Summary: Al-Fayeed "Barry", the son of a war-torn country's controversial dictator, returns to his homeland after a self-imposed exile in the U.S. But the lives of Barry and his American family are suddenly upended when Barry's volatile brother, Jamal, ascends to the throne. Barry's western views are pitted against Jamal's wife, Leila, who wants her husband to rule with an iron fist. Barry finds himsel...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TYRSummary: Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettis is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington as she interviews the ruthless but impeccably dressed dictator, Juan Venegas. When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Relativity Media LLC 2024
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FRE1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FREECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie FreelanceSummary: The creators and star of Borat bring you the hilarious comedy about what happens when the world's worst dictator comes to America. Stuck in New York and stripped of his power, Aladeen is finally forced to live his ultimate nightmare, the American dream. Featuring never-before-seen footage, that's outrageous and shamefully funny!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DICSummary: Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TOTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ToSummary: Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. Then something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI TOTSummary: "As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home." --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FUR1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FURSummary: Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LastMontero, Rosa
Summary: "Hablar de algunos de los tiranos mas conocidos del siglo XX a traves de la vision de sus esposas, amantes e hijas, y del lugar que la mujer ocupaba en sus proyectos megalomaniacos, es poder ahondar en la historia europea desde otra perspectiva y ampliar la comprension de las tragedias sociales por medio del analisis de las tragedias domesticas. Es como meterse por la puerta de atras de las...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Debols!llo 2017
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MONKendzior, Sarah
Summary: "Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image? Can you tell lies without blinking an eye? Do you see enemies all around you? If you answered yes to all of the above, then this is the job for you! And if becoming a dictator sounds intriguing, well, you've just stumbled upon the playbook that will guide you step by step towards making your big lie a reality. Join Gaslit Nation co-hosts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023