Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., ©2001.

Notes:  Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962.
Based on the play of the same name by William Gibson.
“MGM DVD.”
Includes original theatrical trailer.

Summary: A dramatization of the story about the struggle of a Boston teacher, Annie Sullivan, to communicate with and teach the deaf, blind, and mute child, Helen Keller.

OCLC #: 46403952

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2004]

Notes:  Based on the novel: Mystic River / by Dennis Lehane.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003.
“Enhanced for widescreen TVs”–Container.

Summary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed convict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy’s old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quiet life, but harbors some disturbing secrets of his own.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [Atlanta, GA] : Turner Home Entertainment, Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2004] [2004] ©2004

Notes:  Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
Re-released as part of the Film Noir Classic Collection.
Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March.
Special features: Commentary by Robert Wise and Martin Scorsese.

Summary: A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict’s missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [Atlanta, GA] : Turner Home Entertainment, Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, [2004] [2004] ©2004

Notes:  Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
Re-released as part of the Film Noir Classic Collection.
Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March.
Special features: Commentary by Robert Wise and Martin Scorsese.

Summary: An over-the-hill boxer thinks he can still win a bout, despite doubts from his wife and his manager. He goes into his next fight determined to beat his opponent, not realizing his manager has taken money for a ‘dive’ from a tough gambler. Heightening the tension, the film takes place over the course of 72 minutes, its approximate running time.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Cailf. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]

Notes:  Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.
Also issued in box set Studio Classics.
Special features: Commentary by film historians Patricia King Hanson & Frank Thompson; a conversation with director Henry King; “The old men and the bulls : the making of The sun also rises;” Hemingway on film; restoration comparison; trailer; still gallery.

Summary: A group of Americans that have become friends because of the war, spend their time in Europe in 1922, still living as if every day was their last.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [New York, NY] : A & E Television Networks, [2008]

Notes:  Documentary.
Title from container.
Originally broadcast on the Biography television program.
Set contains all 22 programs from the series.

Summary: Ted was born into a family of great wealth and privilege. After the untimely and tragic deaths of his three older brothers, Ted inherited the weight of his father’s political ambitions, and served as surrogate father to the 13 children of his slain brothers. Early scandals and public displays of womanizing and drunkenness are contrasted with his stellar marks as U.S. Senator. The life and career of Teddy Kennedy is revealed through his close friends, family members, political colleagues, and opponents.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [Thousand Oaks, Calif.] : Monterey Media, [2004], ©1983.

Notes:  Originally broadcast in 1983.
Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf.
Special features: about the cast ; about the author ; about the novel ; discussion topics.

Summary: As a wave casually laps onto the Cornwall beach, the Ramsay family and friends settle in for an enjoyable warm Edwardian summer. Presided over by the gentle power and irresistible charisma of their mother, their story evolves with the textures, romance and conflicting dreams that draw a family together and simultaneously pull it apart.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: New York : Columbia TriStar Home Video : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009]

Notes:  Based on the rock opera Tommy by Pete Townshend.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Features include original quintaphonic mix, talent files, audio restoration essay.

Summary: A rock opera about a boy who is traumatized by the murder of his father. He is “cured” several years later, only to be hailed as a “Messiah.”

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal, ©2000.

Notes:  Title from videocassette label.
Videocassette release of the 1969 motion picture by Universal Pictures.
“Includes 17 minutes of extra footage”–Container. 11058 OLOLUC.
“This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit your TV”–Container.

Summary: American CIA agent learns of Cuban missiles and a NATO spy by the code name of TOPAZ from a defecting Russian

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Entertainment, [2004]

Notes:  Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1985.
Special features: “Director’s introduction”, a behind-the-scenes look at writing ‘Wetherby’ from writer/director David Hare; actor’s selected filmographies & biographies; essays by author and critic Brian McFarlane.

Summary: Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean’s friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, ©2007.

Notes:  Originally broadcast on television 1966-1967

Summary: The wild, wild West takes you on death-defying, top secret assignments alongside the country’s best secret agents, under direct orders to protect the security of President Grant and the U.S. from all manner of threats

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2014] [2014] ©2014

Notes:  Title from container.
Based on the book by Mark Helprin.
Special feature: Behind the scenes: Winter’s tale: a timeless love– Journey with the cast as they bring this story from book to screen.

Summary: Set in a mythic New York City and spanning more than a century, follow a story of miracles, crossed destinies, and the age-old battle between good and evil. A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [New York, NY] : A & E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video, [2009]

Notes:  Documentary.
Title from container.
First mothers is based on the book by Time Magazine correspondent Bonnie Angelo.

Summary: All the presidents’ wives: An in-depth look at America’s First Ladies – from Martha Washington to Mary Todd Lincoln to Eleanor Roosevelt to Jacqueline Kennedy to Hillary Clinton. Each segment offers an engaging portrait of the woman. These women have held one of the most enigmatic, yet high-profile, jobs in the country.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [S.l. : s.n., 199-?]

Notes:  Originally released as a motion picture in 1918, by UFA Production, Germany..
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.

Summary: The story is set in pre-Revolution Russia, where Jewess Anna Mirrel bears the brunt of the Czar’s oppression of her people. Desperately seeking a passport so that she may escape to America, Anna is callously issued a “yellow ticket,” falsely designating her as a prostitute. She manages to overcome this government-imposed stigma with the aid of American journalist Julian Rolfe. Yellow Ticket was memorably remade in 1931, with Elissa Landi and a very young Laurence Olivier in the leading roles.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.

Notes:  Based on the story by Carlos Olivari and Sixto Pondal Rios.
DVD release of the 1942 motion picture.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.

Summary: The Acunas family is a family of tradition. The family holds the ritual of making sure that their daughters get married in order of age. When the second daughter does not follow the tradition quick enough her sister resort to finding her a lover.

OCLC #: 55491925

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Turner Home Entertainment, Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, [2004] [2004] ©2004

Notes:  Originally produced as a motion picture in 1947.
Re-released as part of the Film Noir Classic Collection.
Based on the novel “Build my gallows high” by Geoffrey Homes (Daniel Mainwaring).
Special features: Commentary by author/film-noir specialist James Ursini.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.

Summary: Former private detective Jeff Bailey is trying to lead a quiet life, but his past comes back to haunt him and he finds himself framed for murder.

OCLC #: 55733903

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, [2003]

Notes:  Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002 and based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins.
Special features: deleted scenes; HBO’s “making of” documentary; audio commentary with Sam Mendes and subtitled commentary in English, French or Spanish ; cast and filmakers biographies ; production notes; photo gallery.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.

Summary: Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan’s son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father’s killings on Rooney’s behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.

OCLC #: 51307505

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2015]

Summary: During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of “gross indecency,” an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality – little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, he was credited with cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany’s World War II Enigma machine. An intense and haunting portrayal of a brilliant, complicated man, “The Imitation Game” a genius who under nail-biting pressure helped to shorten the war and, in turn, save thousands of lives

OCLC #: 903224388

Format: DVD

Language: French

Publisher: Beverly Hills, California : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2015]

Notes:  Based on the book by Cheryl Strayed.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.
Bonus features: Theatrical feature; The real Cheryl Strayed; Behind-the-scenes featurettes; audio commentary; Experiencing the Pacific Crest Trail: a special message from Cheryl Strayed; gallery.

Summary: After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.

OCLC #: 903224310