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VariousSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VSummary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROSummary: The story of country music singer Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Walk 2006Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED PG-13Summary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOSVarious
Summary: In John Adams' opera, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists explore the moral implications of the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DOCSummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBSummary: On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRA RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DrCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DRASummary: Set against the golden age of Formula One racing in the 1970s, Rush is based on the true story of a spectacular sporting rivalry between English playboy James Hunt, and his structured, intelligent opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUS RATED RSummary: Television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedys during the 1960s. Dramatizes the scandal, tragedy, public greatness and private frailty of America's first "royal" family during one of the most momentous decades in history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kennedys Production (Ontario), inc. 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KENSummary: Hoping to earn extra money, an innocent and reserved scholarship student at an exclusive prep school agrees to look after a blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel, who takes him off for a wild weekend in New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SCESummary: In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SALSummary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNASummary: Rebel outlaw Robin Hood outwits the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisbourne, and saves the throne for the absent King Richard I.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Adventures 2010Summary: Basada en una historia real, Voces inocentes es una cuenta la conmovedora historia de Chava, un niño de once años que atrapado en medio de la guerra civil de los años 80 en El Salvador, tiene que convertirse en "el hombre de la casa" después de que su padre los abandona.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VOCSummary: When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY GRESummary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COMSummary: Adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's classic tale set in England in the Middle Ages. Also includes a Tom and Jerry cartoon, The Two Mouseketeers, and a swashbuckler movie trailer gallery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IVASummary: In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: "Based on director Bob Fosse's own extravagant life, this vibrant and spectacular film follows Fosse's alter ego. Joe Gideon in his relentless pursuit of sex, drugs and self-destruction. His womanizing both supports and debilitates him as he juggles his mistress, ex-wife and beloved daughter. Hovering over all of his excess is an angel. The proceedings are set amid rapturous dream sequences,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007