Summary: Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WWII drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NAKSummary: Documentary about a community of homeless people living in a train tunnel beneath Manhattan. Depicts a way of life that is unimaginable to most of those who walk the streets above: in the pitch black of the tunnel, rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn station tear through the darkness. For some of those who have gone underground, it has been home for as long as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RYKO Distribution 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DARSummary: A SWAT team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no-go zone, it has since become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists, and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched. Making their move in the break of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's hard enough to adjust to a big move -- even harder when it's to New York City -- and harder still when there's a singing crocodile living in your attic! Josh Primm isn't making friends easily, so he's glad that Lyle is willing, but their menacing neighbor is determined to rid the neighborhood of the reptile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LYLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family LYLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family LyleCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LYLSummary: As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROASummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Now married to Suzanne, Nick buys a suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids Lindsey and Kevin. But when his new home quickly becomes a costly "fixer upper," he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor, Nick's suburban dream soon becomes a nightmare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ASummary: Woodcarver Geppetto has pets Figaro the cat and Cleo the fish. He has just made a little wooden puppet called Pinocchio. Wishing upon a star before he goes to bed, Geppetto wishes that Pinocchio would become a real boy. As Geppetto sleeps, the Blue Fairy arrives and partially grants his wish. Pinocchio can come to life, but he must prove himself worthy before becoming a real boy. He will...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2017
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4 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIN RATED GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Movie Pinocchio 2009Summary: A fifteen-foot-tall Central African gorilla is brought to America to save him from poachers. But his notoriety makes him a target for an enemy from his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1999
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MIGSummary: Members of the rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock n' roll history to record their much-anticipated tenth album.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Soul Mate traces the relationship between two best friends (Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun) and the eventual collapse of their friendship when a boy comes between them. Anchored by two of the most promising young actresses of their generation, Soul Mate is an evocative drama that dissects young love with style and verve. --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOUSummary: For ten days, the American soldiers of Bravo Company fight in Vietnam to take over Hill 937, also known as Hamburger Hill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MILSummary: A G.I. Joe spin-off centered on the character of Snake Eyes, a tenacious loner who is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan. But his honor and allegiance will be tested, even if that means losing those closest to him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNASummary: Christine Brown is an ambitious L.A. loan officer. She is on a desperate quest to break an evil curse. Professor Clay Dalton is her charming boyfriend. Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush arrives at the bank to beg for an extension on her home loan. Christine denies the extension to impress her boss and get a leg-up on a promotion, shaming Mrs. Ganush and dispossessing her of her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR DRASummary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY DEVISummary: Features Disney characters: Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Jiminy Cricket and Goofy. When Bongo the circus bear is mistreated, he escapes to the forest and finds true love. Mickey, Donald and Goofy find adventure up the beanstalk and meet Willie the Giant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FUNSummary: Carl Denham is a filmmaker and entrepreneur who leads an expedition to Skull Island. The island is a place where time has stood still. The natives pay homage to the one whom they revere as "Kong", and who is, indeed, king of the island. Denham, together with his beautiful starlet, Ann Darrow, and the crew of the ship, investigate the strange ritual being performed on the island by its native...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KINSummary: "Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022