Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001

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

Summary: A peace-loving prince of Judea, leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he learns to fight, to love, to hate and, finally, to forgive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

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

Summary: Four American astronauts crashland on an unchartered planet and discover it is ruled by a race of intelligent apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) soon finds himelf among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI PLA

Summary: Lavish Biblical epic that tells the life story of Moses, who turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom outside Egypt.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004

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

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

Summary: The story of the life of Moses from the Pharaoh's household through his life of leading his people to freedom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 1999

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

Summary: A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment, Inc. 2001

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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BIG

Summary: In eleventh century Spain, knight Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) attempts to rid his country of Moorish invaders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic El Cid

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

Summary: Chronicles Britain's crisis in the Sudan and the siege at Khartoum in 1883.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000

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