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: Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOY

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

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

Summary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...

Format: moving image

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOT

Summary: In 1987, James Brennan's dreams of a European summer vacation before studying at an Ivy League school in New York City are ruined after his parents have a severe career setback. As a result, James must get a summer job to cover his upcoming expenses. He goes to work at the decrepit local amusement park, Adventureland - a place where the games are rigged and the rides make you sick. There, he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Films 2009

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

Summary: Set in the future, a young man looks for a better life outside his small rural village in Mexico-- but finds himself facing a technological dystopia when he attempts to cross the border.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2009

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SLE

Summary: The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

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

Summary: The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family I Can 2018

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

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

Summary: An epic portrait of late sixties America as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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

Summary: "What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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

Summary: In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking viewers back to where it all began, the film tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA STR

Summary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970s England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions, fueled by his music, slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008

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

Summary: "In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the Philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC QUA

Summary: On a typical day in South Central Los Angeles two buddies need to settle a $200 debt, but in their efforts to come up with the money they encounter the distractions and obstacles of family, friends, and neighbors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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

Summary: U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022

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

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

Summary: Miracle mile: A young man named Harry hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit Los Angeles in less than two hours. Not sure if the whole thing is a dire warning or a harmless prank, Harry races through the city, fighting mobs of terrified people in a desperate search for Julie, a young woman he only met yesterday and the one person with whom he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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

Summary: The true story of the Temptations, the vocal soul group of the 1960s, as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving member, Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late '50s and continuing through the '90s and the deaths of the other four members.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment Inc. 2011

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

Waid, Mark

Summary: "In the past two years, the little town of Riverdale has changed in a number of amazing ways. The entire Archie universe has been given a fresh coat of paint and it's only getting bigger and better from here. Road to Riverdale presents to readers all of the first issues of each of our new series so far, including Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Josie and the Pussycats, and Reggie & Me,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comic Publications 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 ROA