Summary: Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DARSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BECSummary: Using non-professional actors, this film follows the Gospel of Matthew to tell the story of the birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ. There was no script except the Bible itself. The narrative portions are voiced by "Jesus Christ." It is presented almost as a cinema-verité documentary and without the glossy coating of the Church and Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOSSummary: Based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world's hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill, who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PIE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PIE
Summary: Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAU RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAUSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: The powerful documentary examines the life of Muhammad Ali beyond the boxing ring to offer a personal perspective on the American sporting legend. Investigating Ali's spiritual transformation includes his conversion to Islam, resistance to the Vietnam War draft, and humanitarian work. The documentary connects Ali's transcendent life story to America' struggles with race, religion, and war in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRISummary: Biographical film about one of the most exciting and controversial figures of the '60s, Jim Morrison. With his rock and roll band, The Doors, he influenced the rock music scene as no other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Known as the "Father of Claymation," Will Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 1980s and 90s, creating such iconic characters as the California Raisins and Domino's The Noid. But after thirty years of being the unheralded king of clay, Vinton's carefully sculpted American dream came crumbling down. Structured around interviews with this charismatic pioneer and his close...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CLASummary: Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 55 SCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIFSummary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRUSummary: In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking viewers back to where it all began, the film tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Tells the story of Richard Williams, father of legendary tennis players Venus and Serena Williams, whose dedication and perseverance helped his daughters achieve their tremendous success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie King 2022Summary: Walk in the shoes of an unlikely messenger who touched the world. Rare historical footage and compelling interviews with family members, lifelong friends, former presidents, and prominent broadcasters tell the remarkable story of Billy Graham.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 921 BILSummary: Interviews, performances, and footage from church services illustrate the story of soul singer Al Green, who gave up a successful singing career to become a gospel singer and Pentecostal preacher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GOSSummary: A personal look at the extraordinary life, career, and artistry of Alexander McQueen. Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, it is an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MCQSummary: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful and beloved institutions in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CON RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CoCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONSummary: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TillCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD TILSummary: Follows Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's tumultuous election year, as well as other years in a career that encompassed numerous political and ideological triumphs. Though he never achieved the ultimate prize, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 vindicated the conservative agenda Goldwater had long championed. Ironically, in later years, Goldwater's support of issues like abortion and gay...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.Summary: A documentary film that will tell the bittersweet story of one of the most innovative comedians who ever graced the stage, screen and television, before his untimely death from a drug overdose at the tender age of only 33. Immortalized for his uniquely bold, energetic, and in-your-face comedic style, Chris Farley's off the charts talent cemented his place as a key player in a movement that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007