Summary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARSummary: City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, this television program became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. In these episodes, Collinwood's surly caretaker, Matthew Morgan, informs Victoria Winters that he believes the ghost of Josette Collins and other spirits inhabit the estate. In an attempt to settle the controversy surrounding the manslaughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, this television program became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. In these episodes, when Victoria Winters searches the Old House for David Collins, she is abducted and held captive by Matthew Morgan, the Collinses' fugitive caretaker who is hiding following the death of family friend Bill Malloy. A massive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: Jewish-American journalist, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in January of 2002. The violent act became an international scandal as the group that claimed responsibility for the crime demanded the liberation of prisoners from the American detainee prison in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba. The American government does not give in to the terrorists' demands. Mariane travels to Pakistan and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIGSummary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HillSummary: Eighteen of Alfred Hitchcock's early films (1926-1939), and two episodes of his television program (1955-1962). Includes 55 minutes of movie trailers spanning Hitchcock's legendary career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ALFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HITSummary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Summary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TULSummary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMSummary: A trio of British Muslims, known as the Tipton Three, were held in Guantánamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROASummary: Luis, a homosexual, and Valentin, a political prisoner are mismatched cell mates in a South American prison. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. Eventually, the two men come to understand and respect one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KISSummary: In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZSummary: Guru Pitka is an American-born, Indian-raised guru who was taught to become an expert in matters of love. Now, a world famous spiritual advisor, he guides hundreds of followers. A way for Pitka to increase his popularity is by helping to heal the troubled relationship between Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Darren Roanoke and his wife, Prudence. Jane Bullard is the owner of the Maple Leafs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVSummary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020