Summary: Detective Virgil Tibbs has been assigned to solve the murder of a prostitute. His pal, a political-minded minister who is spearheading a referendum on community control, is suspected of the homicide and Tibbs is faced with the decision of whether or not to invesigate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001

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

Summary: Wake Island: A handful of U.S. Marines holdout against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2011

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CLA

Summary: Based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a New England farm boy who has decided that the Lord has commanded him to go to Hawaii in order to Christianize its inhabitants.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HAW

Summary: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY IN

Summary: While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime, and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie In 2001

Summary: A chance meeting between an accountant and a housewife results in a 26-year affair where they meet only once a year.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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