Summary: Drama of a strong willed woman who attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life of her reclusive daughter, and how the daughter finds a way of escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLASummary: A dark drama of three sisters: a writer, an actress, and one groping for identity. When their father decides to divorce their shattered mother and remarry a spunky middle-aged widow, the three young women struggle to come to terms with each other and with themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTSummary: Explores the lesser-known tale of George's creators, Hans and Margret Rey. Years later, having heard that Hans was wasting his artistic talents as a bookkeeper in Rio, Margaret traveled to Brazil to persuade him to marry her and do something creative together. Arriving in New York as refugees, they started their life anew and over the next three decades, they created a classic that continues to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MONSummary: The Newsroom takes a behind-the-scenes look at a high-rated cable-news program at the fictional ACN Network, focusing on the on and off camera lives of its acerbic anchor, a new executive producer, and their newsroom staff.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NEWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NewsroomSummary: When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CAPSummary: Two nemeses become bonded jilted wives after their husbands reveal they have been having an affair with each other since the 1990s and now plan to get married. As Grace and Frankie muddle through ups and downs with their business, romantic relationships and families, they must face some realities of aging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRASummary: The Newsroom takes a behind-the-scenes look at a high-rated cable-news program at the fictional ACN Network, focusing on the on and off camera lives of its acerbic anchor, a new executive producer, and their newsroom staff.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NEWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NewsroomSummary: An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc CSummary: As Grace and Frankie try to get their new business off the ground, they continue to deal with family issues and rifts in their friendship. Two nemeses become bonded jilted wives after their husbands reveal they have been having an affair with each other since the 1990s and now plan to get married. They are not friends, but when their husbands leave them for each other, proper Grace and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRASummary: "Grace and Frankie tackle the challenges of family and relationships - while driving each other crazy on a regular basis! Grace and Frankie visit the beach house while their worried kids try to track them down. Robert and Saul are caught in an embarrassing situation."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRASummary: A poignant and bittersweet tale of tender sexual discovery in the rural Louisiana of the 1950s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANSummary: A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MICSummary: Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONTSummary: For as long as they can recall, Grace and Frankie have been rivals. Their one-upmanship comes crashing to a halt, however, when they learn that their husbands have fallen in love with each other and want to get married. As everything around the ladies is coming apart, the only thing they can really rely on is each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRA NOT RATEDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Grace 2016Summary: After learning their ex-husbands plan to marry one another, lifelong rivals Grace and Frankie have bonded in an uneasy friendship. The second season of this acclaimed comedy series brings more laughs and surprises as Grace and Frankie tackle the challenges of family and relationships, while driving each other crazy on a regular basis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRA NOT RATEDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Grace 2017Summary: One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate - because he's having to much fun!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOPSummary: Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc Corp. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LINSummary: "Frankie is stunned by Grace's news, but she buries her feelings, until everyone gathers together to send off Bud and Allison. While Frankie tries to adjust to living alone, Grace arranges a family dinner that takes an awkward turn. Robert and Sol plan a honeymoon trip. Grace's insecurities flair at a lavish fundraiser, where Frankie gets swept up in the silent auction. Sol hosts a game night...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRASummary: The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KILSummary: This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2008