Summary: Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IN

Goodman, John

Summary: Follows the lives of a group of New Orleans residents in the Tremé neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRE

Summary: A young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was abandoned after a tragic accident. With the help of her crippled cousin Colin, and Dickon the country boy, her spirit is gradually reawakened as they bring the garden back to life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SEC
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SEC

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Secret 1997

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

Summary: The true story of Solomon Perel, born in Germany in 1925 of Polish-Jewish parents, who survives World War II by concealing his true identity and by living as a Nazi for seven years.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EUR

Summary: Set on the eve of world WWII, Hitler is rising to power and Stalin's Soviet propaganda machine is pushing their "utopia" to the West. Meanwhile an ambitious young journalist, Gareth Jones travels to Moscow to uncover the truth behind the propaganda, but then gets a tip that could expose an international conspiracy, one that could cost him and his informant their lives. Jones goes on a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2020

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

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MR.

Summary: A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI

Summary: Its January 1977 and Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. Gary's youngest brother, Mikal, can help prevent the execution, but first he has to get to know the brother he barely remembers. Born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition, the brothers discover their shared past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002

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