Summary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic Grapes

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

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

Summary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank

Summary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13

Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THR

Summary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012

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

Summary: After young Lucas shoots some ants with his water pistol they retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks him to their size.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANT

Summary: Where his prior film, the acclaimed epic AQUARELA, was a reminder of the fragility of human tenure on earth, in GUNDA, master filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky movingly recalibrates our moral...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GUN

Summary: The destitute, selfish Duke of Bristol persuades a lovely, unselfish American heiress to attempt a month-long trial marriage in a Scottish castle. Another mismatched couple-- his impoverished, timid bachelor pal and a shrewish, wealthy widow-- join them, and all discover their shortcomings in this comedy of manners.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ON

Summary: "Master thief Lupin III, a.k.a. 'The Wolf, ' and his right-hand gunman Jigen are hot on the trail of a double-crossing counterfeiter. But when their search leads them to the secluded European country of Cagliostro, they find far more than they bargained for. Lupin unwittingly attracts the attention of the nation's mysterious monarch when he tries to help a damsel in distress escape the Count's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Manga Video 2000

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME CAS

Summary: A magical board game serves as a door to another dimension in this adventure fantasy. When a pair of orphans discover the game and start playing it they unwittingly unleash a man who's been trapped inside, as well as an array of stampeding jungle animals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JUM

Summary: A hired killer in a state of virtual living death goes about his business in a muted Paris, a city of shadows, only to fatally admit emotion (the love of a woman) into his life. His actions are analogous to hara-kiri committed by the solitary samurai. Melville takes the mythology of the gangster and removes all overt social comment in favour of romantic stylisation. Melville commented that his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Filmel 2005

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

Summary: In 1930's Britain, in the wake of a bloody civil war, the younger brother of the new King sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the throne for himself. Updated version of Shakespeare's tale.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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

Summary: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix. At least, he will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough, but loses it when a pretty swimming pool manager takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both the race and the girl. His problems don't get any easier when rival Elmo Mancini, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS VIV

Summary: Fearing foster homes and adoption, four orphaned siblings decide to keep their mother's death a secret, hiding her in a cement locker in the basement. Fraught with sexual tension and suspense, The cement garden is a chilling look at unrestrained adolescent desire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000

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

Summary: Evicted from their Manhattan apartment, Walter and Anna buy what looks like the home of their dreams, only to find themselves with a bank-account-draining nightmare.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Money 2002

Summary: Ed McBain's 87th precinct: Lightning: "In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detective work and clues left at the crime scenes by the psychopathic killer, they are able to deduce who the killer's next victim will be. A tense chase ensues as they try to prevent him from continuing his bloody...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 13M

Summary: Anna Karenina: When the young wife of a statesman runs off with a young officer, she is outcast and forbidden to see her son. Desperate, the woman comes to believe that life is no longer worth living -- A farewell to arms: When an injured American ambulance driver and English nurse desert to Switzerland, the danger they've struggled to escape is replaced by a more serious threat. -- Les...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: Officer Tom Hanson goes undercover as a high-school student with the Jump Street Unit, a special division of the police force that uses young cops to fight juvenile crime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD 21

Summary: Musical drama set in London, 1958. Film portrays lower class youths emerging from post-war privations and struggling to achieve mobility in the face of withering class, racial and economic barriers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ABS

Contents: The ladykillers (91 min.) -- The man in the white suit (85 min.) -- The Lavender Hill mob (81 min.) -- Kind hearts and coronets (106 min.) -- The captain's paradise (88 min.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2002

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALE