Summary: Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors heralding the rise of National Socialism. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm but the authorities believe he is the problem.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Summary: London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift in the empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face her own traumatic past in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR POW

Summary: A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRI RATED PG-13

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRI

Summary: When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY HORROR TAL

Summary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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

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

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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAN

Summary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOL
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD GOL

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

Summary: Cast adrift in Los Angeles, Sean, a lonely TV weatherman, drives past a middle-aged Latino migrant worker standing outside a hardware store looking for work. He decides to hire this kind-looking man to be his friend. Sean is young, gay, and white. Ernesto, portly, straight, and married. Despite having nothing in common and the language barrier, they build a sort of friendship, until Sean...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Sam is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment's swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY UND

Summary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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

Summary: When the mutilated corpse of a young gay man is found in a smart Bondi Beach apartment, Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned the case. Is this brutal murder a domestic disturbance, a robbery gone wrong, or a gay hate crime? With mounting evidence to suggest the perpetrator has killed before, they start digging through old investigations and the discovery is shocking. They...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEE

Summary: At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performances, a dysfunctional sonic collective faces power struggles, vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in nineteenth century England is faced with a new challenge, an army of undead zombies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: "Pitch black": Journey to a remote, hostile planet with a group of marooned passengers who learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. ""Dark fury": Riddick battles ruthless soldiers of fortune and vicious creatures. "The chronicles of Riddick": Riddick finds himself humanity's unlikely champion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006

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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI RID

Summary: "A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Marlowe

Summary: Witness a hellish vision of 1999, as social isolation, analog technology, and disturbing home videos fuse into a nightmare of found footage savagery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shudder 2023

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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR V/H

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

Summary: A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatches plans of their breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Poker

Summary: A true story of humanity and heroism, this film vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

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

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

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: A trip back home to Glasgow presents James with a dilemma that will mean choosing between the people he loves. As Helen and James navigate their feelings for one another, Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs. Hall are also forced to consider their places in the world, while James must decide between supporting his family or following his heart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ALL

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV ALL

Summary: From the moment the new reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows she and her family are in great danger.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY WESTERN BRI