Summary: Adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's classic 1902 adventure novel about the British Empires exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Kordas legendary production company, London Films. Set at the end of the nineteenth century, follows the travails of a young officer accused of cowardice after he resigns his post on the eve of a major deployment to Khartoum; he must fight to redeem...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FOU

Summary: After a 25 year war destroys civilization, a group of scientific supermen set out to build a new one in this science fiction film. Decades later, their progress is threatened by a reactionary who urges the masses to rise up in protest.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TAL

Summary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CAS

Summary: Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by familial betrayal and Spain's invading army. She and her shrewd advisor must act to safeguard the lives of her people. When the dashing seafarer, Walter Raleigh, captures her heart, Elizabeth is forced to make her most tragic sacrifice for the good of her country. A tale of one woman's crusade to control her love, destroy her enemies and secure her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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

Downey, Robert Jr.

Summary: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson seek out their nemesis Dr. Moriarty, believed to be behind the rising tensions between European countries.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHE

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHE RATED PG 13

Statham, Jason

Summary: Danny, an assassin, retires to the outback, but when his former partner is kidnapped, Danny is forced to take on a group of retired SAS soldiers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KIL

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

Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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

Summary: As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013

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

Summary: In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish resistance and they must prevent it's being delivered to the Germans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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

Summary: The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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

Contents: Merlin -- Merlin's apprentice -- Merlin: the return.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2018

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

Summary: In Amsterdam of 1642, master painter Rembrandt Van Rijn enjoys a full life until the sudden death of his wife. Bankrupt and bereft, he finds comfort in a pretty servant in his home. Can he summon the courage to overcome his demons or will tragedy continue to haunt him?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2001

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

Summary: An uncompromising portrayal of swinging London's criminal underworld. Quintessentially British and with a documentary-style commitment towards accuracy, it mixes meticulously constructed, high-octane action sequences with taut suspense and gritty realism, making it the groundbreaking template for future crime dramas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THI

Summary: A pulp fiction writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna at the invitation of a friend who has offered him a job. Once there, he discovers that a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market and his friend has recently died in a mysterious traffic accident. As he begins to unravel the story behind his friend's death, he finds himself entangled in the black market, the police, and his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY THI

Summary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Summary: A band of rabbits escapes the threatened collapse of their highly developed civilization only to find the same dangers (predatory men and beasts, and a totalitarian state imposed by their own species) in their new domain. Animated

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Watership

Summary: Eighteen of Alfred Hitchcock's early films (1926-1939), and two episodes of his television program (1955-1962). Includes 55 minutes of movie trailers spanning Hitchcock's legendary career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HIT

Summary: Featured are a series of comic sketches about a post-nuclear London: a girl is seventeen months pregnant, a father turns into a parrot, a man becomes a chest of drawers, and another man becomes a bed sitting room.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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

Summary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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

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

Summary: In the mid-1930's the great politican and orator Winston Churchill was out of favor with the English people and struggling to make his voice heard. Wrestling with his personal demons, a lonely but defiant Churchill attempts to warn the world of the impending gloom surrounding Hitlers' Germany.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2003

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

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 PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO