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Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character) Drama Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character) Juvenile films Electronic musical instruments Homosexuality and art Homosexuality and literature Snoopy (Fictitious character) Drama Snoopy (Fictitious character) Juvenile films Television plays Theremin Thérémin, Léon 1896-1993Summary: Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, this film traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family, led by a well-intentioned but domineering father, as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. A heartrending story about the universal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAVSummary: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge. Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ITSummary: Snoopy is homesick for his puppyhood at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, so he and Charlie Brown organize a reunion of his siblings Spike, Andy, Olaf, Marbles, Belle, Molly and Rover. However, when they arrive at the puppy farm, Charlie Brown is aghast to find that urban sprawl has replaced it with a parking garage. Snoopy and his family however, calmly begin to play musical instruments they've each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SNOSummary: Investigates the secret crimes of Father Lawrence Murphy, a Milwaukee priest who abused more than 200 deaf children in a school under his control. The film documents the first known public protest against the pontiff himself. The investigation helped uncover documents from the secret Vatican archives that show the Pope, who must operate within the mysterious rules of the Roman Curia, as both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEASummary: Join Charlie Brown and the rest of the delightful gang as they journey to France as exchange students, in the late Charles M. Schulz's fourth full-length animated motion picture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In First blood, an ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam is searching for peace, but finds instead an overzealous, small town sheriff who's spoiling for a fight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAMSummary: A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Germany's Third Reich made 1,200 feature films. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. More than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix interviews German film historians, archivists and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Moeller shows how contentious these films...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: Geneviève, a shop assistant, falls in love with Guy, a gas station mechanic. But a life with him will not be in her future. A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: When a psychologist's colleague is murdered, he denies that it is the work of the devil, until he himself becomes the next target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CURSummary: "Emmy Award-winner John Scagliotti, producer of the landmark films "Before Stonewall" and "After Stonewall", guides us in a wondrous tour of erotic history, poetry and visual art in this point-of-view documentary on same-sex desire from ancient times to Victorian crimes. He explores how the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the growth of LGBT political power in the 1990s cleared the path for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEFSummary: Lying on his deathbed, the aging Cheyenne Warrior, Windwalker, tells his life's story to his small grandchildren. He recounts his years as a young brave, marriage to beautiful Tashina, the blessing of having twin sons born to them, and his anguish at having Tashina die and one of the babies stolen during a raid by Crow warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WINSummary: 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: Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAMSummary: An entertaining film about Léon Thérémin, a Russian émigré who pioneered the field of electronic music 4 decades before the rise of electronic rock music, and then mysteriously vanished, not to be seen again for over 50 years. Includes rare film clips from classic Hollywood films and soundtracks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THESummary: Anne leaves Green Gables and Gilbert Blythe's proposal of marriage for a teaching position. When she returns, she finds Gilbert ill with a scarlet fever and is forced to re-evaluate her true feelings for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Archaeologist and explorer extrodinaire Lara Croft journeys to a temple in Greece, sunken underwater, that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box. A Chinese crime syndicate leader steals it. He's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LARSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Summary: Snoopy visits his former owner and feels he should stay with her when she becomes ill, rather than return to Charlie Brown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (Episode #14), the Peanuts gang stars in its own weekly cartoon with the tales "Snoopy's foot," "Snoopy and the Giant," and "Rerun," originally shown in 1985 -- and in "Snoopy's getting married Charlie Brown," Snoopy and Belle are getting married and the gang plans a wedding, originally a TV special shown in 1985.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Join Charlie Brown and the rest of the delightful 'Peanuts' gang in their smashing debut on the silver screen in the late Charles M. Schulz's first full-length animated motion picture. It's a movie filled with all the characters and charm that has made 'Peanuts' the most popular comic strip in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: When an American-born Chinese woman attends a wedding in Singapore with her boyfriend, she discovers that his family is very wealthy and other women in his social class are trying to date him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CRASummary: After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood, and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained, and a firestorm of murder, madness, and mayhem will be released in this terror ride to Hell . . . and back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019