Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RoSummary: Newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set in this time, is troubled high school student Luke Shapiro who is a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WACSummary: On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee - on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined that only a secret group of despicable individuals with nothing to lose can avert a potential apocalypse. So, she has assembled the world's most dangerous super villains, given them a powerful arsenal of weapons, and sent them off on a suicide mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set 5: With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY GRESummary: Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Juno 2008Krasinski, John
Summary: After a man agrees to host an aspiring filmmaker in his home, he forms a relationship with the young woman that affects the rest of his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOBSummary: Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFTSummary: On Christmas at the North Pole, Santa's youngest son looks to use his father's high-tech operation for an urgent mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ARTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHRSummary: Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a suave charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HONSummary: Only a plea to President Lincoln can help when the father of a plantation girl is arrested and charged with espionage against the Yankees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh 9Summary: Young Frances and Elsie believe in fairies. The photographs the girls take of the winged beings put them at the center of a real-life controvery that sweeps through a recovering World War I England during 1917. Everyone is caught up in the excitement, including two of the era's most renowned men: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and master illusionist Harry Houdini. Are the photographs real or just a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An orphan adopted by a kind hotel manager who rents rooms to down-on-their-luck entertainers lives happily enough until the owner of the hotel complains about the noise her showbiz friends make and threatens to close the hotel and send her back to the orphanage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITSummary: In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISS RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MISSummary: Watch the classic story by James Thurber, about a daydreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance, and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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4 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SECCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Secret 2013Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SeSummary: A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict's missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MURSummary: The Hurst's are a married couple who are both dentists. Dana has been unhappy with their marriage lately. Backstage at a community theater production, David sees Dana in the arms of another man and is immediately certain she's having an affair. Slater, a disgruntled patient of the Hursts, has gone public with his unhappiness over their work. As he observes the obvious tension in David and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SECSummary: National Velvet: A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NATSummary: Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STESummary: True story of the Watergate break-in that led to the political scandal of the decade, based on the best-seller by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Includes Robert Redford and the Making of a Political Thriller and many other special features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALLSummary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009