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British Italy Drama Fugitives from justice Drama India Drama India History 1947- Drama India History British occupation, 1765-1947 Drama Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Assassination Drama Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Nonviolence Drama Religious leaders India DramaSummary: Still reeling from the disappearance of his lover, a brilliant code-breaker is summoned to Blechley Park, Britain's top-secret intellengence campus. Now he must face his toughest assignment - crack the Nazis' infamous Engima codes. Putting together the pieces of a puzzle, he discovers the reason for his lovers' disappearance to U-boats closing in on Allied cargo ships to a mass grave in Poland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENISummary: "Pitch black": Journey to a remote, hostile planet with a group of marooned passengers who learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. ""Dark fury": Riddick battles ruthless soldiers of fortune and vicious creatures. "The chronicles of Riddick": Riddick finds himself humanity's unlikely champion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI RIDSummary: Karen is an American nurse living and working in Tokyo who agrees to cover the shift of another nurse. When she enters the assigned home, she discovers an elderly woman who is lost in a catatonic state. As she tends the woman, Karen hears scratching sounds upstairs and goes to investigate. Within this house is a chain of terror more terrifying than she could ever imagine, resulting from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRUSummary: When decisions needed to be made at the office, the owner invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind. Now, forced to bring the "Boss" face-to-face with potential purchasers and employees, he hires a failed actor to play the part. Much to everyone's surprise, the unmasked boss plays the ultimate part by becoming a hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAKSummary: Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherhood and seem to relish all that their new role brings. One day, Brad, a stay at home dad brings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITSummary: Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in rural North Carolina are forced to confront a tangle of difficult choices as they discover what it takes to make a modern American hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GEOSummary: There's precious little sweetness in Liam's life in the weeks before his 16th birthday: his mother is in prison, and his stepfather Stan is a bullying small-time drug dealer. Liam wants a normal life with mom, his older sister and her baby boy, in a caravan he picked out himself. Naïve, driven Liam comes to the attention of a local crime lord, who offers him employment--but with conditions that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixteen Films 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: The extended families of Adita and Hemant are gathering in New Delhi for the couples arranged marriage ceremony. However, the realities of modern life make this traditional celebration as unpredictable as the monsoon season itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: At the turn of the 20th century, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. When she chooses the younger of the two, the embittered older brother travels to Europe where he becomes a ruthless mercenary. But a revolution takes a personal twist with one brother hanging on the edge of life and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2003
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DUSSummary: The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSummary: A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CACSummary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAISummary: Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PIE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PIE
Summary: When her fiance is smitten by a beautiful Frenchwoman, Kate flies to Paris determined to win him back. However, nothing prepares her for Luc, a cunning, sexy Frenchman with a gift for gab and a fondness for thievery. A self-proclaimed expert on affairs of the heart, Luc promises to help Kate win back her man. But one star-crossed misadventure after another sweeps them across France,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FoxVideo 1995
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRESummary: Almost seven months after the Rage virus has annihilated the inhabitants of the London and the British Isles, the U.S. Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited, but one of them unwillingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR TWESummary: A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TSO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TSO
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TSOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TSO RATED RSummary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GANSummary: Set in the early 1900's. "[The film] tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CocoonCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI COCSummary: An elderly, exiled British spy remembers his days at an English boarding school in the 1930s. In school, he fell in love with a male classmate, explored his homosexuality and was exposed to Marxist ideas, both contributing to his activities as a spy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANOSummary: When Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac accepts a U.N. peacekeeper position in postwar Bosnia, she discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost. With masterful acting and a heart-racing plot, an acclaimed film inspired by actual events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WHISummary: In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? A classic story told with a Bollywood twist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005