Summary: The story of Jesus of Nazareth, from his birth and teachings to His crucifixtion and Resurrection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE

Summary: Ram and Eddie are two jazz musicians living in Paris. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them or stay in Paris.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAR

Summary: Two men try to recover a winning lottery ticket from the underworld.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc. 2003

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

Summary: While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime, and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic In

Summary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUC

Summary: Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all ... he's releasing one criminal to stop another.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JAC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ja

Summary: A free-spirited ex-G.I. stumbles upon five German refugee nuns in Arizona and helps them build a chapel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic To Sir

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

D'Aulaire, Ingri

Summary: A collection of Greek myths.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD J D'AU

Summary: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic Blackboard

Summary: When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUE

Summary: Accidentally blinded as a child, 18-year-old Selina D'Arcey falls in love with a gentle and charming man, Gordon Ralfe, whom she meets in a rare visit to a park. Her racist mother declares that because Gordon is black, their relationship cannot continue, forcing Selina to choose between her family and her heart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment and Warner Home Video 2003

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

Summary: Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAI

Summary: Henry spends his time working in the brickyard owned by his family and grieving the loss of his wife. When a young boy enters Henry's life, both man and child find what they desperately need in each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2010

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD La

Summary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: Detective Virgil Tibbs has been assigned to solve the murder of a prostitute. His pal, a political-minded minister who is spearheading a referendum on community control, is suspected of the homicide and Tibbs is faced with the decision of whether or not to invesigate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THE