Summary: London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the Philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC QUASummary: The story unfolds on a beautiful summer day in London, in 1923, while Clarissa Dalloway recalls a summer in the country, in 1890, when she was young and beautiful and very much courted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: Thirty-two vignettes, spanning pianist Glenn Gould's life from age four until his death at fifty, give an impressionistic depiction of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: 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: In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINSummary: Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ROMSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MYSummary: Zane Malik is a young detective at the Major Crime Squad in Sydney, Australia. He's also a Muslim, in a post - 9/11 world where such an identity automatically arouses suspicion and fear. He's a good husband and father and a dedicated cop with one main problem on the job: Detective Sergeant Ray Crowley. Crowley's an old school policeman for whom rules and regulations play a poor second to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EASSummary: Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Fantastic 2010Copies Available at East Bay
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FANSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: Tells the saga of the ill-fated 1928 Arctic expedition headed by Italian Unberto Nobile. After the crash of their dirigible, Italia, the survivors huddle in their makeshift red canvas dwelling, desperately sending out S.O.S. signals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REDSummary: Cuba: Connery stars as a cynical mercenary poised to benefit from the political upheaval in Havana in 1959.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLSummary: A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YEEWORLD BOOK
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WORLD BOOK 1999
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: 551 WORLDSummary: Adaptation of the stage production which relocates the action to a nameless 20th-century underground facility, offering a parable of the quest for power in the modern world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS MACSummary: Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 2Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2013Summary: A mini-series based on Thackeray's story of an amoral beauty determined to scheme and seduce her way into Britain's upper classes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VANSummary: David Attenborough returns to the world's oceans in this sequel to the acclaimed documentary filming rare and unusual creatures of the deep, as well as documenting the problems our oceans face.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BLUSummary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013