Summary: Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EIG

Summary: Colin, a young rebel and promising distance runner, is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. However, the opposition for Colin isn't another runner, it's the Establishment.

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 LON

Summary: When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MOD

Summary: The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS-Fox Video 1992

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOD

Summary: Two flawed families, each scarred by catastrophe, find a home for their hearts in an acclaimed Australian miniseries. Adapted by Tim Winton from his award-winning novel, set around Perth from 1943-63, it's gripping, poignant, and gorgeous. The Lambs are hardworking and God-fearing, the Pickles are luckless and derelict, yet they find common ground beneath the same roof. Exquisitely filmed with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2012

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLO

Summary: A landmark film in early sound production this is a left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom works his way up from salesman to factory owner. He oversees a highly mechanised operation where the workers are reduced to mere automatons. Blackmailed over his past, he joins up with his old cellmate, and the pair take to the road as tramps. Frequently acknowledged as the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANO

Summary: Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EAS

Summary: Details the gritty rural lives and loves of Tommo and Charlie -- two young brothers -- and their poor Devonshire family from 1909 until 1916, when the outbreak of war destroys their country idyll. Both join up (one under age) leaving behind the beautiful Molly who is the love of both their lives. The young men survive gas attacks, shelling, German troops and the appalling deaths of their close...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRI

Summary: A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2009

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Overboard

Summary: "Most TV shows celebrated the holiday season with warm & fuzzy Christmas specials. But for the cast, crew and creators of 'Roseanne', the year's best celebrations always belonged to Halloween. In these seven classic episodes, the Conners unleash tricks and treats on one of the greatest sitcoms in television history ..."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Roseanne

Summary: It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA IMI

Summary: Season Eighteen was a historic one; the last before the Simpsons movie, the season-finale 400th episode, 24 Minutes, Treehouse of Horror XVII with the sepia-tone classic "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" and much much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIM

Summary: A vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie, a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SCR

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAT

Kristian, Isaiah

Summary: Follows the intense family life of three brothers living in the shadow of their parents' passionate love, and their own profound sense of family unity and belonging.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WE

Summary: "In the years between 1912 and 1914, King Edward VII is dead and war looms"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 1974

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 3

Summary: One of the most loved television series of all time is brought back to life with a fresh cast and sumptuous production values. It's 1936, and six years since parlor maid Rose left 165 Eaton Place, when fate brings her back as housekeeper to its new owners: Sir Hallam, his wife Lady Agnes, and Maud, Lady Holland, his mother. Rose soon finds she has her work cut out as she recruits a new...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corporation 2011

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UP

Summary: An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIF

Summary: "The fifth and final series portrays the post-war period of 1919 to 1930"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 5

Summary: "Series four takes place during the Great War, from 1914-18, and no one is unaffected"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 4

Summary: Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THI

Summary: After finding a bagful of unmarked $100 bills, there were a million reasons for unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle to give the money back, but he couldn't think of one good enough.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Money 2003

Summary: The lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place are followed. Upstairs lives Richard Bellamy, the head of the household, and also a member of Parliament. His wife is a member of the titled aristocracy. Downstairs is Hudson, the Scottish butler who directs and guides the other servants concerning their tasks and proper places.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 1

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UPS

Summary: Season two of the landmark series finds Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kirbridge returning from their honeymoon to set up their new household in nearby Greenwich, Sarah tells James she's having his baby and the Bellamys make provisions to avoid a major scandal, Mrs. Bridges is the envy of every cook in Mayfair and Belgravia when His Majesty, King Edward VII dines at Eaton Place, and much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 2