Summary: Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but today Ben's daughter, Cale, is at the track. Ben impulsively buys the horse, which causes him to lose his job. The rehabilitation process of the horse is almost too much for a farm that's already struggling to survive in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family DreamerSummary: National Velvet: A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NATSummary: Behind every legend lies an impossible dream. Witness the spectacular journey of an incredible horse named Secretariat and the moving story of his unlikely owner, a housewife who risked everything to make him a champion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC RATED PGSummary: Seabiscuit is the remarkable tale of a thoroughbred racehorse and down-and-out jockey John "Red" Pollard, an ex-prizefighter. Together they become hard luck heroes for a troubled nation and two of the most celebrated sports figures of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video ; a Hollywood, CA 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEASummary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEASummary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEASummary: Ken McLaughlin has a new horse, Crown Jewel, with whom he hopes to win enough money to help his father raise money for Goose Bar Ranch's financial crisis. Crown Jewel's heart is not in the race, since she is more captivated by the stallion Thunderhead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GRESummary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUD RATED PGSummary: A man decides to abandon his nagging wife and his job in her family's business for the questionable pleasures of owning a racehorse known as Broadway Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BROSummary: Jamal Wallace is a talented young basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing. After an accidental meeting, Forrester, a reclusive novelist, becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Finding 2000Summary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Living a happy life in Los Angeles, Izzy's life is forever changed when a brutal crime shatters her world. As izzy battles the nightmares left behind, she finds an inner strength that transforms her and experiences the amazing power of love and forgiveness in surviving the unimaginable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OPESummary: Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero an exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GUE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GUE
Summary: Jess and Moss are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer, they venture out on a journey exploring deep secrets, identity, and hopes for the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Baxter Bros. 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JESSummary: Katy dreams of filling her father's shoes by taking over their ranch, while her father wants better for her. When she finds and tries to tame a wild horse, she learns how alike she and this stallion truly are.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLISummary: After causing the company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew is fired from his job. After being fired, he is promptly dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. On the verge of suicide, Drew is given a new purpose in life. Following the death of his father, Drew has to fly back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown in order to make certain that his father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Elizabethtown 2006Summary: The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYSummary: Follow the rise, fall and rise again of promoter Tony Wilson and the wild rave culture he brought to England and the rest of the world. Pulsates with the rhythmic energy from the post punk movement through the evolution of rave music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWESummary: Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005