Summary: Jacob runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save an orphanage from closing, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen, a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. What appears to be nothing more than a friendly gesture to attend a wedding sets in motion an increasingly devastating series of surprises, revelations, and confessions that will forever change...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AFTSummary: Borgen explores the insular world of high-stakes Danish politics and the press corps that covers it in instantaneous, relentless news cycles. Birgitte Nyborg, the idealistic head of the moderate party, becomes prime minister of Denmark through a political fluke and has to quickly learn the ways of power. She's an altruistic public servant in an old boys' club and must master the art of the deal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORSummary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BABSummary: Critically acclaimed alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys. Eager to break with the past, regain control over her life, and get her children back, she uses charm and manipulation to persuade her ex-husband, Christian, that she is able to take back the mantle of motherhood. But ironically, she has not completely...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN APPSummary: During a blackout, a woman is found murdered in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both countries are called to the scene, and what looks like one murder turns out to be two. It's a spectacular double murder: the bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. Half of the body belongs to a Swedish...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BRISummary: The passionate and forbidden romance between the insane Danish King, the royal physician, and the young but strong-willed Queen leads to a revolution that changes an entire nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROY1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROY
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROYSummary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CELSummary: DCI Dan Sommerdahl investigates murders in a lovely Danish coastal town with his best friend, Detective Flemming Torp, and his wife, Marianne, a criminal technician. But Dan's years of devotion to the job have hurt his marriage, and with Marianne wanting a divorce, Dan discovers his rival for her affections is none other than his best friend. And they all must still work together to solve crimes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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4 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SOMSummary: In this third and final season of Borgen, Birgitte Nyborg is a very different person than the confident prime minister who spoke at the lectern in Parliament. She is no longer prime minister. It has been two and a half years since she called an election in which she failed to win the required number of seats to maintain the existing government. She has since left politics and is now a high-paid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORSummary: Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYSummary: Lifelong best friends Liv and Emma have shared a dream since childhood. Each yearns for the perfect June wedding at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. Both find themselves engaged at the same time and go to a wedding coordinator to set up the perfect wedding. A clerical error puts them both down for nuptials on the same day at the same time. One of them will have to switch the date. More...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Bride 2009Summary: The personal and professional converge for DCI Dan Sommerdahl; his estranged wife, pathologist Marianne; and his best pal and partner, Detective Flemming Torp. Sommerdahl has devoted his life to protecting his beloved town, which has, unfortunately, cost him his marriage. But can he learn to accept, that his ex-wife is now in a relationship with Flemming?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SOMSummary: As international terrorism and organized crime become more and more intertwined, western nations find themselves increasingly threatened by violence and lawlessness on an unimaginable scale, In Denmark, a special unit fights cross-border crime throughout Scandinavia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EAGSummary: In this second season of Denmark's blockbuster political drama, viewers continue to follow the country's first female Prime Minister, Birgitte Nyborg, her cynical spin doctor, Kasper Juul, the ambitious journalist, Katrine Fn̜smark and her more seasoned colleague, Hanne Holm. Birgitte has been Denmark's Prime Minister for two years - years that have taken their toll on her private life. She...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORDempsey, Patrick
Summary: Tom and Hannah have been best friends since college, but when Hannah returns from a trip engaged to another man, Tom realizes he is in love with her and will do everything he can to win her heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Made 2008Summary: The week before a wedding can be stressful at the best of times, but when Ben decides to marry the lovely Mel, everything that can go wrong ... does.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WORSummary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAPSummary: Christoffer, who four years earlier abandoned the family steel business for an idyllic life as a restauranteur with the woman he loves, Maria, a rising actress. But when Christoffer's father commits suicide, Christoffer's domineering and manipulative mother compels him to return home to take control. Maria's worst fears for Christoffer are tragically realized as he must contend with a business...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INHSummary: In the seaside Danish town of Elsinore, the personal and professional converge for DCI Dan Sommerdahl; his estranged wife, criminal technician Marianne; and his best pal and partner, Detective Flemming Torp. Separated after 25 years of marriage, Dan now asks for a divorce despite still being in love with Marianne. She, meanwhile, wants to rediscover herself which gets complicated when Flemming,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SOMSummary: Inspired by actual police cases, this Danish crime drama reveals an unvarnished perspective on criminal casework and the people who spend their lives doing it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNISummary: A multi-story romantic comedy about the people who work on weddings to create the perfect day for a loving couple - while their own relationships are outlandish, odd, crazy and far from perfect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Saban Films 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: Inspired by actual police cases, this Danish crime drama reveals an unvarnished perspective on criminal casework and the people who spend their lives doing it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SparkNotes 2003