Summary: Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MISSummary: Mac and Dal, two brothers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War, return home to Texas to discover that their sisters and Dal's sweetheart have been kidnapped by rampaging Rebel guerrillas refusing to accept the defeat of the Confederacy. With the help of their notorious uncle, Mac and Dal must rescue the women before they can be sold into a Mexican brothel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ShadowSummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: Albuquerque: When Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his successful uncle John, he soon learns that family business is out to eliminate any local competition. Tiring of his uncle's underhanded tactics, Cole switches to rival operation run by Ted Wallace and his sister, Celia. But Cole soon learns John Armin is to a man to be crossed as the trio must fight for their business, and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLASummary: Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THR RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THRSummary: When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, he (Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under his tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COWSummary: Set in 1901. After a heated misunderstanding due to poor translation leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight from the Texas Rangers, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BALSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Cry macho: When an aging rodeo star takes a job of bringing the teenage son of his former boss from Mexico, where he lives with his alcoholic mother, to his father's ranch in Texas, he connects with the boy and finds redemption through teaching the boy what it meansto be a man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRYSummary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PowerCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POWSummary: Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2003
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TRESummary: The Cowboys: When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, he (Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under his tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CowSummary: The story of the three Sackett brothers, Tye, Orrin, and Tell, who leave Tennessee to start new lives in the West; not being a man to settle down, cowhand Conn Conagher drifts in and out of widow Evie Teale's life; career outlaw Catlow attempts to take some Confederate gold, with his friend, a U.S. marshal, and a ruthless bounty hunter on his tail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie L'Amour 2010Summary: "A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement--2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CimarronSummary: "This is a western like no other, combining the mythological scope of that most American of genres with the searing naturalism of a performance by Marlon Brando--all suffused with Freudian overtones and masculine anxiety. In his only directing stint, Brando captures rugged coastal and desert landscapes in gorgeous widescreen, Technicolor images, and elicits from his fellow actors (including...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN ONEEastwood, Clint
Summary: Josey Wales is on the run after avenging his family's murder, and he must protect the group of people who have come to follow him; one man stands up to the corporate mining boss who is out to kill independent miners during the California gold rush; whilestruggling to keep his modern-day Wild West traveling show open, Bronco Billy meets a rich woman who seems to bring bad luck to him and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SEASummary: After a sea captain arrives in the Old West to marry the daughter of a wealthy rancher, he becomes caught up in the confrontations of the people around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BIGSummary: Set in the 1820s Pacific Northwest, a cook and a Chinese immigrant come up with a scheme to strike it rich involving a wealthy businessman's prized dairy cow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA FIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIRSummary: Hondo Lane, a cavalry rider, becomes the designated protector of Angie Lowe and her son, Johnny. Angie, who is waiting for the return of her brutish husband, refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing dangers from nearby warring Native American tribes. Angie's feelings begin to grow for Hondo, but she has no idea that her husband is dead and Hondo is the one who killed him. Special...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Reilly, John C.
Summary: Follows the notorious hit men duo, the Sisters brothers, as they pursue a gold prospector in the Old West and get caught up in the Gold Rush.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2019