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Collector's edition (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.) ; 10 Contemporary classics (MGM Home Entertainment Inc.) Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 51 Criterion collection ; 37 Masterpiece theatre (Television program) Turner classic movies seriesSummary: An epic fantasy tale of good versus evil, friendship and sacrifice. With the help of a courageous fellowship of friends and allies, Frodo the hobbit embarks on a perilous mission to destroy the legendary One Ring. Hunting him are servants of the Dark Lord Sauron, the Ring's evil creator. If Sauron reclaims the Ring, the whole of Middle-Earth is doomed. Part one of three films.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LORSummary: A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY TIMSummary: A mindless, savage, and merciless alien is attacking the crew of an intergalactic freighter and it must be stopped before they are all killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Royal Shakespeare Company presents one of the Bard's favorite tales, Supernatural beings, irresponsible lovers and entertaining comedy bring this romantic and frolicsome farce to life. Staring Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, David Warner, and Ian Holm, this screen adaptation is indeed a departure from the norm, yet it is in every way true to the original. This video is a must for all theater fans!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Water Bearer Films 1968
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Summary: A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAT RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Ratatouille 2008Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE RATSummary: Tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during child birth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a creature which Frankenstein has put together from the remains of corpses. The creature turns into a monster when Dr. Frankenstein rejects him. Sticking close to the original...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR MARSummary: The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ChCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHASummary: When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than anything anyone has ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAY RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Day 2004Summary: Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WETSummary: Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occuring while the King is being treated for an unknown mental illness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MADSummary: Over the years Tsar Nicholas cannot satisfy the needs of the people or prevent Russia's entry into World War I, and the Empress falls under the spell of the evil monk, Rasputin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. The dragon Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women, and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo attempts to make him see reason.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lord 2002Summary: A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 1999
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BRASummary: A skeptical American scientist attempts to solve the mystery of the Loch Ness monster. He ruffles the feathers of the locals, but an innkeeper named Laura, and her young daughter, open his eyes and his heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Orion Pictures Corp. 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1888 London's Whitechapel slums, poor women like Mary Kelly and her friends walk the streets for a living. When the streetwalkers begin to be murdered one by one, it attracts the attention of Inspector Abberline, who takes a personal interest in the case, and Mary Kelly. Now he must use his psychic abilities to stop the most notorious serial killer in history -- Jack the Ripper -- before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FROSummary: This rendering of Orwell's classic is set in the beautiful Irish countryside and populated with a wide variety of barnyard animals. Chaos ensues when the animals take over the farm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANISummary: Young King Henry of England asserts a hereditary claim to the throne of France, gathering an army and embarking on a course that will lead to one of England's greatest battlefield triumphs and forever change the face of Europe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Henry 2000Summary: Joe Mitchell is a top writer at The New Yorker, specializing in profiles of urban eccentrics. But he's never met anyone as fascinating as Joe Gould, a cantankerous, unkempt, yet possibly brilliant street philosopher. When Mitchell decides to profile Gould, he has to decide whether Gould is a fraud or a genius.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOESummary: Based on the 1997 Royal National Theatre production, widely considered the finest staging of King Lear in the past decade, Ian Holm 'touches greatness' (N.Y. Times) in Shakespeare's most sublime and difficult role.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KINSummary: A family seeking help for their sick daughter must choose between loyalty to the king and their need for Jesus' help.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Family Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD MiracleSummary: Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003