Summary: While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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

Summary: Features four rotating stars, Charles Boyer, David Niven, Ida Lupino, and Dick Powell in individual episodes consisting of everything from comedy to drama.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FOU

Summary: Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BUT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUT RATED PG-13

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Butler 2013

Summary: After serving time in prison for racketeering, a once notorious Jewish gangster agrees to lead a straight life with a day job, but he soon finds the world of 'legitimate businessmen' to be just as exploitive and comically immoral.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2005

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

Summary: There's nothing tiny about this huge and hilarious collection of episodes (fourteen are even uncensored), in which Brian and Stewie shrink down to microscopic size, Peter becomes the new White House press secretary (no comment), Meg devours internet fame, and Lois uncovers shocking secrets while providing DVD commentary.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAM

Summary: Go big, smile wide and laugh huge! Start from the beginning of TV's most outrageously irreverent animated comedy with the first 5 hilarious volumes of Family Guy! Meet oversized manchild Peter Griffin, his doting wife Lois, misunderstood first-born Meg, sweethearted Chris, pretentious canine Brian, and Stewie the diabolical baby genius bent on total world domination. Victor is your!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAM

Summary: In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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

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

Summary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICE

Summary: Set in the nation's music capital. The film weaves the stories of twenty-four characters; from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress, into a cinematic tapestry that is equal parts comedy, tragedy, and musical.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Eavesdrop on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Summary: A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2003

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ANN

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANN

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Annie

Summary: In the midst of riots, rebellion, and revolution of the 1960s, a reluctant soldier finds himself in the center of two wars. Randy is ripped from the front lines of the civil rights struggle and thrust into the war in Vietnam to battle for his life. An explosive story of one man's coming of age during the assassinations, protest, and war that defined the 60's and changed the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD SOL

Summary: Features hours of hilarious sketches, memorable skits from the original Season 4 cast, and all the original musical performances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SAT

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SAT

Summary: Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, have been let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are due to start work. George is a small, dark man with Lennie, his companion, is his opposite, a giant of a man. Overcome with thirst, the two stop in a clearing to camp for the night. As the two converse, it becomes clear that Lennie has a mild mental disability, is deeply devoted to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OF

Summary: Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 2000

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

Summary: Vivian is a repressed English professor who goes to Reno for a quickie divorce in 1959. She spends the weeks waiting for final divorce papers at a dumpy dude ranch. There she mets Cay, a beautiful young casino worker. The two develop a friendship that stirs desires in Vivian she cannot deny. Slowly their attraction deepens into bold sensuality as they develop a bond that renews their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfe Video 2007

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

Summary: In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IN

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IN RATED PG-13

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

Summary: An enchanting screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's original novel. As the Civil War rages on, the four sisters of the March family struggle to grow up without the guiding hand of their loving father.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LIT

Summary: Somewhere along the mid-nineteenth century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOR

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

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

Summary: A collection of Roscoe Arbuckle comedy motion pictures featuring Buster Keaton and Al St. John.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: Examines the sexual triumphs and disasters of two American men as it traces their lives from college days to middle age.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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