Summary: Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANGSummary: Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Book 2014Summary: Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods, and while practicing, he finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY CORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CorpseSummary: Based on the life of actor/director Richard E. Grant's life during the 1960s, when Swaziland was becoming independent of Great Britain. Told through the eyes of a 12-year-old child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WAHSummary: When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOXSummary: Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EVE RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EVESummary: To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family. But the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college, decades after leaving to raise her children, a devastating accident will bring the family's history and relationships to light.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIRSummary: Spurred on by the 60s and its radical ideals, boyhood friends Chris and Toni set their sights on a single goal - escape Metroland and its suburban way of life. When they finally break free, Chris travels to Paris where he embarks on a torrid love affair with a French woman. Toni sets off for the great unknown as he explores the world. Nine years pass before Toni returns home. And when he does,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY METSummary: Present day Scotland. A tale is told to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman in a pub. Angus is a lonely boy who pines for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister and mother, live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop's commander has an eye for mom, is suspicious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family WaterCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WSummary: Inspired by true events, this charming romantic comedy recounts the glorious celebration of the end of World War II in Europe; and the singular evening when Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret leave the confines of Buckingham Palace to join the festivities, while giving their chaperones the slip.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROYSummary: A wealthy Englishman finds out that his spouse has been cheating on him and is drawn into a web of cover-ups and lies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEPSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EQUSummary: Set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, shows the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOS RATED RSummary: Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeSummary: When the secret organization headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads the agents to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents' strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE KINSummary: The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit's end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween night, they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster. Now Emma will fight to keep her monster...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoSummary: In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONSummary: A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman₂s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESSummary: The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TheoryCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THE RATED PG-13Irvine, Jeremy
Summary: Albert Narracott enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse Joey is sold to the cavalry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAR PG-13Summary: Tim is a man who is still haunted by traumatic memories of his past, many linked to the death of his father. Desperate to resolve his nightmarish issues, Tim returns to his old hometown so he can pay a visit to the house where he grew up. But while Tim wants to convince himself the ghostly memories he carries are just a figment of his imagination, circumstances lead him to believe that there...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005