Summary: 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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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PALSummary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SELSummary: Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.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: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYSummary: "It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frank Taylor and people like him have a vision for America. It is a vision shaped by terror and fueled by fear, ignorance and hate - a nation of 'free, white, 100-percent Americans!'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLASummary: George is a man whose struggle to find food and a place to sleep in New York City is beautifully captured with remarkable realism and heartrending compassion. Shuffled into the unforgiving bureaucracy of a men's shelter, George seems destined to wind up as just another lost soul swallowed up by the system, until he meets a gregarious, down-and-out ex-jazzman who inspires George to reconnect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TIMSummary: U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRISummary: Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TASSummary: Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIASummary: Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOUGino, Alex
Summary: "When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part ... because she's a boy. With the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GINSummary: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FEN RATED PG13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fences 2017McPhee, Martha
Summary: "On a winter day in 1910, at a train station in Ohio, two girls wait in the cold with their mother to begin a new life in the West. Tommy, the eldest, feels responsible for her sister, and in the years to come, as their mother campaigns for women's suffrage and teaches in one-room schoolhouses across Montana, she takes care of Katherine: trapping animals, begging, keeping house, cooking, while...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCPSummary: A seven year old genius is caught in a tug of war between his waitress mom who only wants a regular life for him, and the head of an institute for gifted children who wants to further his development.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITSummary: A television newscaster's mental breakdown turns him into a celebrity when the network tries to profit from his illness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco struggles with the twin demands of being successful at his job and acting as a good role model for his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THASummary: Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRO RATED RSummary: Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HALSummary: A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care system.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018