Summary: "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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Summary: Tells the story of the friendship between the host of television series "Mister Rogers' neighborhood" Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2020
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Beautiful 2020Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEASummary: ATL refers to the airport designation for Atlanta. That's where orphaned 17-year-old Rashad lives with his younger brother Anton and uncle George. They're poor like most Southside families, but they're making ends meet, caring for each other and forging life-long friendships with guys like the smart, ambitious Esquire, transplanted New Yorker Brooklyn, and likable homeboy Teddy. On Sunday...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ATLSummary: An inspiring story of independence that follows two unlikely friends determined to face the world on their own terms. Young Michael is a patient who is resigned to his quiet life within an institution's safe, predictable boundaries. Then, the rebellious Rory O'Shea bursts onto the scene. Now, with the help of the beautiful young Siobhan, who sings on as the boys' live-in aide, Rory will show...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RORSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Following his divorce and the loss of his job as a homicide detective with the LAPD, Jesse Stone travels across the country to Paradise, Massachusetts where he is recruited by the town's board of selectmen to become the new Chief of Police. But things are not quite so heavenly in Paradise, as Stone starts off his first day on the job investigating a domestic abuse case that leads to a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2007Summary: When Christy's best friend dies of typhoid before they've had a chance to patch up a disagreement, Christy angrily questions her faith as she tries to reconcile her beliefs with the tragedy of a young, loving mother being taken away from her family and friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHRSummary: Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction, and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. "It was important to us that the film be real," said Willie Robertson, Phil's son. "The transformation of Phil proves that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Takes place during one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife, Marion. It is a provacative story about one couple's emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality and stunning honesty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Films 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOOSummary: "After years in and out of mental institutions, Genesis is released into the care of his older brother Ariki, a street gang leader. When he volunteers to train a group of disadvantaged Maori children for the upcoming National Chess Championships, it puts him at odds with his brother over Ariki's son Mana, whose interest in the game threatens the teen's imminent initiation into his father's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DARSummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: In the world behind our closet doors monsters are lurking to collect the energy of our screams. At Monsters, Inc., James P. Sullivan (Sully) is the top scream-generator with his partner Mike Wazowski. But, there's still a scream shortage in the monster world. One night, Sully and Mike accidentally let a human girl through her closet door into Monstropolis, and pandemonium ensues. Sully and Mike...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Enterprises 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MON RATED GSummary: The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLASummary: Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, Tonya is a dark comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous and poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD I RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2018Summary: From their uniquely hysterical perspective, Timon and Pumba, the greatest unsung heroes of the Savanna, reveal where they came from, how they helped Simba save the Serengeti, and what really happened behind the scenes of The Lion King's biggest events. Bonus features included.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LIOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LIOSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHSummary: On the planet Cybertron, a war was waged between the Autobots and the Decepticons for control of the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Allspark is smuggled off the planet, but Megatron goes in search of it. He tracks it to Earth and his desire for power sends him into the Arctic Ocean. The sheer cold forces him into a paralyzed state....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Transformers 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRA RATED PG13Summary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSummary: On his first day at a new school, eleven-year-old Billy goes up against the school bully in a challenge that ends up with a total gross-out date ... to eat 10 worms in one day. As the pressure mounts, Billy must summon all his strength to meet the dare, all the while keeping his weak stomach from betraying him and his big mouth from getting him in even more trouble.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOWSummary: A Depression-era woman meets a miserable millionaire in Central Park and accompanies him on a giddy, glamorous birthday whirl through Manhattan. Enchanted, the millionaire installs her in his mansion where the rags-to-riches story becomes a laugh riot as she grabs his selfish, suspicious family by the scruff of the neck and shakes sense into them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIFSummary: "One of the British New Wave's most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIDSummary: A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Productions 2008