Summary: Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMA

Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

(FORD, HARRISON, PERF.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1981

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

Summary: Enjoy the twisted tale of two assassins carrying out a sinister mission, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor, and a curious waitress leading a dangerous double life. Murderous consequences unravel in the dead of night as their lives all intertwine at the hands of a mysterious criminal mastermind hellbent on revenge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: Sue works in a library; her son Daniel eats chips and listens to Metallica. When his father and stepmother cancel his summer plans to visit them in Florida at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies, and pursue their passions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: After super villain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEE

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

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

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

Summary: Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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

Summary: Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of quirky film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free. The film is an award-winning underdog story about The Mahoning Drive-in Theater.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2019

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AT

Summary: Explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost Boys" from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. Chronicles their triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and a relocation to the United States, where the Lost Boys build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping friends and family they have left behind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GOD

Summary: Evert Baackstromis a rock star among cops. Starring as a TV expert doesn't help his ego or reputation. He thinks he's a genius, and he is, at solving crimes. When a woman's skull is found, it seems she was murdered recently, but DNA points to her death in the 2004 tsunami. Prosecutor Hanna Hwassbelieves it's a mistake, but Backstrom sees a case only he can solve: a woman who has died twice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: A documentary based on a series of interviews with Paul Bowles shortly before his death and anecdotes provided by his friends and collaborators including Gore Vidal, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Walters, Ruth Fainlight, Edmund White, William Burroughs, Francis Bacon and many others --Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features [distributor] 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAU

Summary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAI

Summary: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. The harsh Irish landscape combined with the myths, fables, and songs of his Connemara youth helped shape this fascinating character. Enigmatic and complex, Heaney's devotion to his art came at a huge personal cost. But by the time of his death in 1984, he was widely recognized as one of the most important figures in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SON

Summary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAN

Summary: John James Audubon's story is dramatic and surprising. He was not born in America, but saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone alive. His growing apprehension about the destruction of nature became his prophecy. As an artist and naturalist his achievements were monumental. John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature creates a meaningful portrait of Art and Science in the first...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2016

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOH

Summary: Profiles the Pink Panthers, a gang of international jewel thieves responsible for stealing nearly one billion dollars worth of jewels.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SMA

Summary: "An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Life According to Sam follows one family's courageous fight to save their only son from a rare and fatal aging disease. Directed by Oscar winners Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine (Inocente), this highly personal and life-affirming journey is propelled by the captivating presence of Sam Berns. Funny, perceptive and fiercely intelligent,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIF

Summary: When Victor's family moves into his grand-uncle's mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts - and a dark secret: forty years ago a girl, at the same age that he is now, mysteriously disappeared. With his detective instinct kindled, Victor makes it his mission to solve the case. But after he finds the girl's diary, filled with mysterious drawings showing that the mansion may...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Contents: Disc one: Let no man steal your thyme / The Pentangle -- Willow's song (from The Wicker Man) / Magnet -- Come all your travellers / Wight -- Love is a funny thing / Spirogyra -- Images of passing clouds / Garry Farr -- Peek strangely and worried evening / Synanthesia -- Glass of water / Bob and Carole Pegg -- Winter is blue / Vashti Bunyan -- Winter is a coloured bird / Comus -- The Seagulls...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DUS

Summary: Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, this captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cité Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in the film to the surprise and consternation of the local community, who...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOR