Summary: Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The sound of music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: White Russian Army general Fydor acts as a spy against the Marxists, Soviets, and Fascists in 1930s France, and manages to deceive his long-suffering wife until the forces of history catch up with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRISummary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAWSummary: It's high-seas hilarity when Scooby-Doo and the gang take a creepy cruise into the legendary Bermuda Triangle! Spooks and scares lurk around every corner-- from alien sightings to terrifying Skeleton Ghost Pirates that sink cruise ships with cannonballs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: Salt of the Earth is a feature film based on the 1950s strike by zinc miners in New Mexico. Hollywood Ten is a documentary chronicling the lives and work of ten filmmakers blacklisted by The House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer Entertainment (USA) 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A wealthy older man has an affair with a young maid played by twodifferent actresses in this darkly humorous satire on sexualobsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: "An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DISSummary: 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: The inspirational and triumphant story of a man who defies great odds and takes on a monumental challenge. This heartwarming tale of determination is an uplifting and humorous film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVEI ONSummary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIGSummary: The film follows a group of misfit kids as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOOSummary: When a corrupt corporate developer buys out their neighborhood and plans to flatten all their homes, a gang of kids stumbles onto a treasure map and searches out the treasure in the hopes of buying back their houses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FAMILY GOOSummary: Longfellow Deeds, a small-town poet, inherits $20 million from his uncle and wants to give it away to needy people. Petty moochers, greedy relatives, conniving lawyers and big executives, who all want a piece of the pie, attempt to have Deeds declared incompetent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MRSummary: Stevie, Carole, and Lisa seem to have it all - a great riding stable, with an amazing coach, beautiful horses, and acres of trails to ride on. At Pine Hollow Stables, they have formed The Saddle Club. But the world is quickly changing for these 12-year-olds, from preparing for a major horse show, to dealing with boys. They can always count on one thing - they will always have each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SADSummary: Escapees from a Confederate prison camp seize a balloon which is wrecked on a Pacific island, where Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus attempts to rescue them from the dangers of the island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MysSummary: Darby O'Gill and the little people (1959, 91 min., full screen): An old storyteller falls into a well and meets a group of leprechauns. The leprechauns give him three wishes to get his life together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As soon as a woman is nominated to replace the deceased vice president of the USA, her political enemies search in her private life for ways to bring her down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AIRSummary: Its January 1977 and Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. Gary's youngest brother, Mikal, can help prevent the execution, but first he has to get to know the brother he barely remembers. Born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition, the brothers discover their shared past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOSummary: Corridors of blood: Set in the primitive hospitals of 19th century London, this recounts the story of the unfortunate Dr. Bolton, an early pioneer in anesthesiology, showing his gradual addiction to drugs and his dealings with grave robbers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HAUSummary: Darren Silverman is a guy who gets himself into a new relationship with a hottie, who is messing up a long lasting friendship between Darren and his two buddies. The buddies then decide that they need to "help" Darren with his girlfriend -- by kidnapping her and re-introducing Darren to an old high school sweetheart who is headed toward a convent life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SAVPenn, Sean
Summary: A mentally-challenged man seeks custody of his young daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002