Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COMLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
Summary: Glyndebourne Festival Opera's 1972 production of Verdi's opera, based on Shakespeare's tragic play which studies the all consuming ambition of Macbeth and his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MACSummary: Regina Giddens is a woman who will stop at nothing to outwit her brothers in running the family business, even if it means sacrificing the health of her husband or the love of her young daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITSummary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASVarious
Summary: In John Adams' opera, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists explore the moral implications of the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DOCSummary: King Henry, now in failing health and still embroiled in war, sends his second son Prince John of Lancaster to the battle. Prince John tricks and defeats the enemy while his older son, the Prince of Wales, is summoned away from Falstaff and his tavern circle to the king's bedside where he assumes the throne upon the death of the king.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1987
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENSummary: A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devestating effects of alcoholism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBSummary: A presentation of William Shakespeare's chronicle play, Henry V, in which he attempted to present a full-length portrait of the ideal king in action, and used his loftiest rhetoric to this purpose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Ambrose Video Publishing 2004
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENSummary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrapesSummary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Academy Award-winning director Robert Redford captures the majesty of the Montana Wilderness and the strength of the American family in this acclaimed adaptation of Norman Maclean's classic autobiography. Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, and Brad Pitt also stars as his brother Paul, an irresistible daredevil driven to challenge the world. Growing up, both boys rebel against their stern...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RIVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie River 1999Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RIVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RIV RATED PGSummary: "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Londoner of lower class befriends and begins a romantic relationship with an aristocrat that becomes complicated when the aristocrat introduces his new friend to his sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BRISummary: In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist and recent bike accident victim Steve Lopez more than his banged-up face, was his pressing need for story ideas. He soon discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a skid row schizophrenic street musician, who possesses extraordinary talent - even though he only has half-broken instruments to play. Inspired by Nathaniel's story, Lopez writes an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOLSummary: The masterful story of a war-weary World War II veteran who must leave his family to fight again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures. 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Green 2007Summary: A peace-loving prince of Judea, leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he learns to fight, to love, to hate and, finally, to forgive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EASSummary: A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FLYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family FlySummary: The final day in the life of a British consul in Mexico just before WWII, and how he alienates himself while trying to reconnect with his estranged wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNDVienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Summary: Tragic events take place in the court of Herod where the beautiful, young Salome demands the head of John the Baptist after seducing Herod with the "Dance of the seven veils."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007