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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans Drama African Americans in motion pictures Charrière, Henri 1906-1973 Charrière, Henri 1906-1973 Drama Entertainers Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Minneapolis (Minn.) Drama Superheroes DramaSummary: Meet McKenna Brooks, a determined and confident young gymnast, in this all-new, modern-day adventure. McKenna is on track to make the regional competitive gymnastics team, but off track in school, where she's suddenly struggling to keep up. When her teacher suggests a tutor, she's embarrassed and desperate to keep it a secret from her friends. Then a bad fall at the gym sidetracks her from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AmCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: No longer the new girl in town, Mary has come to think of the newsroom staff as family. But along with the good times and close friendships come the often trying and ultimately hilarious situations every family faces. From Mary explaining the facts of life to Phyllis' daughter to going on a blind date to attending her disastrous high school reunion, Mary has to cope with every situation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANSummary: This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Shultz.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DJA RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DjCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN DJASummary: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAY RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ray 2005Summary: The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MASSummary: Babo 73: The president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSummary: While hanging out after school, Charlie and his friends discover the headquarters of the world's most powerful superhero hidden beneath his home. When villains attack, they must team up to defend the headquarters and save the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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Summary: Three very different sisters find ways to support their family in 1920's Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LILSummary: With the help of his misfit mechanical friends, a small town robot named Rodney embarks on the adventure of a lifetime as he heads for the big city to pursue his dreams and ultimately proves that anyone can shine no matter what they're made of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROBGermi, Pietro
Summary: A man bed hops from woman to woman until his philandering catches up with him when he impregnates his fiancée's younger sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEDSummary: Contains the 23 first-run episodes of the entire first season of CSI. Witness how the evidence of crime can "see" the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Kwai Chang Caine is a Shoalin Monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emporer's nephew. The nephew had killed Caine's teacher in cold blood with a gun like a coward. Caine flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down in this new land. However, he can not help but to continually run into trouble from gun fighters and others as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KUNSummary: Thrilling adventure of imprisonment and escape(s) from a French Guiana prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Papillon 1999Summary: In a parallel Earth ruled by the Crime Syndicate, the Justice League must fight their evil doppelgangers in a battle that would be dead even, except that their malicious counterparts are willing to do the one thing Batman and Superman never would: kill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JUSSummary: It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEG RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LeCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LEGSummary: Called to the neutral zone to help negotiate peace between the Romulans and the Federation, Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are confronted by the mysterious new Romulan Praetor Shinzon, a man who claims to be Picard's clone, and who plans to lead a Romulan attack on the Federation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005