Summary: "In the late '60s, a changing social and political climate inspired a new generation to create a lifestyle outside the mainstream. Twenty-two year-old Arlo's journey to find a place for himself and his music includes a visit to his dying father in the hospital, gigs in New York and romps with his friends Alice and Ray, who run a small restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And when an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALI

Summary: A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COM

Summary: Two recent high school graduates wreak havoc on all who cross their path, until an oddball loner looking for Miss Right comes into their lives. These social misfits learn the hard way that life after high school gets even weirder than they thought it would.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GHO

Summary: This drama chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OSA

Summary: This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WES

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICAL WES

Summary: Fellini recreates the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome and its lack of concern with human dignity and obsession with perverse sex. The film is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEL

Summary: Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PIE

Summary: "A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anthing to achieve success"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWE

Summary: A decorated Korean War veteran has been brainwashed to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him. Includes a commentary by John Frankenheimer; cast and crew interviews; featurettes; and much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MAN

Summary: Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAN

Summary: In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVE

Summary: Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HAN

Summary: A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him only rose bushes and a '49 Buick convertible. Feeling cheated out of what he thinks should be his 3 million dollar inheritance, he kidnaps the autistic brother he never knew he had, and takes him on the ride of his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ra

Summary: A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainmenth 2001

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WIT

Summary: Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lions 2008

Summary: During World War I on the French front, a regiment of soldiers are set up for a suicide mission and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAT

Summary: Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska in search of gold. During a storm, he becomes trapped in a cabin with another prospector and an outlaw. The outlaw goes out for help, but is killed in an avalanche. Out of food and on the brink of starvation, the other prospector has visions of Chaplin as his next meal but Chaplin manages to keep himself from becoming dinner. Surviving all this,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GOL

Summary: 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 !GB

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IGB

Summary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUD

Summary: A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services but spends a hard winter helping a con man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1997

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MID