Summary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the twentieth century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAUHanks, Tom
Summary: In the aftermath of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an elderly widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Wichita Falls back to her family in San Antonio.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NEWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NEWCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEWHanks, Tom
Summary: After landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger faces criticism during the investigation into the crash while being hailed as a hero by the media.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sully 2016Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUL RATED PG-13Summary: In nineteenth-century England, jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Julia convinces her friend to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman or the perfect hoax.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MR.Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRSummary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFSummary: It's the 1972 Olympics and PLO terrorists have just kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUN RATED RSummary: This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Post 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POSTSummary: When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaKrieps, Vicky
Summary: Explores the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria as she turns forty and has to navigate the conflict between the expectations of her culture and her own desires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Distribution Solutions 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CORSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: In the aftermath of World War II, a group of surrendered German soldiers are ordered by Allied forces to remove their own landmines from the coast of Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Foreign LandGarfield, Andrew
Summary: Follows the rise, fall, and redemption of televangelist, Tammy Faye Bakker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EYECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EYESummary: Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, even as she seeks to win the heart of the king.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family One 2006Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OSummary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: In her breathtaking and assured debut feature, Lynne Ramsay creates a haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood. Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him. Utilizing beautiful, elusive imagery, candid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIESummary: This is the shocking true story of the Battle of Isandlwana: in January 1879, arrogant officials of the British colony of Natal, Africa issued a list of unauthorized ultimatums to the Zulu Nation. When the Zulu king refused their demands, the empire declared war. And in a series of grave tactical blunders, a garrison of 1,500 British soldiers faced an army of 25,000 enraged Zulu warriors in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ZULSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIN RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lincoln 2013Leung, Tony.
Summary: In 208 A.D., General Cao Cao leads an army to destroy two warlords who stand in his way, but the warlords band together to take on the giant army and the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnet 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioSummary: On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOL1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD