Summary: Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and out thought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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

Dench, Judi

Summary: An elderly widow is arrested by MI5 and charged with being a spy for the Soviet government.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2019

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

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

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

Summary: The passionate and forbidden romance between the insane Danish King, the royal physician, and the young but strong-willed Queen leads to a revolution that changes an entire nation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROY
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROY

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

Summary: Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenged his unbelief.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

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

Summary: After completing the Statue of Liberty, celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel is on top of the world. Now, the French government is pressuring him to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair. Eiffel₂s design plans suddenly change when he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Their long-lost, forbidden passion inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIS

Summary: In August, 1892 Lizzie Borden is famously charged with the murder of her stepmother and father. It causes a huge media sensation, perhaps the first example of a tabloid court case. But what really happened on that night? Did Lizzie really do it? What happened in her quietly idyllic Massachusetts life that unfurled this chain of events? Did her father's strict hand send her down this treacherous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018

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

Summary: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIN RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie King's 2011

Summary: A ragtag group of Knights Templar hold out for months against the hard-fought siege of Rochester Castle in the thirteenth century. Set in the time of King John's signing of the Magna Carta treaty, the group struggles against the king to defend the freedom of their country.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by ARC Entertainment 2011

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

Summary: 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 WOM

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF Wo

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

Summary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014

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3 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WIN

Summary: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Summary: Queen Victoria was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MRS.

Summary: After marrying 'Willy', a successful Parisian writer, Colette is transplanted to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation, inspiring additional Claudine novels. Colette's fight over creative ownership and gender roles...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD COL

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

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

Summary: A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022

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

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

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

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

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

Summary: J. Edgar Hoover was head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD

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

Summary: When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999

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