Summary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pittman is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts. Especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pittman. Each man will have the tables turned on him in a twisting, turning Wild West tale of brawls, chases, shootouts and wry wit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THESummary: Luis, a homosexual, and Valentin, a political prisoner are mismatched cell mates in a South American prison. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. Eventually, the two men come to understand and respect one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KISSummary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GRESummary: Set in a near-future where the economy has crumbled and violent gangs play havoc in the streets, the powers-that-be have decided to lure the delinquent youth into drive-in cinemas and keep them there. No longer just a place to watch trashy movies and make out, these outdoor picture shows have become concentration camps for the unruly and unwanted. Two people have mistakenly been sent there, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ricky takes revenge on the drug-pushing thugs who killed his girlfriend. Sentenced to a prison term, Ricky is confronted by a host of evil characters, including a sadistic warden, his assistant, and The Gang of Four, a group of powerful fighters who control fellow inmates through terror and threat of death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyo Shock 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this fact-based story, a convict is confined to the dungeons of Alcatraz for three years in isolation after a failed escape. When he at last emerges from the total darkness, he's confused, savage, barely human, and he immediately kills the stoolie who ratted on his escape. It's an open-and-shut case of Murder One. But his resolute attorney puts Alcatraz and its sadistic associate warden on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MURSummary: Michael Peterson was 19 years old in 1974. Reckless, and hoping to make a name for himself, he picked up a homemade sawed-off shotgun and set off to rob a post office. Caught and arrested soon after, he was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison. Ultimately, Peterson ended up behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which were spent in solitary confinement. While incarcerated, his alter ego,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BROSummary: Rain Murphy is a man serving a life sentence for killing his father. A man whose home is Folsom Prison, a place where only the toughest breed of criminals, murderers, rapists and armed robbers, are sent. His passion is running; he runs to escape the mean and hopeless life he must lead; to free himself from the inmate tensions and power struggles. Then he₂s given a chance, a chance to train for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JERSummary: Surrounded by the conflict in Northern Ireland, Kathleen Quigley has managed to stay clear of it, devoting herself to her three children. Yet in a single moment, the war claims her as one of its living victims. Kathleen is caught in an inescapable political crossfire when her son, actively involved with the IRA, is jailed by the British.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SOMSummary: Its January 1977 and Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. Gary's youngest brother, Mikal, can help prevent the execution, but first he has to get to know the brother he barely remembers. Born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition, the brothers discover their shared past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOSummary: Several convicts from a high-security prison escape the inhumane treatment of Chief Guard Ranken and break out into the icy Alaskan wilderness. The cons flee onto a departing freight train only to find themselves prisoners on a speeding train that is hurtling toward certain derailment, its conductor dead of a sudden heart attack.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998