Summary: The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscarʼ- nominated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIDSummary: Faith believes she is destined to marry someone named Damon, but he never appears; that is, until she is about to marry someone else.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1994
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Only 1994Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONLSummary: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The Sixteenth Round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HURSummary: Loretta, an "unlucky in love" Italian widow finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A millionaire Bostonian who robs banks for fun gets romantically involved with the insurance investigator assigned to track him down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ThomasSummary: Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Family FiddlerCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FidTopol
Summary: Tevye the milkman struggles to raise five daughters as observant Jews in the rapidly changing society of pre-revolutionary Ukraine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIDSummary: Pillow talk: Two single professionals find themselves sharing a party line - and a whole lot more - when they get their lines crossed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DORSummary: While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime, and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic InSummary: A superstitious Brooklyn widow is ready to get married again. Only this time, she plans on doing it right - even if she has to say "yes" to a man she doesn't really love. When she unexpectedly falls in love with her fiancé's estranged brother Ronny, what happens next is a wonderful romantic complication.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOOSummary: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Side A. Her alibi (90 min.) -- Side B. Forget Paris (87 min.) -- Disc 2. Side A. Goodbye girl (103 min.) -- Best friends (109 min.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 4Summary: The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CincinnatiSummary: The story focuses on the riotous confusion created when a Russian submarine gets stuck on a New England sandbar and the landing crew goes ashore for help-only to be mistaken for an invasion force by the over-imaginative townspeople.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002