Summary: In 1949, an innocent man, Timothy Evans, is charged with the gruesome slaying of his wife and baby. Convicted by the testimony of his landlord, John Christie, a mild-mannered ex-policeman, Evans is sentenced to hang. However, after the execution, evidence reveals that the real psychotic killer is continuing his mass murder spree. Public outcry over this true case led to Great Britain's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TENSummary: Native American spirit warrior Tonto recounts the tales that transformed John Reid, a prosecutor, into a Texas ranger and a legend of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONSummary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his condierable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Second time around) The murder of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Summary: Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hustle 2019Summary: "After Hitler took over power in 1933, many Jewish artists were forced to leave Germany. Wilhelm Furtwängler chose to stay, serving as one of Germany's foremost cultural assets. Though never a member of the Party, Furtwängler was the recipient of government honors and appointments associated with Party members. However, the conductor often used his position and contacts to save hundreds of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAKSummary: Battling a fatal illness, Kathryn abandons her busy career as a lawyer and vows to spend her limited time piecing her broken family back together. However, she is not prepared for the tidal wave of hatred and love that she creates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVSummary: A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfe 2021
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SUOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SuSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A contemporary thriller featuring the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service."--IMDb
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BODSummary: A four children on holiday with their parents in Cornwall, England meet a magical creature with the power to grant wishes. They find out the hard way that the sand fairy's wishes only last until sundown, and they aren't the only family member who would like to be using the magic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOUSummary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OEDSummary: Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton receives a strange gift from his ne'er-do-well younger brother on his 48th birthday: A voucher for a game that will change his life. Thus begins a trip down a rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewer alike. This is a surreal multilayered, noirish descent into one man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The computer-hacking, conspiracy-exposing Lone Gunmen are always looking for that next big government cover-up that would bring their newsletter, The Lone Gunman, national attention. Whether in their secret underground office or in the back of their old VW bus, this bumbling and often socially inept trio is routinely laughed at by their peers. Now with a young, idealistic new member and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LONSummary: When Major Charles Rane returns home to Texas, he is given a true hero's welcome. He and his friend Johnny Vohden have endured eight years of physical and mental torture in a POW camp. Charlie's big homecoming includes a Cadillac convertible and a couple of thousand dollars ... and the news that his wife has fallen in love with another man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Shout Factory LLC under license from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE ROLSummary: When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRO RATED PGSummary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DISSummary: The Black Death is spreading all across 14th century England. A group of desperate villagers, lead by the visions of a young boy travel to a remote cave and tunnel their way into the future. Somehow these medieval time travelers must survive the 20th century, make their way home, and save their village from certain death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NAVSummary: Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott are back for another season. Upon stepping into the position of acting DI, Rachel senses the growing divide amongst her team. With Janet preoccupied by the arrest of her daughter and unable to advise on the situation, the two are left struggling to refocus on the horrific case at hand, the sinister world of Darknet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SCOSummary: The Grace Brothers store is closed down when Mr. Grace is unexpectedly killed in an accident. The staff finds out their pensions are tied up in a failing country inn and they have no way of reclaiming their funds. So the staff must decide to become partners and turn the inn into a money-making venture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARESummary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005