Summary: 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: A riveting parable about what happens to a man who refuses to change, even when change is the only thing that can save him. Dave Brown, a man who has taken the 'no guts, no glory' American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear, is a cop whose personal life is propelled into a dizzying downward spiral when he comes under suspicion for roughing up a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAMSummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Summary: A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Joy 2016Summary: Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE INDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF InSummary: A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AMESummary: Follow five carnival workers who are kidnapped and forced to participate in a violent game. The goal of the game is to survive twelve hours against a gang of crazy killer clowns. Rob Zombie's most brutal film to date!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 31Summary: The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHASummary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILFishburne, Laurence
Summary: As a new Ice Age envelops Earth, survivors of Colony 7 answer a distress call from another outpost and find a threat that may annihilate all of humanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLSummary: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANGSummary: New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DIELawrence, Jennifer
Summary: With the games destroyed and Peeta captured, Katniss becomes the symbol of the rebellion while trying to rescue Peeta from the Capitol.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mockingjay 2015Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HUNSummary: Two passengers board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction, only to be threatened by the imminent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAS RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PaSummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHElliott, Sam
Summary: After he receives a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, a former Western film star re-evaluates his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HER RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HERSummary: It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSSummary: The lady, Grace Elliot, was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales. She left him for Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVI. The film opens a year after the fall of the Bastille, and while their affair is over, Grace and the Duc have stayed close friends. But just because they're friends doesn't mean they can't (and don't) have powerful political arguments. Organized around five...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADSummary: Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship - at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An original musical screenplay brings to life the story of P.T. Barnum and his creation of "the greatest show on Earth". Rising from nothing, P.T. sets out to make a better life for his family. His creativity and drive take him on an fantastic journey beyond what he or anyone else could have imagined. In the end he creates a magical experience that will be enjoyed and celebrated by generations...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018