Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: John Turturro plays an extremely uptight engineer whose entire life is punctual and routine to the point of absurdity. He finds himself struggling with the monotony of everyday life and the threat of middle age. Then a routine business trip turns into a life-altering experience when he meets some bizarre but sincere strangers: a free spirit played by Sam Rockwell, a phone sex operator...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 1997
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOXSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: A look at life and everyday struggles in Havana through three main stories -- when a woman dies in childbirth, the new father runs away; a lonely woman is courted by an older man, but can't forget her first love; a couple's relationship crumbles when they can't conceive a child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cine Cubano a Precios Muy Bajos 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LostSummary: "When sad old Eeyore loses his tail, Owl sends the whole gang--Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga and Roo--on a wild journey to help Eeyore and save Christopher Robin from the mysterious Backson"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY WINSummary: Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AMBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMBSummary: Set during Gandhi's rise to power, Chuyia, an Indian girl that is married and widowed at eight years old, is sent away to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WATSummary: Will is locked in a mental asylum accused of Hannibal Lecter's crimes. Now that Will knows what Hannibal is, he faces a fight to prove his own sanity and convince those closest to him that he is innocent. Jack is dealing with his own feelings about Will, and whether his protege is a killer. Looking for answers, Jack looks to Lecter, who becomes the new consultant on cases. Lecter is torn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANSummary: With reality fraying at the edges, Aubrey finds herself following a string of mixtapes left by her dead friend. The clues unravel the secrets of a mysterious signal: one that could either save the world--or condemn it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starfish Pictures, LLC 2019
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISummary: When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUDSummary: Criminal minds revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRISummary: In this suspenseful fourteenth season, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit takes on their strangest cases and deadliest adversaries yet, including a murderous cult leader who takes Dr. Reid and Garcia hostage in the series' landmark 300th episode. From missing children and mysterious overdoses to sadistic serial killers and world-class assassins, each member of the team must get closer to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRISummary: A young FBI agent, Johnny Utah, infiltrates a cunning team of thrill-seeking elite athletes, led by the charismatic Bodhi. The athletes are suspected of carrying out a spate of crimes in extremely unusual ways. Deep undercover, and with his life in imminent danger, Utah strives to prove they are the architects of this string of inconceivable crimes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POISummary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: A hobo becomes an overnight celebrity. But, as usual, more fame leads to more power, and more power leads to more corruption. Will he be exposed as the fraud that he is?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACSummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: A military widow rents an apartment to an Army Captain recovering from an injury in battle. As they team up to save the town's military museum with a Christmas fundraising event, these two 'wounded birds' find themselves falling in love, and being healed by the magic of Christmas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHRSummary: A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring true story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GVN Releasing 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEASummary: Henry, a psychopathic drifter who has left a trail of bodies in his wake, settles for a while at the dilapidated Chicago apartment of ex-prison mate Otis. Into this toxic environment comes Otis's younger sister Becky, who's fleeing an abusive marriage and looking for a place to stay. Deflecting her brother's incestuous advances, Becky finds herself attracted to Henry and sees him as a potential...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY HENSummary: Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MER NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mercy 2016Summary: Eleven-year-old tomboy Toni is bewitched by the tight-knit dance team she sees practicing in the same Cincinnati gymnasium where she boxes with her brother. Enamored by the power and confidence of the strong community of girls, Toni neglects her boxing, and instead eagerly absorbs the dance routines and drills. But when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, Toni's desire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FITSummary: Spaceships appear and wonder turns to terror as they attack cities all over the earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002