Summary: Disc one: After a daring diamond heist, all fingers point to crime boss Jimmy Vincent, released from prison on the very day of the robbery. When teenagers find the two-week-old corpse of Dominic Sylvester, everyone in the Willesden constabulary dismisses it as the lonely death of a reclusive old man - everyone, that is, except Davies. Bunny Hopper is half of the almost-famous comedy team Bunny...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates is an exemplary cop. He's got the best crime stats on the force and a loyal team working under him. But the head of the police anticorruption unit, Superintendent Ted Hastings, has his doubts about Gates. Is he really that good? And more importantly, is he really that clean? Hastings decides to find out and all on a new arrival to his department, Detective...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LINSummary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNISummary: Originally produced as episodes of the television program Homicide, life on the street in 1993 & 1994.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Arctic island town of Fortitude has survived the parasitic threat from last year, but another horrible death is discovered and the police must solve this barbaric murder. A mysterious stranger arrives, convinced that a demonic presence has been causing all the troubles, and has sworn to seek out and eradicate the demon in their midst.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FORSummary: Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midway 2020Summary: Glasgow's finest take on the city's worst crimes in Taggart, a gripping cop drama with a hard-edged Scottish burr. Witty scripts and deadpan humor give this quintessentially Scottish series universal appeal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGSummary: The men and women of the Baltimore Police Homicide Division keep pace with the killers who ensure thier skills will always be needed. Includes all 22 episodes from season four.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: When Terry Noonan returns to New York's Hell's Kitchen after a mysterious ten year absence, he immediately rejoins the Irish mob run by Frankie Flannery and soon finds himself torn between loyalty for his Irish cronies and loyalty to a secret that could bring them down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY STASummary: Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY ISummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: Car dealer Frank Mallon is watching his life fall apart around him. His wife has left, his cars aren't selling, and his teenage daughter, Corrina is out of control. When bank manager Desmond Rane tells Frank he's in financial trouble and is about to lose everything , Frank devises a plan to fix his money problems while also getting revenge on the people making his life miserable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLESummary: A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY STICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STISummary: In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMMSummary: A mild-mannered man visits Maigret, accusing his wife of wanting to poison him. Maigret then gets a visit from the man's wife, who accuses him of being neurotic. Is Maigret watching a domestic spat unfold, or is it a murder in the making?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MAISummary: Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think ... that's certainly true for Craig, a stressed-out teenager who checks himself into a mental health clinic for some time out. What he finds instead is an unlikely mentor, a potential new romance and an opportunity to begin anew. Charming, witty and smart, it's a coming-of-age story that's kind of a funny story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ITSSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For a young girl living a 'hard-knock life' in a children's orphanage, things may seem pretty bad -- especially at Christmas. But feisty Annie carries a song in her heart and hope in her locket -- the only thing she has from her parents. One day, fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. Her adventure takes her from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ANNSummary: A typical night for a group of war veterans at the local VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a teenage girl runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Suddenly under attack from a gang of punk mutants looking to get back what's theirs, at any cost, the vets use every weapon they can put together to protect the girl and their VFW in the biggest fight of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VFWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VFWSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After years of relative obscurity, Alice Guy Blach is now being recognized for her role in the development of the cinematic arts. Beginning as a typist for the Gaumont Company, she volunteered to produce a series of novelty films. So successful were her films, and so efficient her methods, she eventually became the studio's head of production. During cinema's first decade, the multi-talented...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALISummary: "In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists go to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group's radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018