Summary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: Jason is an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics. He makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan; an enigmatic and skillful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Hades, the god of the underworld, takes his family, Perseus embarks on a mission to defeat him before he can seize ultimate power and unleash hell on earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CLA RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Clash 2010Summary: "A close-knit team of six young men sailed away from Ireland in 1977 with dreams of a better life. Thirty years later, they reunite at the wake after one of them suddenly dies. Hardened by years of disappointment and drink, they quickly realize that their bonds of friendship have weakened, provoking regret, jealousy and tension. As they reveal their guilty feelings about their dead friend and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: The true dauphin is kidnapped and imprisoned, but the villains fail to take into account D'Artagnan and the three musketeers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IROSummary: The film follows a group of misfit kids as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOOSummary: Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IND RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INDSummary: This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distibuted in the USA by Phase 4 Films 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSummary: Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver's connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1996
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CHASummary: Pippi learns that her father has been kidnapped by a band of pirates. She, along with Tommy and Annika, sets sail for the South Seas to rescue him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PIPSummary: When a mysterious drifter breaks into a mansion, he discovers a lonely, beautiful woman trapped in an abusive marriage. When she escapes on the back of his motorcycle, their romantic adventures are just beginning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THRSummary: Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SIXSummary: A western adventure spanning three generations, the breadth of a wild, unsettled country, and fifty of the most excitingly turbulent years of this nation's history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Kai is an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. They embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY INKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD INKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV INKSummary: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods. The characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class in an epic battle that must change the past; to save our future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD X-MenCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE X-MECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE XMECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD X-MEN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XMESummary: An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003