Summary: Elderly hobbit Bilbo Baggins relinquishes possession of a golden ring possessing magical powers to Frodo, his youthful heir. Charged with casting the ring into the fires from which it was forged, the young hobbit begins an arduous trek across Middle-earth, accompanied by a stalwart band including his best friend Sam, the mercurial wizard Gandalf, the warrior Aragorn, and the blustery Gimli,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Lord 2002Summary: In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in 1942, tells the story of the first B-25 crews, under the command of General Jimmy Doolittle, training for a bombing mission over Japan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who sees in her potential as a future cover girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS COVSummary: A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAKSummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: The Grace Brothers store is closed down when Mr. Grace is unexpectedly killed in an accident. The staff finds out their pensions are tied up in a failing country inn and they have no way of reclaiming their funds. So the staff must decide to become partners and turn the inn into a money-making venture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARESummary: "Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS RICSummary: After he is suddenly kicked out of his job as a government contract spy, Michael Weston returns to his home town of Miami to figure out who is behind the firing while offering his services to those in need.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Many a baffling mystery and outrageous scam lurk behind the closed doors of Lochdubh, and Hamish needs all his skill to keep the big boys from Inverness off his patch. If only his love life were as easy to solve, but that is another story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HAMSummary: Ride with the "Sons of Anarchy", and relive the adrenaline-charged show's most controversial and tension-filled season ever! With Clay and Tara behind bars, Jax looks to the future of both the club and his family, but can he possibly escape the bloody legacy of SAMCRO's deadly past? As he desperately pursues his father's vision of a more legitimate direction for the MC, Jax is met at every turn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sydney, a poker-faced professional gambler plays guardian angel to unlucky John and his girlfriend. When John's and his bride's honymoon night leads to a disastrous hostage situation, the gambler takes care of it as usual. But when a slick casino pro threatens to reveal a secret from Sydney's past, Sydney decides to hedge his bets and not leave anything to chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HARContents: Disc 1. Gold in the sunset / Bob Schneider -- Walk in Jerusalem / Blind Boys of Alabama -- Seven year ache / Rosanne Cash -- I am the cancer / Sloan -- Anthem for a 17 year old girl / Broken Social Scene -- Darts of pleasure / Franz Ferdinand -- Crazy dream / Las Lonely Boys -- Light in your eyes / Sheryl Crow -- Sister surround / The Soundtrack of Our Lives -- It's the nighttime / Josh Rouse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AUSSummary: Describes the parental behavior of Emperor penguins, focusing on how the male keeps the egg warm until it hatches and how the parents care for the chick after it is born. The "Did you know?" segment follows the story and presents short facts about Emperor penguins.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Nutmeg Media 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EMPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J DVD 598.47 Emperor's 2005Summary: The story of a 13-year-old girl who wants to be a mother, as told through different actors playing the same character and her journey in a variety of ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A look at what happened when Mr. Rochester met and married his first wife, and how she became the madwoman locked in the attic. A prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WIDSummary: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow star as a long-married couple whose own relationship starts to crumble when their best friends, announce they're separating. They immediately pair-up with younger, sexier paramours and enjoy again the pleasures of fresh passion. But smoldering resentments and unexpected jealousies soon rise to the surface, erupting in savage humor and hilariously unpredictable reunions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUSSummary: Presents the basic moves needed to use bellydancing for fitness; throughly exercises the whole body but is low impact, relaxing, sensually stimulating, and fun. Also allows the viewer to choose the music only and includes extra bellydance performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Goldhil Home Media International 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.71 BELSummary: Seven friends, recent college graduates, search for a place in the real world and face the issues of career and commitment. Against the backdrop of St. Elmo's, their local hang-out, they save, betray and love each one another as only the closest of friends can.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001