Summary: Told by 11-year-old Christy, a child wise beyond her years. An Irish couple bring their two young daughters to America in search of a better life. Christy and her sister, Ariel find New York's Hell Kitchen a place of magic where anything is possible. To their parents, it represents a place to begin anew. Carried by the girls' youthful hope and faith, the family finds the heart to live and love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie InSummary: Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, a young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE In RATED RSummary: Captain Sam Cahill is embarking on his fourth tour of duty, leaving behind his beloved wife and two daughters. When Sam's Blackhawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan, the worst is presumed, leaving an enormous void in the family. Despite a dark history, Sam's charismatic younger brother steps in to fill the family void.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRO RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROSummary: Surrounded by the conflict in Northern Ireland, Kathleen Quigley has managed to stay clear of it, devoting herself to her three children. Yet in a single moment, the war claims her as one of its living victims. Kathleen is caught in an inescapable political crossfire when her son, actively involved with the IRA, is jailed by the British.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SOMSummary: The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MY RATED RSummary: When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOXSummary: The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer, the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIESherman, Bim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE SHESherman, Bim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mantra 1996