Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Join Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and brave members of the Fellowship as they continue their quest to destroy the Ring of Power. As darkness descends on Middle-earth, a strange creature named Gollum leads the heroes to the Black Gates of Mordor. The rest of Middle-earth prepares for a battle that will decide the fate of all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lord 2003Summary: In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant girl with extraordinary fighting prowess requires his help to outrun sinister figures working for a powerful corporation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A farmer moves his family to South Africa and suffers a series of seemingly insurmountable losses. Through unlikely friendships and much needed divine intervention, he discovers his life's true purpose and it sustains his unwavering belief in the power of faith.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: "With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY PHISummary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIDGrant, Cary
Summary: A reformed jewel thief is the prime suspect in a new rash of thefts, and in order to clear himself he sets out to find the real thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard -- bodyguard Michael Bryce, hitman Darius Kincaid and his wife Sonia are back as the mismatched, high-octane trio -- that are once again forced together into another life-threatening mission to save Europe from a vengeful and powerful zealot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HITSummary: Clara is searching for the special key to unlock a box from her late mother. Inside that box is a priceless item that her mother left for her. During her godfather's yearly holiday party, Clara almost gets the key but it disappears. She embarks on a quest into a mysterious world which has four different realms: a snowflakes realm, flowers realm, sweets realm, and the challenging realm where the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NUTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD JUV NUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NuSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Guardians 2014Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GUACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUA RATED PG-13Summary: The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one, the Queen, her jealous stepmother. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White as the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest. There, she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs, Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey. The Queen finds Snow White and tricks her with an enchanted...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Entertainment, Inc. 2016
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SNOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF SnSummary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Grant, Richard E.
Summary: Follows the epic story of a man in a magical land who succumbs to dark temptations after obtaining forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant, and those from different eras and cultures who try to stop him as his power grows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Distribution Solutions 2022
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SPISummary: Tarantula: an experiment to create a growth formula that could end starvation. Mole people: three scientists stumble upon a tyrannical tribe of albinos who have enslaved a mutant race of mole people. Incredible shrinking man: an ordinary business man is exposed to a radioactive mist and finds his size diminishing .Monolith Monsters: a geologist and a scientist must find a way to stop the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Woodcarver Geppetto has pets Figaro the cat and Cleo the fish. He has just made a little wooden puppet called Pinocchio. Wishing upon a star before he goes to bed, Geppetto wishes that Pinocchio would become a real boy. As Geppetto sleeps, the Blue Fairy arrives and partially grants his wish. Pinocchio can come to life, but he must prove himself worthy before becoming a real boy. He will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2017
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4 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIN RATED GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Movie Pinocchio 2009Summary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A family of scientists is on the brink of a powerful discovery when a mysterious force suddenly abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Years later, April carries on her family's research in secret with her cat, Darwin, but soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered airships, and cyborg rat spies!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN APRSummary: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017