Summary: After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Co

Summary: Aliens abduct all adults; genius Jimmy and his friends build an interstellar spacefleet and rescue them, and get home in time for dinner.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JIM

Summary: Rick Riker is a high school student who is bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly while on a field trip to the local laboratory. Rick soon realizes that he's developing super powers, including the ability to break-dance vertically on a building wall and the development of lightening fast reflexes. Disguised in a green and black suit and going by the name Dragonfly, Rick uses his abilities to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUP

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRI RATED PG

Summary: Ruby is a neurotic with an unhappy track record concerning men and Sam is an oddball who is afraid of small dogs and has a barcode tattooed to his arm. Slowly, Sam begins to reveal his "past." He tells her that he is from the Dubuque of the future and that he hails from a family who believe that reproduction should occur the old-fashioned, fun way as opposed to the cloning method. Ruby is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAP

Summary: "Born into a world filled with prejudice are children who possess extraordinary and dangerous powers - the result of unique genetic mutations. But under the tutelage of Professor Xavier, these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind. Now they must protect those who fear them as the nefarious Magneto, who believes humans and mutants can never co-exist, unveils...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XME

Summary: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods. The characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class in an epic battle that must change the past; to save our future.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD X-Men

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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE X-ME

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE XME

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD X-MEN RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XME

Summary: An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE X2

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE X2X

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie X2X-Men 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD X

Summary: The world's longest-running sci-fi series is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an explosive special. In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Ltd. Program 2013

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOC

Summary: In the 1940s, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin, who has used his occult powers to summon up a demon from the depths of Hell. However, the demonic creature is captured by American forces, and put in the care of Professor Broom. Under Broom's care, Hellboy develops the desire to do good. Sixty years later he takes action as part of an elite secret defense team...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HEL

Summary: Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. Warmongers dream of abusing his powers and won't leave Bruce alone. He suffers from his constant need to be with the only woman he has ever love, Betty Ross, and Bruce knows that he must return to civilization. The brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INC RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Incredible

Summary: A fox terrier and a black labrador escape from an animal research station and must run for their lives when it is rumored they are carriers of a plague.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity Home Entertainment 2004

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PLA

Summary: Research scientist Eddie Jessup explores altered states of consciousness using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic drugs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ALT

Summary: A parody of epic science fiction movies, especially the original "Star wars" trilogy. Two space bums attempt to rescue a space princess from an assortment of space villains.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SPA

Summary: Based on the novel by George Orwell which is the story of impossible love and tragic betrayal set in the twisted, horrific world of "1984".

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2003

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI NIN

Summary: Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert", are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live archangel named Michael.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIC

Summary: Visions of a future full of astonishing android technology. David, an advanced android, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity. Believing in the story of Pinocchio, David dreams of becoming a real boy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Artificial 2002

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI AI

Summary: Comedy about a rich and spoiled New York housewife in a bad marriage. She dreams of having an affair with a musician she met at her children's school. An herbalist she visits in Chinatown gives her mysterious potions that break down her inhibitions, make her invisible and let her see tender moments with loved ones from her past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALI

Summary: "When John Murdoch awakens in a strange hotel room, he finds that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. The problem is he can't remember a thing. Pursued by the police and haunted by the Strangers, mysterious beings who possess the ability to stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity. But in a city where reality is the ultimate illusion,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1998

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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DAR

Summary: The fate of mankind hangs in the balance when a ruthless prince awakens an unstoppable army of creatures and wages war with the human world. It's up to Hellboy and his team of paranormal outcasts to face off with the forces of darkness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD H

Pinon, Dominique

Summary: In a rickety apartment building, a sweet-natured clown becomes the catalyst in the lives of the unusual tenants.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DEL

Summary: A spoof of 1950's B sci-fi movies. A scientist tries to save the world from an assortment of aliens, monsters, and even a grouchy skeleton!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LOS

Summary: Twelve years afte the events in Frank Herbert's Dune, Maud'Dib--Arrakis emperor Paul Atreides--has become the unintended figurehead of a violent dictatorship, and his enemies are multiplying. Vanishing into the desert, he waits as destiny shapes his twin heirs Leto II and Ghanima, who must contend with their scheming aunt Alia while Princess Wensicia, of the enemy House Corrino, plots her own...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHI