Summary: An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Entertainment Inc. 2002

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

Summary: "Shot entirely in Siam, the film tells the story of a farmer and his family who have settled a small patch of land on the edge of the jungle. Their existence is a constant struggle against the many wild animals around, "--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. 2000

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

Summary: Carl Denham is a filmmaker and entrepreneur who leads an expedition to Skull Island. The island is a place where time has stood still. The natives pay homage to the one whom they revere as "Kong", and who is, indeed, king of the island. Denham, together with his beautiful starlet, Ann Darrow, and the crew of the ship, investigate the strange ritual being performed on the island by its native...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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

Summary: A documentary in which Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison travel through Asia Minor and Iraq to reach a tribe of nomads in Iran known as the Bakhtyari. They follow the tribe on its forty-eight day trek across deserts, streams, and mountains to reach pasture for their flocks. These three poeple were the first Westerners to cross the Zardeh Kuh Pass and the first to make...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 1999

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC Gra

Summary: She wore a yellow ribbon : Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. 3 Godfathers: Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRE

Summary: Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape, Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KIN

Summary: A Cavalry unit on the Mexican border in the 1880s conducts a campaign against marauding Indians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures Home Video 2002

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN Rio

Summary: A desperately short-staffed cavalry outpost must try to stop an Indian invasion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SHE