Summary: Inspired by a true story, The Staircase follows writer and war veteran Michael Peterson after the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen. On December 9, 2001, Michael makes a frantic 911 call reporting Kathleen has fallen down the stairs of their Durham, NC home. But when the district attorney brings murder charges, members of Michael's blended family must choose whose side they're on and which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: Goodbye, Tree Hill High. Graduation nears and with its approach comes the realization that, for students and parents alike, life is changing forever. There are new loves to nurture, old scores still to settle. The longtime triangle of Lucas, Peyton and Brooke finally comes down to two. The memory of Keith--or is it his spirit?--inspires Lucas and Nathan and haunts Dan. Peyton is terrorized by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONESummary: Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: Hope, heartbreak and a hurricane, all in season eight. So many plans glow with happiness in these 22 episodes. Nathan begins an exciting new career. Haley joyfully awaits the arrival of Jamie's little sister. Brooke and Julian invite all their friends to a wonderful wedding, and Skills makes sure this Tree Hill hitching goes off without a hitch. But darkness mingles with the light. After last...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONESummary: On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: A shocking, real-life thriller that follows the high-profile murder trial of North Carolina author Michael Peterson, who was arraigned in 2001 for the murder of his wife after her body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of the couple's upscale Durham home. Did Kathleen Peterson fall down the stairs, or was it cold-blooded murder? As the mystery unravels, de Lestrade's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STASummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINSummary: "Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly twenty-five years... As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the 'Corps' and was responsible for indoctrinating thousands of new recruits with its motto Semper Fidelis or 'Always Faithful.' When Jerry's nine-year old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEM
Summary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVSummary: It is the world's biggest white-collar heist involving government corruption at the highest level, abuse of power, and international money laundering. A hot-shot financier embezzles US$ 3.5 billion from Malaysia's wealth fund 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad); money from the audacious scam flows into New York and The Hollywood, where the thieves court A-list celebrities and even finance...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KLESummary: Four and a half years after the searing and surprising events that marked their final days at Tree Hill High, old friends return to their North Carolina hometown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONESummary: Larry is a small town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue the woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big corporation corruption trial in Chicago. The agents, it turns out, are found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WITSummary: Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Native American spirit warrior Tonto recounts the tales that transformed John Reid, a prosecutor, into a Texas ranger and a legend of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONSummary: Widower Sheriff Andy and his son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry NC. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent philosophizing and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANDSummary: Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KLASummary: Picking up a year after Season 2 ends, the still-audacious Kenny goes to Myrtle Beach, SC, a tourist destination filled with fireworks stores, mini-golf and underage boozing and somehow resurrects his baseball career as the closer for the minor-league Myrtle Beach Mermen. Kenny struggles to come to terms with growing older, both in his personal life, and professionally.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EASContents: Disc 1: High noon in Mayberry -- The loaded goat -- Class reunion -- Rafe Hollister sings -- Opie and the spoiled kid -- The great filling station robbery -- Disc 2: Andy discovers America -- Aunt Bee's medicine man -- The Darlings are coming -- Andy's English valet -- Barney's first car -- The rivals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANDSummary: Contains the final ninth season of the television program "One Tree Hill" in which a group of friends deals with various personal issues, including relationships, careers, financial difficulties, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONESummary: A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHESummary: Follows designer-activist Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build project...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015