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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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESSummary: Kresten is enjoying life as a successful businessman and a newlywed (he's just married the boss' daughter). But when he receives a phone call informing him of his father's untimely passing, his comfortable new life is thrown into turmoil. He's kept his poor, small-town past a secret from his new wife and her family and must sneak away to settle family business before his cover is blown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIFSummary: Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JANSummary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEASummary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEASummary: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: A retelling of one of the most notorious Tinseltown legends to circulate at the height of the studio era. In November 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were Charlie Chaplin, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator and producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip columnist, Louella...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CatSummary: Danny seems to have everything ready for his Senior Prom...except a date. With his hormones and his reputation on the line, Danny must find a date so he isn't worse off than the biggest nerd in school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARSummary: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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Summary: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Peace Arch Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Deal 2007Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEASummary: Twelve years afte the events in Frank Herbert's Dune, Maud'Dib--Arrakis emperor Paul Atreides--has become the unintended figurehead of a violent dictatorship, and his enemies are multiplying. Vanishing into the desert, he waits as destiny shapes his twin heirs Leto II and Ghanima, who must contend with their scheming aunt Alia while Princess Wensicia, of the enemy House Corrino, plots her own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of Bill Porter, a man with cerebal palsy. With little hope of getting a real job, Bill asks to take on the position of salesman in the most unwanted and difficult territory. He gets the job and makes his rounds, impacting the lives of his customers during his nearly 50-year career that often found him at the top of his company's sales charts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOOSummary: A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FargoSummary: Three intrepid adventurers set out to claim a massive treasure and foil the efforts of a cadre intent on world destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the well respected current events and policy magazine 'The new republic'. He was also a freelance writer featured in 'Rolling Stone', 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'George'. By the mid 1990's, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington. That is until a bizarre chain of events suddenly stopped his career right in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWISummary: Charlie St. Cloud is a small-town hero and an accomplished sailor who has it all: the adoration of his mother and younger brother and a Stanford scholarship. His bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. Now Charlie is torn between honoring a promise he made years ago and pursuing his newfound love with a former high school classmate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHAHaneke, Michael
Summary: A land surveyor tries to convince the local government of a small mountain village of the legitimacy of his position, but the more he struggles, the more obstructive the village's bureaucracy becomes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CASSummary: Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CoSummary: Igby and his older brother, Oliver, are are in the process of killing their terminally ill mother. His parents snipe at each other endlessly until his father tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental hospital. Igby grows into a rebellious youth, gets kicked out of several boarding schools and ends up in a military academy. As Igby gets drawn further into the mind games and hypocrisy of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD !GBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IGBSummary: Audrey Burke is reeling from the shock of the news that has just been delivered to her door by the local police - her husband, Brian, had been killed in a random act of violence. Once anchored by the love and comforts of their marriage, Audrey is now adrift. Impulsively, she turns to Jerry, a down-and-out addict who has been her husband's close friend since childhood. Desperate to fill the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THICooper, Bradley
Summary: In Depression-era North Carolina, a man struggles to maintain control of his timber empire, which becomes more complicated when he discovers his wife cannot have children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015