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King, ChrisSummary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE THRSummary: 20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancé, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaSummary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THRSummary: 20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mamma 2008Summary: When Odysseus left Troy it took him ten years to get back to his home in Ithaca. Steve and Rob have only six days on their odyssey in. On the way, they argue about tragedy and comedy, astronomy and biology, myth, history, democracy, and the meaning of life! Featuring locations such as: Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Ancient Agora of Athens, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, the unique island...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRISummary: Set in ancient Greece, this film follows two stories: the tragic tale of a young shepherd's disasterous attempt to find affection from an older village girl with whom he has fallen in love, and an adulterous affair between an older shepherd and a fisherman's wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Epoch 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOUSummary: The story of ancient Greece's Golden Age is told through the lives of its prominent figures, including Cleisthenes, Themistocles, Pericles, and Socrates. Topics covered include the building of the Acropolis, the Battle of Marathon, and the philosophers of the Academy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young British writer moves to Crete to find himself by working in his father's mine, and hires the playful Zorba. He falls in love with a lovely young widow. When she responds to him the townsmen attack her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZORSummary: Commander Agamemnon stands ready to launch his infamous thousand ships to retrieve the beautiful Helen of Troy. As the wind refuses to blow, a priest condemns him for sacrilege, and the powerful general is pressured to sacrific his daughter to save the states. Threatened and tormented, Agamemnon is faced with sending his child like a lamb to the slaugher and betraying his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tracy and Nick agree to set aside work to make time for a long overdue honeymoon to Greece. However, they soon find themselves confronting life choices when they get stranded on a secluded island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel, Cinedigm 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALSummary: Two Americans living in Athens have a weekend fling one summer and decide to see if their relationship can last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONSummary: An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARSummary: "An oddball group of four people (made up of two hospital employees, a gymnast, and her coach) form a secret society that sets out to ease the grieving process for those whose loved ones have died. For a fee they will act the part of the missing family member--learning their hobbies and eccentricities--in order to help the customer accept their loss. As methadone is to heroin addiction, so are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie premiered, you're invited back to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new musical sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna, she'll need to take risks. The film's original cast returns, with new additions including Lily James as a young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mamma 2018King, Chris
Summary: With the help of musicologist Chris King, takes you on a journey to Europe's oldest surviving folk music, the music of Greece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHISummary: Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. He's pitted against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes, and Artemesia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300Summary: Comedy loosely based on Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" has a New York City architect who tries to solve his midlife crisis by moving to a Greek island with his teenage daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TEMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TempestSummary: When childhood friends Magalie and Blandine cross paths after many years, they decide to finally take their dream vacation to Greece. A wildly entertaining tale of female camaraderie, also starring Academy Award Nominee Kristin Scott.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWOSummary: Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists, and turns. Opa!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MYCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus, the result is an epic war. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Troy 2005Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrSummary: Strong violence, language and some sexual content/nudity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KILSummary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020