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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans Drama African Americans in motion pictures Feature films Films for the hearing impaired Man-woman relationships Drama Murder Drama Painters England Drama Robeson, Paul 1898-1976 Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) 1775-1851 DramaSummary: "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 PAUSummary: Based on the non-fiction book written by Daniel James Brown, and directed by George Clooney, this is the story of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. This inspirational true story follows a group of underdogs at the height of the Great Depression as they are thrust into the spotlight and take on elite rivals from around the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: A group of Palestinian and Israeli women attends a video workshop at a small town community center run by Rona, a young filmmaker from Tel Aviv, who teaches them to document their lives. As each student shares footage from her home life with the others, their beliefs and preconceptions are challenged and barriers are broken down. The group comes together as mothers, daughters, wives, and women,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CINSummary: 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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAIBillingsley, John
Summary: When the colleagues of a retiring college professor throw him a going-away party, the academic reveals he's a 14,000-year-old immortal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While spending months trapped in an elevator, a man and a woman discuss their sexual histories and develop a tenuous relationship as their situation becomes more and more hallucinatory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELESummary: In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies' plans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN GIASummary: Claire and Evelyn are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard, the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph, her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOVSummary: Vacation with the gang as they meet crazy bandits and go on even crazier adventures. When Kooky Cookie gets caught up in a diamond heist and goes missing, the Shoppies must go on a wild chase around the world to find her and help bring back the "Shop Diamond" to its royal owner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SHOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD ShopkinsSummary: Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in the whirlwind of preparations for her terminally ill father's birthday party, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day builds to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol and her family begin to understand the gravity of this year's celebration. Lila Avilés directs a dynamic ensemble cast in this stunning...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KNISummary: Naruto, Kakashi, Sakura and Lee must escort a spoiled prince back to his home in Moon Country, encountering a wacky circus and a mysterious ninja along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME NARSummary: Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF WADSummary: A one-night stand develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men in the English Midlands, in an emotionally naked film that's both a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary gay living, and a portrait of a love affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WEEFehling, Alexander
Summary: After an aspiring poet fails his law exams, he is sent to work in the countryside where he falls in love with a woman who is promised to another man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOUSummary: "Bea and Ben look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold - until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So, they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple" -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ANYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANYSummary: A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CANSummary: Elite fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner become the U.S. Navy's most celebrated wingmen during the Korean War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DEVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEVSummary: Frankie is an African-American go-go dancer with dissociative identity disorder (DID). She struggles to retain her true self while fighting against two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist named Alice. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014