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Apartheid South Africa Drama Beauty contests California Drama Feature films Gregory, James 1941- Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Mandela, Nelson 1918- Drama Prison wardens South Africa Biography Drama Prisoners South Africa Biography Drama South Africa Drama South Africa History 1961-1994 DramaSummary: When Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac accepts a U.N. peacekeeper position in postwar Bosnia, she discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost. With masterful acting and a heart-racing plot, an acclaimed film inspired by actual events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WHISummary: Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SINSummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A proud but aging jewelry salesman is forced to train his own replacement, a brash kid whose every move rubs him in the wrong way. In no time at all, the kid talks his mentor into curing his loneliness at a smalltown massage parlor. Just as quickly the traveling twosome find out that gems, girls and guns make for a dangerous combination.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DIASummary: Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the well respected current events and policy magazine 'The new republic'. He was also a freelance writer featured in 'Rolling Stone', 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'George'. By the mid 1990's, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington. That is until a bizarre chain of events suddenly stopped his career right in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over, again, for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. While there, Lily, discovers a well spring of emotional "love songs" (ballads) that have been passed down through generations from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who have settled in the area....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONSummary: Hans, a fruit peddler, watches his unexceptional life disintegrate. Seduced and rejected to the point of a nervous breakdown, Hans drinks himself to death as he toasts his loved ones at the dinner table.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MERSummary: Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage- but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BROSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: Charlie, who has recently lost control over his life, searches New York City for a mysterious stranger who holds the key to his recovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA URBSummary: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her. Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, Grover, Otis, Max and Skippy remain on campus, denying the real-world futures awaiting them. Nobody wants to radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, who tends bar and is in his tenth year. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows never to play again, and embarks on one last journey to return the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QueenCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUE RATED PG-13Summary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVESummary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SWICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, Bilal, has struggled his way through Europe in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend, who has emigrated to England. When he is stopped in France, he decides to swim the English Channel to complete his journey. While training at a local swimming pool he meets Simon, a middle-aged swim instructor, who agrees to help Bilal, in order to regain the affection of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WELSummary: In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDUSummary: 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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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIN RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie King's 2011Summary: A devoutly religious mother of two ailing children has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast. Her two children both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting the rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When one of the children claims to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly arrived family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2002
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR OTHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OTHSummary: "Antonio, a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock, a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio woo the fair Portia. Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed him but soon learns that those to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Merchant 2005Summary: Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONLSummary: Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIT