Summary: Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served, for less than a year, as the first elected prime minister until he was brutally assassinated.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUM

Summary: As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROA

Summary: Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAT

Summary: Tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra Ann Dowd receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky, has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she's only doing what's right, Sandra commences the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COM

Summary: The atomic brain: Inside an evil mansion, a mad scientist and an old woman hire three young women as servants. Grave robbing and forced brain transplants by atomic power add to the horror as the three women are chained to the devil's love lab ; The brain that wouldn't die: A crazed surgeon accidentally decapitates his attractive fiancée. He takes her head to his lab to keep if alive while he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CUL

Summary: A simple, peaceful countryside is being terrorized by killer zombies with only one thing on their minds--destroy all humans. A small stronghold of survivors must hold the zombies at bay outside an old, abandoned house for any future hope of humanity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Market Square/Westwood Artists International 1999

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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR NIG

Summary: Chronicles the beginnings of professor Xavier's super-powered X-students. The battle focuses on their primary sinister foe, Magneto, who has his mutant minions at his side. A George Wallace-like senator launchs a campaign against mutantkind which, of course, only complicates things for our heroes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie X-Men 2002

Summary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEV

Summary: John Connor is a 20-something living on the streets as a common laborer. His mother has since died, and their earlier efforts did not stop the creation of SkyNet artificial intelligence network. As he will still become the leader of the human resistance, Connor is once again targeted by a Terminator sent from the future by SkyNet. This new Terminator, T-X, is a female and is more powerful than...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Terminator

Summary: A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIG

Summary: Hans, a fruit peddler, watches his unexceptional life disintegrate. Seduced and rejected to the point of a nervous breakdown, Hans drinks himself to death as he toasts his loved ones at the dinner table.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MER

Summary: An attractive and successful ophthalmologist quits her job and places a personal ad in the newspaper. She has a specific purpose in her ad - she is looking for marriage. After a series of blind dates with men who are either lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above, what she really wants is her mysterious ex-lover to came back to her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PER

Summary: Officer Tom Hanson goes undercover as a high-school student with the Jump Street Unit, a special division of the police force that uses young cops to fight juvenile crime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD 21

Summary: Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious and sexy Carmen Jones. Their ill-fated romance comes to a grisly end by the conclusion of the drama but not before their liaison has wreaked havoc with their lives and all who cross their paths.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS/Fox Video 1991

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CAR

Summary: A mysterious fugitive escapes from the law and ends up becoming a stunt man under a mesmerizing, possibly insane movie director (Peter O'Toole). Explores the ever changing nature of reality and illusion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STU

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DOW

Summary: Fassbinder directs and stars as a gay lower-class carnival performer known as Fox the Talking Head, who strikes it rich by winning a lottery. Then he has an ill-fated romance with an elegant upperclass lover.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOX

Summary: During the Vietnam War, a South Korean army base begins receiving mysterious radio transmissions from a patrol that went missing six months earlier. A shell-shocked commanding officer (Woo-Sung Kam) and a ragtag military unit are sent into the desoloate stretch of land know as R-Point to gather clues as to the whereabouts of the missing soldiers. What appeared to be a clear search and rescue...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN R-PO

Summary: When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUC

Summary: Former Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths when they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college; one is now a successful poet, the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUS

Summary: A street junkie involved in a violent massacre at a pharmacy is recruited, against her will, by a secret government agency for training as a killer. Transformed into a beautiful, sophisticated weapon she is sent away and establishes a new identity, She falls in love with a soft spoken romantic, only to be activated for duty, trapping her in an nasty double life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 1997

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEM