Summary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIGSummary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: Musical drama set in London, 1958. Film portrays lower class youths emerging from post-war privations and struggling to achieve mobility in the face of withering class, racial and economic barriers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ABSSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JERCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jersey 2014Summary: Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FULSummary: Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEG RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Megan 2017Summary: "[H]andsome young Tariq is about to marry Bilquis, eldest daughter of a prominent and powerful judge. But as he wanders the ancient city of Sana'a late one night, he spots a beautiful young woman dancing in the street and falls madly in love with her. Before long, the young groom must choose between following his heart and protecting his family's honor."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NEWSummary: It is a harrowing tale of perseverance and survival that unfolds during the great copper rush of 1845, when newlyweds Angelique, a young Ojibway, and Charlie, her voyageur husband, are left stranded throughout a brutal winter on Lake Superior's Isle Royale where Angelique is ultimately forced to face her inner demons and beliefs as the unbelievably beautiful, yet treacherous wilderness...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The story of Marie Colvin, a war correspondent who suffered an eye injury after being struck by a grenade in Sri Lanka.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRISummary: There are no wars to fight. But Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway, a dog-faced relic of past wars, still has a lot of fight in him. He is a Marine Corps lifer who started his last tour of duty before retirement, and sees the bumpy road his life has taken become more complicated, due to feisty recruits, by-the-book officers, and a salty ex-wife to whom he's still attracted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HEA RATED RSummary: An autobiographical film based on the director's life beginning in 1942 during Hitler's struggle to wrest Egypt, especially the city Alexandria, from the British Army. Yehia, an aspiring actor, and his friends experience the impact of war. Yehia studies cinema in Alexandria, stages his first makeshift productions, and finally reaches the conclusion that his future lies in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALESummary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: A switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BELSummary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SENSummary: Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ANNCopies Available at Kingsley
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ANNSummary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMSummary: A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FAISummary: Five (1951) Black and White 93 minutes Not Rated Starring: William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee When a nuclear bomb destroys the world, only five survivors remain. A pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a banker and an explorer seek shelter in an abandoned house. As the last living human beings, they must work together. However, their clashing visions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CLAAndrews, Julie
Summary: A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SoSummary: The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MISSummary: Errol Flynn is one of Hollywood's greatest leading men: a lusty and vivacious actor who lived a swashbuckling life of glamour and scandal on and off the screen. Btu few remember the icon's last May-December romance that shocked a nation. It's a sensational, unforgettable look at Hollywood's golden age and the desire for fame and acceptance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASSummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSmith, Will
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