Summary: The true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church; Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope Jean Paul II- and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JEWSummary: The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOMSummary: Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD TEACopies Available at Woodmere
6 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeSummary: The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATSummary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GORSummary: Follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother, Gail, to convince his billionaire grandfather to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son's captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son's life in the balance, Gail and Getty Sr.'s adviser become unlikely allies in the race against...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALLSummary: Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHSummary: 17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROSummary: Henry Heath, a grieving lawman whose daughter has recently died, is assigned custody of the ghoulish Jean Baptiste, a notorious robber of 300 graves. Against the perilous Utah desert terrain, the contempt of an entire community, and his own prejudice, Heath must somehow keep a marked man alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Media 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Redemption 2011Brolin, Josh
Summary: Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of local firefighters train together to become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the nation and are tested when an historic wildfire threatens their town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Only 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONLSummary: "AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFTSummary: The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ZOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Zookeeper's 2017Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZOO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoSummary: Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD 921 BaezCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Based on the incredible true story of the Beam family. When Christy discovers her ten-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter's healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Miracles 2016Summary: Famously leading a team of codebreakers, mathematician Alan Turing created a computer capable of breaking the codes devised by Germany's Enigma machine during WWII, significantly contributing to shortening the war, and saving millions of lives. Only a few years later, British authorities ignorant of his contributions convicted him for the crime of homosexuality, significantly contributing to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA IMISummary: This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England, Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex. Ever the victor on the battlefield, Devereux returns to London after defeating Spanish forces at Cadiz. Middle-aged Elizabeth, so attracted to the younger Devereux but fearful of his influence and popularity, sends him on a new mission: a doomed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE PRISummary: It is a timely tale of what can happen when engaged citizens fight the power for the sake of a better world. Arguably, no one did more to shape our understanding of the modern American city than Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist and writer who fought to preserve urban communities in the face of destructive development projects. The film vividly brings to life Jacobs' 1960s showdown with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITSummary: This incisive and entertaining portrait of American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti explores his vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mélange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America. In 1953 Ferlinghetti opened City Lights Bookstore, which quickly evolved into an iconic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FERSummary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BECSummary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SENSummary: Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INMattick, Lindsay.
Summary: A picture book on DVD.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FINGleeson, Domhnall
Summary: When author A.A. Milne creates the Winnie-the-Pooh books after World War I, their success comes at a price for the author and his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018