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Summary: Nine film adaptations of P.D. James novels featuring Scotland Yard's Adam Dagliesh.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PD

Summary: A family epic spanning four decades from the 1960s to the 1990s. Focusing on two brothers, Nicola and Matteo, the film incorporates defining events in Italy's history, including the hippy movement, the flood of Florence, the Red Brigades, Mafia scandals, kidnapping and political assassinations.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: For more than 500 years, Porterhouse College has cherished tradition above all else. Unfortunately, its traditions mostly involve decadent banquets, drunkenness, and undistinguished scholarship. Enter Sir Godber Evans, a new master hell-bent on reform. Of course, the dinosaurs on the faculty resist him at every term. But Head Porter Skullion emerges as Sir Godber's most formidable foe--a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POR

Summary: In the far future, the remote desert world of Dune becomes the epicenter of a spectacular struggle that will spark a revolution, fulfill an ancient prophecy, and forever change the galactic balance of power.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DUN

Summary: Thirteen year-old Nell Trent lives with her ailing grandfather in a run down London antique shop, unaware that her grandfather has a ruinous gambling addiction that has left them nearly penniless.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Cla Dickens Old

Summary: Hordes of winged monkey-bats, a shape-shifting dog, and a cyber-punk sorceress can all be found in the vast hidden underworld known as The O.Z. Zooey Deschanel stars in this science fiction update of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. When small-town waitress D.G. (Deschanel) unexpectedly lands in the dangerous wasteland known as The O.Z., she'll need the help of three unlikely friends...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TIN

Summary: Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THO

Summary: The castle of Gormenghast is home to the ancient family of Groan, where nothing has changed in thousands of years. The dynasty is threatened by the charming and evil kitchen-boy, Steerpike. With the birth of a new heir, Titus Groan, Steerpike begins his ruthless ascent to power. As he charms, outwits and terrorizes the castle's inhabitants, only Titus, the young timid Earl of Groan, stands in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GOR

Contents: Disc 1. When the Green Woods laugh -- Disc 2. A breath of French air -- Disc 3. Stranger at the gates -- Disc 4. The happiest days of your life -- Disc 5. Climb the greasy pole.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed under exclusive license from Granada International by BFS Video 2004

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DAR

Summary: 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 C

Summary: Louis L'Amour's epic western saga of brothers who blazed a name across the untamed post-Civil War New Mexico frontier.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SAC

Summary: The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LON

Summary: The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus' -- and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an émigré Soviet General who was also a British agent sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 1982

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SMI

Summary: Rich Man, Poor Man recounts the lives of immigrant brothers Rudy and Tom Jordache for two decades following WWI. One will gain great wealth and power, the other will struggle through life as a boxer and gangster thug; but both continue an epic struggle to gain the love of Julie Prescot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RICH

Summary: Now in her twenties, Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla's death. Gilbert is offered a position in New York and he convinces Anne to go with him. Big city life isn't what they expected. After her script is stolen, they travel from New York to the war effort in Europe and they eventually return to Prince Edward Island.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2002

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

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

Summary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MEN

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

Summary: Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again for Oliver, landing him in alternately...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2004

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV OLI

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Summary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANG

Summary: When an air force pilot shoots down a mysterious UFO, the military is confronted with a brutal, terrifying alien force.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 1998

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Summary: In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TAL

Summary: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow call, longtime friends and former Texas Rangers, steal over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border and recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to Montana.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Lonesome 2008

Summary: Three weeks, six countries and one divorce? What was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime becomes a desperate quest for Douglas Petersen to save his marriage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV US

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

Summary: The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the Earth's surface, holds half of the world's water, and hides the deepest place on the planet. It is a place where huge and iconic, rare and dazzling creatures live, and where creatures yet to be discovered lurk. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program breaks the boundaries between land and sea to present the Pacific Ocean in a way never seen before.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIG

Summary: "Before the Menendez brothers, O.J. and Ted Bundy, Charles Manson's name loomed large in modern stories of murder and crime. Over 50 years have passed since Manson and his devoted followers committed their horrific acts, yet the public remains in the dark about the Manson family and their journey into the abyss. How has this legendary story, the stuff of sensational headlines, criminal culture,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

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