meet by chance -- while shopping for their "significant others"--And are immediately attracted to each other. After spending a romantic evening together, they reluctantly part, secretly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Serendipity 2002Ailes, Roger
Summary: Examines the rise and fall of the late media mogul, Roger Ailes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIVSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAISummary: In this next chapter following the 2014 hit, legendary hit man John Wick is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JOHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOHSummary: Every year, Western mountain climbers make news ascending Mount Everest. The compelling stories of the Sherpas, the Nepalese guides who risk their lives to provide for their families, have remained a mystery, until now. This chronicles a fateful 2014 expedition and the tragic avalanche that spurred the Sherpas to make a stand for human rights and respect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHESummary: When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOH RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOHSummary: Reservoir dogs: After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: [Disc 1]. The inheritance (1997; 93 min.) / a Kraft Premier movie ; Alliance Atlantis Communications presents an Alliance Atlantis Communications/Cosgrove Meurer/Televest production ; producer, Ed Self ; teleplay by Maria Nation ; directed by Bobby Roth -- Love among the ruins (1975; 103 min.) / ABC/Circle Films ; produced by Allan Davis ; directed by George Cukor ; written by James Costigan....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BrSummary: For 18 months, award-winning director Scott Hicks followed the legendary composer Philip Glass across three continents, creating a remarkable portrait of one of the greatest artists of all time. Allowed unprecedented access to Glass's working process and long time collaborators, Hicks provides a unique glimpse into the composer's life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GLASummary: A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PRISummary: In the year 2035, robots are a common, trusted part of life. But that trust is broken when a scientist is found dead, and a skeptical Chicago police detective investigating the murder believes that a robot is responsible. It seems impossible for a robot to break the Three Laws of Robotics, for if that were to happen there would be nothing to stop them from taking over the world. Aiding the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROBSummary: Reporter Bob Wilton is trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails. He gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. With unparalleled psychic powers, they can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat by simply staring at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Men 2010Summary: After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ROOSummary: Hank is a retired Sergeant with the Military Police, now he spends his days hauling gravel and sharing a quiet life with his wife Joan. One day, he receives a call informing him that his youngest son, Mike, had gone AWOL. Hank thought his son was in Iraq, but is informed that Mike returned stateside four days ago with his platoon. Hank calls his son's cell phone and gets voice mail. He checks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008