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Butlers Drama Dengler, Dieter Drama Escaped prisoners of war Laos Drama Fathers and daughters Drama Filipino Americans Drama Laos Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Padre de familia e hijo Teatro Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Drama Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Prisoners and prisons, American DramaSummary: An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONSummary: An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is abused and eventually driven mad by her brother-in-law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STRCotillard, Marion
Summary: The relationship of Ali, an unemployed single father, and Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a serious accident.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RUSSummary: A woman vacationing in the Austrian mountains discovers that she is separated from all human contact by an invisible barrier. With her loyal dog Lynx as her sole companion she undergoes an inward journey of growth and transcendence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WALSummary: When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESAttal, Yvan
Summary: After a wealthy industrialist is kidnapped, he deteriorates physically and emotionally as he is mistreated and the unsavory details of his private life become public.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAPSummary: Tension-filled, action packed espionage drama about a German demolitions expert who is blackmailed by the British to help them seize a German freighter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MORSummary: An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half his age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: Horse thief Tom Logan has set his sights on the horses and daughter of rancher David Braxton. However, Braxton has hired the infamous Lee Clayton to make sure that his possessions are safe and that any horse thief is stopped in his tracks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Missouri 2005Summary: Alex Beck is a kindhearted pediatrician in Paris who goes out of his way to help the poor in the clinic where he works. Blissfully married to his childhood sweetheart Margot, she disappears (and he is left in a coma) while on vacation. On the eighth anniversary of her death, the police interrogate Alex after two bodies are unearthed near the site of her murder, along items that seem to connect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by] Music Box Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TELSummary: Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Invictus 2009Summary: Begins in 1981 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. U.S.-Soviet elations are at their lowest point in more than a decade. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhney. Grigoriev begins passing him highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Synergitic Distribution 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FARSummary: Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOKSummary: Ira and Oscar, two kids from different cultures, develop an enduring friendship which triumphs over tragedy and teaches lasting lessons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FRISummary: Ben is from a Filipino-American family who is soon to graduate from high school. Currently, most of his family is preoccupied with an elaborate coming-out party being thrown for Ben's sister Rose. Ben isn't too thrilled about having to attend, so he invites his best friends Rick and Doug. To their surprise, Rick and Doug find themselves having a great time getting a glimpse of Filipino culture,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: During the Iran-Iraq war, an aging Iranian-Kurd musician hears that his wife, a singer with a magical voice, who deserted him for his best friend and fled to Iraq, is in trouble. He cons his two sons into accompanying him on the search and they embark on an adventure filled with music, romance and danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOY RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JOYSummary: Tom Powers (Cagney) begins his life of crime at an early age with boyhood companion Matt Doyle (Woods). Powers' eventual rise to a notorious prohibiton gangster is only darkened when a rival gang brutally murders his friend. Powers tries to avenge Doyle's death, but his efforts lead to a chilling and savage conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBSummary: A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM-UA Home Video 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADASummary: A corrupt millionaire junk dealer, embarrassed by his girlfriend's lack of social sophistication, arranges to have her trained in a crash course in "culture." He is surprised and outraged when after becoming aware of her role as pawn in his crooked business deals, she refuses to cooperate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BORSummary: Sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," and her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009