Summary: The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: Dramatizes the true story of William Douglas "Chameleon" Street, a quick-witted, self-tutored young man from Detroit who barely managed to earn a high school diploma, yet in the 70's managed to pull off a series of high-profile hoaxes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DOWSummary: They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alcon Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has run away. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days if he doesn't find the missing girl, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman, and his own path to redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRISummary: Silent film reenactment detailing the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. The film was commissioned to Sergei Eisenstein to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Eisenstein chose to capture the spirit of the era by focusing on one place at one point in time: Petrograd between February and October 1917, and using a political perspective. The original version was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OCTSummary: Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, and Santa slays evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CHRSummary: A suburban woman fights to be believed as she finds herself stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night. When she can't get help from those around her, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LUCSummary: After eight years on life-support, Charlie Manx finally dies and the news hits Vic hard; she can't believe it's over... and with good reason. Soon Manx is back and desperate for revenge against the woman who put him in critical condition, and her whole family -- but especially her son -- is under threat. Allies new and old on both sides are ready to battle for the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NOSSummary: Ruth's misanthropic unborn baby speaks to her from the womb, coaching her to lure and ultimately kill her unsuspecting victims. Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the moment of motherhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRESummary: When Indigenous woman Alex Irving gains national acclaim for her heroism against a rampaging gunman, Australia's embattled Prime Minister Rachel Anderson sees a publicity goldmine and handpicks Alex for the Senate. But Alex wants to be more than just a political stunt, and when Rachel betrays her, Alex seeks revenge that will upend the political establishment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TOTSummary: David and Creeper, are "tax collectors" for the crime lord Wizard, collecting his cut from the profits of local gangs' illicit dealings. But when Wizard's old rival returns to Los Angeles from Mexico, the business is upended, and David finds himself desperate to protect what matters more to him than anything else: his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAXCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TaSummary: Detective Murdoch continues his inventive detective work with Ogden's unflinching support even after an investigation leads him to a family member that he never knew about.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURSummary: Amanda Price gets propelled into the scheming 19th century world of Pride and Prejudice while the book's Elizabeth Bennet is hurled into hers. As the plot unfolds, Amanda triggers new romantic twists and turns as she tries to help the Bennet sisters nab husbands and even manages to captivate the tantalizing Mr. Darcy. But what about Elizabeth, and what will become of one of the world's greatest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LSummary: The Criterion Collection is proud to present this director approved edition, with new transfers and extensive interviews with the director and his colleagues. Includes: Generation, Kanal, & Ashes and Diamonds. Descriptions are under each title.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANDSummary: From real-life friends Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent's music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo's creative lives. From first-time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NOWSummary: Adaptation of three Stephen King stories, a horror anthology which presents gruesome looks at a hit-and-run driver, a wooden Indian, and a vacation gone wrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CRESummary: Complications ensue when Elivira moves to a conservative Massachusetts town to sell her late aunt's estate. From Hollywood to Las Vegas, from screaming gremlins to campy schtick to witchy graveyard warfare, this film is bursting at the seams with morbid and monstrous misadventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELVSummary: The old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad are about to welcome a few new faces, but first, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her loyal team, Gerry Standing, Brian Lane, and Steve McAndrew, will solve their final cases together, bringing justice to decades-old murders that stumped London's Metropolitan Police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWSummary: Enjoy the best of one of America's most popular TV comedies with a phenomenal cast. The special 50th anniversary collection includes 20 classic episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV DICSummary: Apple Annie, a fruit peddler, throws a party for Count Romero, whose son is engaged to her beautiful daughter. With a little help from a big-time gambler and a few other instant "members of society," she keeps the imposture going-- for a while.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LADSummary: One of television's police dramas, Naked City puts a human face on crime, going beyond a simplistic portrayal of good vs. evil to delve into the complex personal dramas of the people involved.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NAKSummary: Charlie Manx, a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children, has his whole world threatened when a young woman in New England discovers she has a dangerous gift.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019