Summary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLISummary: Otis Garner (Ernest Borgnine) was in his fifties when he walked out on his wife and kids. During a bittersweet reunion with his son Ted thirty years later, Otis hears a story about one special summer when Ted struggled with his own breaking point. An ambitious flashback shows the overworked Ted pressured to make time for his own young son Mike, and his buddy Andy, who want to spend the summer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Brauer Productions 0000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THASummary: It is the Middle Ages, and nothing is more feared in England than Viking warriors. In one of many raids, Viking leader Ragnar kills the English king and forces himself on the Queen. With the King dead, his brother takes the thrown but unknown to anyone but a trusted servant, the Queen is now with child. In order to protect the boy, he is sent away to be raised in safety away from the new King....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VIKSummary: At the rise of what would become known as World War I, German patriot Paul Baumer and his friends enlist in the Imperial German Army. In search of adventure and eager to assert the superiority of their nation, the young men endure a brutal training camp and soon find themselves face to face with the full horrors of war when they are sent to the front lines to fight, and likely die.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLSummary: Pardoned instead of Christ, Barabbas is haunted for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulfur mines and then to gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BARSummary: Still mourning the loss of her family, Ellie agrees to watch her brother's children when he has to leave town. When a fire is set, Ellie works with a handsome deputy to clear a friends name and learns that if she can trust her faith, this Christmas may bring more miracles than she hoped.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday LCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: Outlaws on the U.S.-Mexican border face the march of progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former member as they plan to rob a U.S. Army train.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN WILSummary: All dogs go to heaven: Set in 1939 New Orleans, the story centers on Charles B. Barkin, a roguish German shepherd with the charm of a con man and the heart of a marshmallow. Out for revenge against his double-crossing former partner, a cigar-chomping pit bull known as Carface, Charlie finds himself guardian to a lonely little orphan named Anne-Marie. Her astounding ability to talk to animals...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALLSummary: A trucker, whose CB nickname is "Rubber Duck," is pursued through three states by an implacable police officer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CONSummary: Three centuries ago, Jonathan Corbis led a coven of witches. Ancestors of the Preston family had betrayed Corbis by concealing the sacred book in which Corbis had recorded the names of those who had given themselves to the devil. For hundreds of years the Prestons have been able to keep the book from Corbis. Corbis wreaks vengeance against the Prestons, bringing the movie to a horrifying...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Sky Films 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: All Tony (Joey Albright) wanted was a simple weekend of ice fishing. What he got was frozen stupid. It's a beautiful winter Saturday, and Tony Norgard (Joey Albright) really wants to go ice fishing. But he's supposed to attend his mother-in-law's birthday party the same day. To solve the dilemma, Tony feigns illness and stays in bed. While his little white lie allows him the chance for a secret...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Brauer Productions 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FROSummary: In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN JUBSummary: Danny Quinn wants to prove his late father was right about a pirate treasure in the depths of Lake Michigan. One night he meets the ghost of the old pirate Picaroon, who tells him the location of the lost treasure but also warns him about a mysterious foe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Entertainment Group 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Lost 2006Summary: Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a girl with similar fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARSummary: The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1996
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN WILSummary: A farmer who refuses to sell his family's farm to a developer and a Native American woman whose family once worked the farm stand together against the township, landowners and developer to preserve the cherished land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BARSummary: Twelve tough criminals will be offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Based on E.M. Nathanson's book.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIRSummary: A legendary depression-era hobo and his young accomplice battle a sadistic railroad worker in a determined bid to hitch a ride.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EMPSummary: The forgotten: Nine-year-old Sam Paretta is dead, killed in a plane crash. Even though it's been fourteen months since the accident, his mother, Telly, still grieves over the loss. But suddenly, her husband swears they never had a child and her psychiatrist insists she's delusional. Worst of all, there is absolutely no evidence to prove Sam ever existed. Haunted by the memories of her son,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2007
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FORSummary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic FromCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FROSummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: Found grievously injured by rancher Shep Horgan, Jubal Troop, a man who's life has been dogged by bad luck, is offered a job as a cowhand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2005
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JUBSummary: When Roger, a delinquent boy, is sent to live with his grandfather for the summer, he discovers his grandfather is secretly protecting a friendly, turtle-like creature named Mel. Because of Roger's reckless behavior, his grandfather is put in jail, and a greedy land developer captures Mel. To free his grandfather and save Mel, Roger has to take responsibility for his actions and find the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MELSummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019