Summary: Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighboring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam's relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SWESummary: In Season 2, Lyra follows Lord Asriel into the mysterious abandoned city Cittagazze while Mrs. Coulter continues to search for her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series His 2021Summary: The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 12 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWESummary: In this thrilling coming-of-age adventure, a troubled teen must face the dangers of the Alaskan wild, as well as her own past, in order to find her way home. Sent to stay with her uncle in Alaska while her mother is in treatment, fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is forced to flee as her uncle's attention turns threatening.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WILSummary: After inheriting her spying business from her late father, private eye Honey West outwits criminals and solves crimes using her unique arsenal of martial arts and scientific gadgets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by VCI Entertainment 1965
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HONSummary: The story of friendly underachiever David Wozniak, whose ordinary life gets twisted in a knot when he finds out that he has fathered 533 children via sperm donations he made twenty years earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DELSummary: A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDSummary: Join the Berenstain Bears, Papa, Mama, Brother and Sister, as they embark on many adventures. Brother and Sister learn simple life lessons and family values.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Within the last half century, our agricultural and food industries have changed more than ... ever before. New technologies and scientific ingenuity have given rise to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other man-made foods. People have begun to raise concerns about the safety of GMOs in our food supply, given their incredible dominance in a large portion of our diets. Traditional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KITG Productions 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OFSummary: Aryana Farshad's quest in her native Iran to explore the religious rituals and traditions that have fascinated the Western world for centuries. Includes rare glimpses of the women's chamber at the Great Mosque, the fire rituals in Zarathustra, and the dance of the Dervishes in Kurdistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Questar, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 MYS1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYS
Summary: The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic, pervasive presence in our everyday lives. With a deft mix of humor, visual panache and seriousness, this documentary is a timely, entertaining critique of global conglomerates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CORSummary: A comprehensive documentary about the mingling of cultural and social influences that have made basketball what it is today. Appropriate credit goes to the game's official inventor, Dr. James Naismith. Also explores the YMCA's early role as a "pipeline for spreading basketball over the world". Pays tribute to the old Knickerbockers and Philadelphia Warriors legends, among others, who comprise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: Wynne is fourteen and in love with her adoptive brother. When she finds blood on his sweater she gets the idea that he is the person murdering young women in the area. But her visits to the old family house, about to be demolished, lead her to the real killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER ISummary: Digitally remastered Doctor Who classic The Green Death Special Edition! When a man is found dead with his skin glowing green in an abandoned mine, it's not long before the Doctor, Jo Grant and UNIT head to Wales to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: A deep dive into the life of Stewart Brand, a legendary pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism. Brand created the revolutionary do-it-yourself publication The Whole Earth Catalog, which Steve Jobs famously called ₃Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google existed.₄
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: Ten questions are posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Video 2007
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TENSummary: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRESummary: Demonstrates how to make white, whole wheat and rye bread, shape the loaves, treat the crust, as well as make sweet rolls, pizza crust and pie crust.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Video Bread 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.815 VIDSummary: The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIV RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIVSummary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023