Summary: Greater follows the true story of Brandon Burlsworth, the greatest walk-on in the history of college football. Brandon dreams of playing for the Arkansas Razorbacks but is told he isn't good enough to play Division 1.The awkward kid who once was an embarrassment to his teammates and annoyance to his coaches ends up becoming an All-American player and the 63rd pick in the 1999 NFL Draft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrSummary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIRSummary: An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QueenCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUE RATED PG-13Summary: Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighboring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam's relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SWEHicks, Bill
Summary: One Night Stand: Bill Hicks is a comedian with a message. In his own words, he offers 'a message that is not heard very often ... but it's the truth'. Raw and outspoken, Hicks tells us alcohol and cigarettes are more harmful than marijuana. He also offers his view on the devil on records played backwards, kids who commit suicide after hearing Judas Priest material and he explains what causes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc, Inc. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS BILSummary: In his unique fiction/documentary hybrid, the pioneering William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. This wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark is expanded 35 years later by its unconventional follow-up, Take 2 1/2. The sequel sees the actors reunited in a more personal,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SYMSummary: Sam, a former high-profile ad executive, is devastated by the sudden death of his musician son. When Sam discovers a box filled with his son's demo tapes, the grieving father's downward spiral comes to a standstill as he explores this unexpected gift. After mustering the will to perform one of the songs at a local bar, Sam meets and forms a friendship with Quentin a young musician. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUDSummary: The documentary film PlantPure Nation tells the story of three people on a quest to spread the message of one of the most important health breakthroughs of all time. After renowned nutritional scientist and bestselling author Dr. T. Colin Campbell gives a stirring speech on the floor of the Kentucky House of Representatives, his son Nelson, and Kentucky State Representative Tom Riner work...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PlantPure Productions LCC 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLASummary: Baiae, an ancient Roman city lost to the same volcanoes that entombed Pompeii. But unlike Pompeii, Baiae sits under water, in the Bay of Naples. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the city was an escape for Rome's rich and powerful elite, a place where they were free of the social restrictions of Roman society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NERSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REW1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REW
Greater Vision.
Contents: All creatures of our God and king ("O for a thousand tongues to sing" and "O worship the king" -- Come thou long expected Jesus -- Tell me the story of Jesus -- Stranger of Galilee -- Lily of the valley -- Wondrous cross medley ("When I survey the wondrous cross", "the Healer", and "the Old rugged cross") -- Christ the Lord is risen today -- Redeemed medley ("Since I have been redeemed",...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Greater Vision 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS GREGreater California
Contents: The appearing -- Missing summer -- Looking in -- May day -- Jersey Thursday -- In scarlet -- Patterns -- Reappearing -- Portuguese hall -- Somber wurlitzer..
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earling Records 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRESummary: Is an exploration of the tenuous relationship between celebrities and the people who make a living selling their images. After a chance encounter with a 13-year-old paparazzo, Austin Visschedyk, Grenier takes a step back to think about the celebrity - obsessed culture that has produced the boy. Adrian starts hanging out with the young photographer, learning the tricks of the trade, as well as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in Canada by Mongrel 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TEESummary: It's December 23rd at the City and Colonial Bank, and the staff is preparing for their annual Christmas party. Harry Fordyce, the fastidious and exacting bank manager, welcomes in the bank's insurance company detective, Hepburn, to check out the security. It turns out, however, that Hepburn is not working for the bank, but robbing it, and he is holding Fordyce's family hostage. The bank...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CASSummary: When an overenthusiastic Maya accidentally embarrasses the Empress of Buzztropolis, she is forced to unite with a team of misfit bugs and compete in the Honey Games for a chance to save her hive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MAYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaSummary: Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWEEGreater California
Contents: All the colors--Them the downs--Five senses--The foolish son--It's great--Charmer--The disappearing--Almost sunshine--Pacific Ave. Corridor--The soft lights
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Subtitled Audio 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRESummary: Diane is forced to question whether it's appropriate for her to help run an African American law firm with Liz when the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa and the firm become entangled with Hal Wackner, a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his courtroom in the back of a copy shop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOOSummary: Scooby-Doo and the cyber chase: Scooby-Doo and the gang are zapped into a computer game based on their own adventures. There they must play the game through to its end to find and capture the Phantom Virus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVSummary: Inspired by true events, this is a wickedly comedic look at a bromance gone bad. Set in the opulence of early 1980s California, the story follows the meteoric rise of John DeLorean, and his iconic DeLorean Motor Company, through his friendship with charming ex-con turned FBI informant, Jim Hoffman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DRISummary: This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: As Alicia struggles to get her career back on track, she stumbles on a case that puts her up against Diane Lockhart and David Lee. Peter fires Eli Gold, who vows revenge. Cary discovers that his firm is getting out of touch. Peter has little time left to make a plea deal before the jury comes back with a verdict. Meanwhile, Alicia must decide whether her future is with Peter or with Jason, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016