Summary: It provides a thrilling and intimate look at the life of a professional skier and BASE jumper Matthias Giraud, who stops at nothing to pursue his passion for adventure. The film follows Matthias as he dares to execute ever more dangerous stunts while simultaneously falling in love and starting a family. The story takes a turn when Matthias suffers a catastrophic crash just days before the birth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUPSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: "Where did Anthony 'Zorba the Greek' Quinn actually grow up? What happened to Shirley Temple after the 'Good Ship Lollipop' of child superstardom sailed? Was Grace Kelly always destined to be a princess? You'll find the answers to these and many other questions in this collection!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image/Madacy Entertainment 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEG1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LEG
Summary: In this season, the team loses Mickey Bricks to an overseas sabbatical, so it's time for someone else to lead the gang. Danny steps up to the plate, but can the others convince him that the team needs another member-- especially when it comes in the form of street kid Billy Bond? There are, as always, plenty of marks who are greedy, rude, or simply nasty enough to be parted from their cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUSSummary: Strapped for cash after a spell in Las Vegas, the expert tricksters are confronted by some risky situations. They devise and execute more devious schemes to replenish their coffers by depriving some nasty characters of their ill-gotten gains.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUSSummary: Christian Wolff is a math savant who works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division starting to close in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ACCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACC RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ACCSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells; catch up with their lives on the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Most of the family struggles with individual business ventures from running a guest house, attempting to get published, starting a beauty salon, and opening a zoo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 4Summary: Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 3Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Durrells 2018Summary: "Follow the phenomenal journey of renowned artist Matthew Barney and his collaborator, singer-songwriter Björk, as they embark on an unbelievable filmmaking journey in Japan. From artistic vision to manifestation, this compelling documentary reveals Barney's unique process in creating Drawing restraint 9, a massive cinematic piece that combines a whaling vessel; 45,000 pounds of petroleum...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MATSummary: An alcoholic novelist meets a widowed hairdresser. He begins to wonder if she murdered her former husbands and if he'll be next.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOUSummary: "Explore the Bright Angel Trail down to the Colorado River and Phantom Ranch. If you're adventurous, take the steep and dry South Kaibab Trail. For the most awe inspiring views from the main trails, creep along the towering cliffs of the North Kaibab Trail. Learn about permits, techniques, and skills that you need to camp in the inner canyon. Find out what to expect when you reach Indian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Real World Productions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917 BACSummary: Boston gangster Whitey Bulger deals with the FBI and competing crime families as he tries to make his way to the top of the criminal underworld.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLA RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLASummary: "Explore the legally treacherous terrain of white collar crime under the guidance of an acclaimed law school professor."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0268 WHICall number: DVD 345.0268 WHI
Summary: Domestic disturbance: A divorced father discovers that his 11-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be. The father's investigation into the man's past explodes into a terrifying mission to rescue his son from danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TRASummary: Rudy Baylor (Damon) is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woman. Will he be up to the task?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAISummary: Lisa Baumer learns that her husband has died in a freak plane accident. Summoned to Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy, she soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, private detective Peter Lynch arrives to investigate irregularities in the insurance claim. Teaming up with a beautiful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CASSummary: Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMISummary: Penn and Teller debunk a number of dubious enterprises, including PETA, the war on drugs, the myth of monogamy, twelve-step programs, the FCC's crusade against profanity, the New Age movement, the anti-aging industry, recycling, Biblical claims, the exercise industry, and hypnosis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PENPetersen, William L.
Summary: A secret service agent becomes obsessed with destroying a counterfeiter responsible for his partner's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER TOSummary: When Chief Inspector Tanner arrives at the house of Lord and Lady Lebanon to investigate the murder of their chauffeur, he quickly notices a lot of strange things about the household; when a priceless Buddhist artefact is stolen from a Japanese temple, a popular radio personality accidentally becomes involved in the case; a gambler falls in love with a young woman and believes she is bringing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRISummary: Based on author and naturalist Gerald Durrell's much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels, The Durrells sees impoversihed but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to leave 1930s England in hopes of a better life for her children. As Louisa relocates her reluctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun, the Durrells face a whole new set of challenges as they meet new friends,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DUR RATED NRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 1Copies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Durells 2016Call number: DVD TV Series Durrells 2016