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Communicable diseases Drama Detective and mystery plays Epidemics Drama Feature films Fraternities and sororities United States Drama Human experimentation in medicine New York (State) New York Drama Man-woman relationships Drama New York (N.Y.) Drama Population Drama Women college students United States DramaSummary: Billionaire Red Stevens wants to bequeath at least one member of his extended family "the ultimate gift:" something he perceives as immensely more valuable than material wealth. Jason holds a deep-seated hatred for his newly-deceased grandfather, so he's surprised to learn that he's been mentioned in his late grandfather's will. Far from a straightforward gift, Red's bequest comes in the form...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ULTWelles, Orson
Summary: A plain, independent-minded governess finds romance and a terrifying secret working at the home of the mysterious Mr. Rochester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JANSummary: On the evening of December 11, 1936, England's King Edward VIII formally broadcast his farewell to a nation. Torn between duty and love, he had decided to follow his heart. Follows the true story and the unforgettable romance that developed between the Prince of Wales and an extraordinary American woman named Wallis Simpson. That she was already married and rumored to have had other affairs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EDWSummary: King Henry, now in failing health and still embroiled in war, sends his second son Prince John of Lancaster to the battle. Prince John tricks and defeats the enemy while his older son, the Prince of Wales, is summoned away from Falstaff and his tavern circle to the king's bedside where he assumes the throne upon the death of the king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1987
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENSummary: A dramatization of William Shakespeare's historical play. Upon the murder of Richard II, Henry assumes the throne, and is immediately confronted with rebellion by Owen Glendower, Douglas of Scotland, Northumberland and his son Hotspur. The play also treats the moral development of the king's son Hal (later Henry V).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1979
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENSummary: The Tardis materializes on the runway of Gatwick Airport, where Polly witnesses a murder only to be kidnapped before she can report it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITSummary: Serafina is a Sicillian woman who now lives in the American South. She is mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile, emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been having an affair. Luckily, Serafina meets truck driver Mangiacavello and their tentative romance may help her through this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROSSummary: A retired safecracker thought his criminal past was behind him for good, but when his witless son-in-law fails to repay a ruthless loan shark, violent threats force him to take on one last job to protect his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SORSummary: While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Series John 2008Summary: In the period of several days, Katharina's privacy and her honor are destroyed, first by the police who terrorize her, and then by the yellow press, which creates in her name the image of a politicized Bonnie Parker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOSSummary: When the husband of a high-society woman is killed in an accident, she realizes she has nothing left except a house in rural Georgia that is being used as a foster home. Moving in with the intentions of selling it, she finds a new meaning and purpose to her life when she ends up helping to care for the rebellious teenagers who live there that have issues of their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSSummary: A postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital, in the midst of the Nazi blitz. But was his death accidental?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Facing 2006Summary: A noted child psychologist attempts to help a frightened 8 year old boy who is experiencing terrifying visions of the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sixth 2000Summary: Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PREVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TROSummary: When Playboy Bunny, Shelly, is tossed out of the Playboy Mansion, she has nowhere to go. She quickly falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority, all seven of whom are socially inept, are about to lose their house. The girls need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide. Eventually, the girls, and Shelly, learn to stop pretending to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Summary: New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DIESummary: Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ISummary: A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LEM
Summary: Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003