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Assassins Rome Drama Caesar, Julius Assassination Drama Conspiracies Rome Drama Female friendship Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Sensationalism in journalism United States Drama Television broadcasting of news United States Drama Television news anchors United States Drama Terminally ill Drama Texas DramaSummary: David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MARSummary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAISummary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008Summary: Steve Kurtz's nightmare began on May 11, 2004, when he awoke to find his wife dead of heart failure. Police responding to his distressed 911 call became suspicious of biological equipment in his house and contacted the FBI. Only hours after his wife's tragic death, he found himself detained as a suspected "bioterrorist," as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suites scoured his home, seizing his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRSummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWEESummary: Jude Fawley is a poor stone carver who is tricked into a loveless marriage and ultimately forced to give up his dreams of a university education. After his wife deserts him, he begins a scandalous relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JUDSummary: Billy Bob is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in a small Alabama town in 1947. Billy Bob's best friend is Preacher Star, who has a pronounced mischievous streak. When Lily Jane moves into town with her mother, a strange woman who never speaks, both Billy Bob and Preacher are entranced. Billy Bob and Preacher become rivals for Lily Jane's affections. As Billy Bob struggles with first love, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Family Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHISummary: Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007