Summary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERDietrich, Marlene
Summary: Young princess Catherine is forced into a marriage with Peter of Russia, and becomes the Empress Catherine the Great.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection/Universal 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCASummary: A soccer player and three other prisioners awaiting execution in a horrific detention center, risk their lives to escape. Based on the memoirs and testimony of two of the prisoners, who were later witnesses at a war crimes trial.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRSummary: Roxie agrees to be accused of murder so the publicity will advance her dancing career. Whether she actually committed the crime is irrelevant to the reporters, who fall all over themselves to give Roxie her 15 minutes of fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Roxie 2004Summary: The first film to mix horror and comedy, tells of a beatnik coffeehouse busboy who finds acceptance as a sculptor until the terrible truth behind his work is revealed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BUCSummary: After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a travelling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WSummary: Allan Quatermain is hired by an Englishwoman to lead the hunt for her missing husband and the search for the fabled King Solomon's diamond mines in uncharted regions of Africa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of Adele Hugo's obsessive love affair which led her to run away from home to follow her womanizing lover across an ocean to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: During World War II, the commander of an Eighth Air Force bomber group in England drives his men to the point of breaking until he himself cracks under the strain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWESummary: A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AIRSummary: Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramificications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DAYSummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Harry, his best friend Tyrone, his girlfriend Marion, and his mother all struggle with drug addiction against a backdrop of the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REQSummary: Johnny is the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hellbent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WILSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tears 2003Summary: Persuaded to help a desperate friend for a $6 million payday, an expert safecracker postpones his retirement to pull off one last heist with a novice thief. Their foolproof plan turns into a high risk gamble when a clash of egos threatens to bring them both down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SCOSummary: Okinawa 1946, occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge, Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford), is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily Okinawan interpreter, Sakini (Marlon Brando), and a determined geisha girl, Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo), along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2006