Summary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002

Summary: When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000

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

Summary: 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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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Summary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016

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

Summary: Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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

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

Summary: The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021

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

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

Summary: Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems more important than ever that they go to a high school party, and achieve some of their long time goals. This includes, but is not limited to, losing thier virginity with the girls of their dreams by getting them wasted and being their "regret hookup." Their friend Fogell gets a fake...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUP

Summary: Planet terror: A small town sheriff's department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. The gun-legged Cherry and one-man wrecking crew El Wray try to save the world from the horde of flesh-eating...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co., LLC. 2010

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GRI

Summary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICE

Summary: Passions ignite and culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 2000

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

Summary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAI

Summary: A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AME

Summary: A former United States Air Force general and three other convicts escape from a military prison. The four men take over a nuclear base and proceed to hold America hostage, threatening to launch the base's missiles if they don't receive ten million dollars and if the president fails to release a top-secret document on the Vietnam War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012

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

Summary: The 47-year old Al Capone, after ten years in prison, suffering from syphilis and dementia, comes to be haunted by his violent past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CAP

Summary: Fading movie musical star Tony Hunter, down and out in Hollywood, decides to try his luck on the Broadway stage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BAN