Summary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DOWSummary: After 30 years in prison, Horcia discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and the transformative discovery of the man who framed her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rocky is an innocent man released from prison. He's on the hunt for the people who framed him. Delong is a disabled veteran who produced the evidence that led to Rocky's release. He now wants part of the $100,000 in exchange for his help. However, after serving five years of a life-sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Rocky has a different plan. He wants to bring the real crooks to justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRYSummary: Six ordinary strangers awaken to find themselves in a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. Without food or water, they have only a few days to live. None of them knows how or why they've been imprisoned, but soon discover that each possesses a skill that could contribute to their escape. As they work together to extricate themselves from their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CUBSummary: Ganta is the only survivor after a mysterious man in red slaughters a classroom full of teenagers. He's framed for the carnage, sentenced to die, and locked away in the most twisted prison ever built: Deadman Wonderland. Then it gets worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME DEASummary: From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, and Hugh Dillon, it follows the McLusky family-power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAYSummary: 'Red' Davison, the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, 'Silent' Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of Scotty McKee. Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN REDSummary: Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCASummary: An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGSummary: Three young men once lived a life of drugs, sex and freedom in Malaysia. Now one is in prison (Vince Vaughn) and will be executed in five days if a woman (Anne Heche) cannot persuade the other two to return to Malaysia to serve three years in prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RETSummary: This summer, The Warden is back and the death toll at Superjail continues to rise at a ridiculous rate in the all-new Adult Swim DVD release. Includes all 10 episodes from the animated comedy's third season, complete with fist fights, baffling love triangles and psychedelic animation that will melt your face off. Series creators and executive producers also created a collection of bonus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUPSummary: For Life is a fictional serialised legal and family drama inspired by the life of Isaac Wright, Jr. about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn't commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FORSummary: From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, co-creator of Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family--power brokers in Kingstown. Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAY1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MAY
Summary: An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COUCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CountSummary: The Third Doctor and Jo Grant face the combined might of the Daleks and Master in two classic 1973 adventures. Frontier in Space - (6 eps.) In the year 2450 the Doctor is arrested as a spy as the fragile peace between Earth and Draconia is threatened. Planet of the Daleks - (6 eps.) The TARDIS arrives on the inhospitable planet of Spiridon, which is hiding a terrible secret about the Doctor's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Betty Anne Waters is a young woman whose world is shattered when her beloved brother Kenny is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Steadfastly convinced of his innocence, Betty Anne embarks on an 18-year journey to set Kenny free, using state-of-the-art forensic technology. The unshakable bond between a brother and sister, at the heart of this real-life drama, will stir your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CON RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Conviction 2011Summary: After being wrongfully convicted of a crime, a young woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. Upon her release, she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but does not know what is in store.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADYSummary: Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ISummary: Harold and Kumar take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, but Kumar's suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a racist Homeland Security official to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay. Once there, they watch as beefy guards sexually subjugate 'enemy combatants.' The guys manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HARSummary: Untamed love: "The inspiring story of Caitlin, a lost child, Maggie, a dedicated teacher, and the unexpected miracles that happen when Caitlin is finally given the chance to shine"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: "Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory minimum drug sentencing's devastating consequences, captured by Cindy's brother, follows her and her family over the course of ten years."--IMDb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019