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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: This stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and Pagansim, humankind and nature, and love and violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWISummary: In September 2003, freelance Iraqi cameraman Yunis Khatayer Abbas was arrested and accused of planning to kill Tony Blair. This documentary is a fascinating portrait of an ordinary man trying to make sense of an absurd and nightmarish situation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRISummary: Follows a group of U.S. soldiers as they create new lives post-Iraq from a Congressional candidate in Buffalo to a cage fighter in Louisiana, set against the backdrop of the 2008 election.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films & Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOWSummary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADVSummary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XSummary: Years after he fought his way out of prison, Ray Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from to save his friend from the prison's brutal human battleground, known as Hades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EsSummary: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DENSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Henry, a psychopathic drifter who has left a trail of bodies in his wake, settles for a while at the dilapidated Chicago apartment of ex-prison mate Otis. Into this toxic environment comes Otis's younger sister Becky, who's fleeing an abusive marriage and looking for a place to stay. Deflecting her brother's incestuous advances, Becky finds herself attracted to Henry and sees him as a potential...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY HENSummary: Oliver Stone's chronicle of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the mystery enshrouding it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Eighteen months ago, mother-of-three Faith had her cozy life thrown into chaos after the disappearance of her husband, Evan. Still striving to keep her family together, Faith must fulfill Evan's debt to a vicious crime family even as she fights her attraction to a former client. Then a local farmer is found dead, and his wife, Madlen, is arrested for his murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KEESummary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TENSummary: Anna and Ben are a couple who can't stop fighting. Advised by their therapist to try and work through their grief unconventionally, they are reminded of their shared love of music. In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, they decide to turn all their fights into song, and with the help of their neighbor Dave, they start a band.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BANSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: Like fish bait cast into a pool of sharks, idealistic Dorfmann arrives in Brussels with visions of a united Europe to serve an ambitious British Director of the European Economic Community, Michael Spearpoint. Planning to get rich exploiting the newly-liberated nations of Eastern Europe, wily bureaucrats and entrepreneurs compete to misuse the naïve Dorfmann, dubbed "Prince Stupid," for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRASummary: In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONSummary: Inspired by true events, this supernatural thriller follows a seminary student sent to study exorcism at the Vatican in spite of his own doubts about the controversial practice and even his own faith. Only when sent to apprentice with legendary Father Lucas, who has performed thousand of exorcisms, does his armor of skepticism begin to fall. Drawn into a troubling case that transcends even...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RITSummary: DS Gina Jenkins discovers a mutilated body on the beach, setting off a search for a serial killer. With Gina consumed by the investigation, her brother, Sam, returns home from prison and struggles to start a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BANSummary: A new mockumentary that looks at the exciting world of local government. Examines the mundane but necessary ways that people interact with their government, and asks why it's frequently so complicated - standing in line at the DMV, applying for home construction permits, or trying to get the city to fix a pothole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pa 1Summary: Bob and his wife Carol are a sophisticated California couple who attend a secluded institute for group therapy. Their original intention is to merely observe, but they become so involved that they decide to test the strength of their marital trust and honesty by experimenting with mutually tolerated affairs. Ted and Alice are their closest friends who find themselves continually amused at the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2004