Summary: "Growing up in rural Laos, Ahlo ... is a mischievous 10-year-old who lives without a care in the world. After a family tragedy, his grandmother declares that Ahlo is cursed, and as they are forcibly moved from their land and fall deeper into poverty, he starts to believe it. Only the friendship of an orphaned girl and her eccentric James Brown-loving uncle restore joy in his life. Traveling...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Kino Lorber 2014

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROC RATED NR

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: Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHA

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

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CHA

Summary: Set in 1955, the residents of a small Montana community are forced to move their homes to make way for a new dam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOR

Summary: A chronicle of the life of a Buddhist monk from childhood to the end of his days.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: New York City, November 1988. Bobby Green is the manager of a Russian nightclub owned by Marat Buzhayev. The club is frequented by gangsters like Buzhayev's nephew Vadim. Despite Bobby's hedonistic and amoral lifestyle, he is committed to his girlfriend Amada. Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Captain Joseph Grusinsky and his father, Bert, is a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: Two friends meet after being apart for years- one in the United States studying film, and the other a professor at a university. When they start talking they realize they both loved the same woman, and decide to go find her to see if any sparks fly.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2007

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

Summary: A restless, streetwise 21-year-old has had trouble gaining the trust of others all his life. Now he is forced to deal with the reality of impending fatherhood. Needing quick cash, he joins a bodyguard company. He makes friends with a once disillusioned mercenary determined to begin life in a new way, since he is also about to become a father. However, their companionship is brief and they both...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SNO
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SNO

Summary: A championship ballroom dancer who's breaking all the rules and his ugly duckling dancing partner make their dreams come true together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: Charlie St. Cloud is a small-town hero and an accomplished sailor who has it all: the adoration of his mother and younger brother and a Stanford scholarship. His bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. Now Charlie is torn between honoring a promise he made years ago and pursuing his newfound love with a former high school classmate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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

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

Summary: In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: "When a young man notices several thefts of sought-after Tibetan mastiffs from local farms, he decides to sell his family's dog before it is stolen and sold on the black market. His father, an aging Tibetan herder, is furious when he discovers their dog missing. His search to buy back his dog leads to a series of tragicomic events that threaten to tear the family apart, while showing the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2012

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

Summary: Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs,"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BLA

Summary: Dennis Peck knows how to get around the law, because he is a cop. Raymond Avilla is the investigator who is determined to bring Peck to justice, even as Peck threatens Avilla's career, marriage, and sanity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY INT

Summary: Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2015

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Unbroken 2015

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

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

Summary: A riveting parable about what happens to a man who refuses to change, even when change is the only thing that can save him. Dave Brown, a man who has taken the 'no guts, no glory' American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear, is a cop whose personal life is propelled into a dizzying downward spiral when he comes under suspicion for roughing up a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2012

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

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

Summary: Tom Johnson had it all: a loving wife, an adorable son and a partnership in a growing company. But when a car crash takes his life, he is forced to start over again, this time as ... a dog! Tom awakens in the body of Fluke, a canine who happily romps around a junkyard until visions of his former life become too strong to ignore. Compelled to find his original family, Fluke makes every attempt...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2001

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

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2005

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

Kim, Seung-Woo

Summary: A fickle filmmaker falls for a young woman and then leaves her, but when he tries to recreate the romance, he meets her again under awkward circumstances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008

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

Summary: Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2006

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Akeelah 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AKE

Summary: A second-generation petty thief arranges to get out of prison to spend time with his ailing son by taking on a job with his father to pay back the syndicate that arranged his release.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003

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

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

Summary: Centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal that happens to involve his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy, but the entire NYPD.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009

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