Summary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie FatherSummary: All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What a whirl, what a world! High schooler Richard Samuels lucks into a role in a daring Broadway production of Julius Caesar. Cues, staging, rehearsals, romance, rivalries; he has a lot to learn. And the first thing to learn is never upstage Mercury Theatre's genius director, 22-year-old Orson Welles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ME1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ME
Summary: Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Only a small group of children seem to be immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRSummary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAT PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Battle 2017Summary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADVSummary: Frankenstein: Dr. Frankenstein creates a true monster from dead human parts, but it gets out of control and into trouble. Bride of Frankenstein: Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help create a new creature, a woman, to be the companion of the monster. Son of Frankenstein: Wolf Frankenstein, the doctor's son, returns with his wife to claim his inheritance. Ghost of Frankenstein: Ygor resurrects...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRASummary: As it returns for Season 4, families will be brought together in the vibrant and violent area of the U.S.-Mexico border. After international lines were done away with following the world's end, the characters must attempt to rebuild not only society, but family as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: Enter the mythical world of the Gargoyles and get to know the ancient creatures that once guarded a medieval Scottish fortress, and who now have come alive at night to protect the city of Manhattan from evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GARSummary: In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HIDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HiSummary: Two friends who envy each other's lives wake up one morning to find they have switched bodies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHASummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: The rescuers: A shy but brave mouse and his glamorous partner embark on a mission to save a young girl named Penny. With their albatross friend, they find themselves on the riverboat hideout of the hilariously evil Madame Medusa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD RescuersSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014