Summary: A writer is asked to speak by her old professor. Soon she is deeply involved in the lives of a group of students.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I

Summary: Combines interviews, home videos, and archival concert footage to document the creation of the Wailer's classic reggae album, Catch a Fire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BOB

Summary: Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SER

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 PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: The search begins. For the mistress and the son of a mob boss. For Barry 'Bottomless Pit' Rosen, missing soon after he won a competitive chili-eating contest. For an air traffic controller who reported possible terrorist activity. For a basketball star, a stripper, a victim of Hurricane Katrina. Some of them are reunited with loved ones. Some remain forever missing. All are part of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIT

Summary: Season four of this procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad, a unique New York based FBI task force, finds Martin gravely injured in the line of fire and going through rehabilitation. Jack, Samantha, and Danny try not to let their concern for Martin hinder their efforts. Vivian's heart surgery appears to have been a success. Rookie, Elena Delgado, formerly of the NYPD, has joined the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIT

Summary: Set against the Russian Civil War. Vavilova has to make a decision between motherhood for revolutionary martyrdom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COM

Summary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010

Summary: View all 10 short films nominated for the 79th annual Academy Award. Includes the live action short winner and the animated short winner.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COL

Summary: A trucker, whose CB nickname is "Rubber Duck," is pursued through three states by an implacable police officer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2015

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CON

Summary: Two feuding brothers try to drive each other out of the used car business. To add to the problems, one salesman (who is working as a used car salesman as training for his political career) ends up creating even more problems.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY USE

Summary: On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOO

Summary: Did Henry Kissinger sabatoge the 1968 Vietnam peace talks for his own personal gain? Did he orchestrate the secret bombing of Cambodia? Did he authorize covert operations to overthrow a Chilean President? This explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in United States history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRI

Summary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEA

Summary: Despite their best efforts, the team members are only human. As the agents work on varied and complicated cases, details about their personal lives continue to unfold. This season, Samantha Spade deals with being a single mom and resourceful agent Elena Delgado recovers from a recent and unpleasant custody battle with her ex.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIT

Summary: Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESC

Summary: Tillie's Punctured Romance (71 min.) : Charlie, the dapper city guy, woos Tillie, the farmer's daughter, to get her father's money. However he just can't seem to get the money away from Tillie to enjoy time with his other girl.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Grapevine Video 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL

Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Summary: Filmed over several weeks, "Bergman Island" is an impressively intimate look at the waning hours of one of cinema's true legends. Granted unprecedented access to the man himself, Marie Nyreröd captures stories from Bergman that cover his entire life to that point. Bergman is remarkably candid, whether he's discussing his abusive father or his last directorial effort, Saraband. Even those not...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BER

Summary: "The town Christmas forgot: An urban family that can not seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town's home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town's problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays. Naughty or nice: After she is suddenly fired from her job,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2014

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HAL

Summary: The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELV

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELV

Summary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER SIL