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Summary: Tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted in Washington, D.C., and forced to spend the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12 YCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Twelve 2014Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED RSummary: "FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Selects 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The true story of Benedict Arnold, a man trapped by pride and love. After being disgraced by the Continental Congress and resigning his comission, Arnold is coaxed back into service. But his marriage to a loyalist woman leads to scandal, and the lack of support he received drives him to defect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BENSummary: A boy, a girl, a bushman, and a dog wander across the desert in order to escape elephant poachers who want them dead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARSummary: A little girl and her dying mother obtain the services of a talented cook. What begins as a six-month arrangement spans fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Codeblack Films / Lionsgate 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MR.Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mr. 2016Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MrSummary: Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: Abby Johnson becomes the youngest clinic director in the history of Planned Parenthood, then a life-changing experience turns her into an anti-abortion activist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movei Unplanned 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. Based on an incredible true story, ARTHUR THE KING follows Light, desperate for one last chance to win, as he convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Balto is a true American hero. Join this courageous canine and his daughter, Aleu, as they embark on a thrilling journey of adventure and self-discovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BALSummary: A dozen souls, all moving in different directions, all longing for something more. As their lives unexpectedly intersect, they each are about to discover there is power in the Cross of Christ, even if they don't yet believe it. From the creators of God's Not Dead comes this stirring new film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DoSummary: A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family God's 2016Summary: Includes film from the May 2009 mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as images captured by the telescope, and a series of scientifically realistic space flights based on Hubble data.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUBSummary: New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Men 2008Summary: An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during his Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRO RATED RSummary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNASummary: Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WomanCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF WoCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMSummary: Set in 1950s Detroit, the movie centers on a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes wrong, their search for who hired them and for what ultimate purpose weaves them through all echelons of the race-torn, rapidly changing city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie NoCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOSummary: One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOW RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NOWSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: When Saoirse and Ben's mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her, and in the process, discover mystical secrets about both their mother and Saoirse herself. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SONScharf, Yuval
Summary: The rivalry between father and son professors of Talmudic studies comes to a head when the father is slated to receive Israel's most prestigious national award for his work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOOSummary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER AMESummary: Viewers will see the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story that traces the marriage equality movement's historic progress and reveals the masterminds who fought.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRESummary: On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023