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Dance With Me

Call Number: DVD01229

Director/Distributor: Vanessa Williams; Chayanne.; Kris Kristofferson; Jane Krakowski; Beth Grant; Joan Plowright; Randa Haines; Mandalay Entertainment (Firm); Columbia Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment [distributor, 2007]

Notes: Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture, released by Columbia Pictures.
Formatted to fit the television screen.
Includes theatrical trailer and photo gallery.

Summary: Rafael, a young Cuban whose mother has just died, comes to the U.S. to meet his father, who runs a dance studio and is unaware of his paternal status. While dancers prepare for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas, it becomes clear that Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the studio’s best hope for the championship.

OCLC #: 40770794

Added: 3/23/15

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The Heiress

Call Number: DVD01228

Director/Distributor: William Wyler; Ruth Goetz; Augustus Goetz; Olivia De Havilland; Montgomery Clift; Ralph Richardson, Sir; Miriam Hopkins; Mona Freeman; Vanessa Brown; Selena Royle; William Hornbeck; Leo Tover; Aaron Copland; Henry James; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment [distributor, 2007]

Notes: From the play by Ruth & Augustus Goetz & the novel “Washington Square” by Henry James.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949.
Special features: introduction by “Turner Classic Movies” host and film historian Robert Osborne; theatrical trailer.

Summary: A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?

OCLC #: 80155105

Added: 3/23/15

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Indochine

Call Number: DVD01227

Director/Distributor: Erik Orsenna; Louis Gardel; Catherine Cohen, scénariste.; Régis Wargnier; Alain Belmondo; Gérard Crosnier; Eric Heumann; Jean Labadie; Catherine Deneuve; Vincent Perez; Dan Linh Pham; Jean Yanne; Dominique Blanc; Henri Marteau; Carlo Brandt; Gérard Lartigau; Hubert Saint-Macary; Andrzej Seweryn; Patrick Doyle; Jacques Bufnoir; François Catonné;Gabriella Pescucci; Pierre-Yves Gayraud; Geneviève Winding; Agnès Schwab; Paradis film (Firm); Generale d’Images (Firm); B.A.C. Films.; Orly Films.; Ciné 5 (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm); Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, ©2013

Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 1992.
Special features: Theatrical trailers for Orlando and Farinelli, Talent files on the director (Wargnier) and two cast members (Deneuve and Pérez), Production notes.

Summary: Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, Éliane’s past lover.

OCLC #: 43875401

Added: 3/23/15

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Hotel Rwanda

Call Number: DVD01226

Director/Distributor: Terry George; Don Cheadle; Sophie Okonedo; Joaquin Phoenix; Desmond Dube; David O’Hara; Andrea Guerra; Rupert Gregson-Williams; United Artists Corporation.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm); Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa.; Miracle Pictures (Firm : Los Angeles, Calif.); MGM Home Entertainment Inc.; Afro Celt Sound System (Musical group); et al

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, ©2013

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.
Special features: optional audio commentary with Terry George Paul Rusesabagina, with select commentary by Wyclef Jean; optional audio commentary of select scenes with Don Cheadle; A message for peace : making Hotel Rwanda / produced & directed by Greg Carson (28 min.); Return to Rwanda (15 min.) which follows Rusesabagina as he returns to his native land; theatrical trailer.

Summary: Based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a five-star-hotel manager who uses his wits and persuasion in striving to save more than 1,200 Tutsis and Hutus from being massacred by the Interahamwe militia during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.

OCLC #: 57673690

Added: 3/23/15

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Captain Phillips

Call Number: DVD01223

Director/Distributor: by Paul Greengrass; Billy Ray; Scott Rudin; Dana Brunetti; Michael De Luca; Gregory Goodman; Eli Bush; Kevin Spacey; Tom Hanks; Barkhad Abdi; Barkhad Abdirahman; Faysal Ahmed; Mahat M Ali; Michael Chernus; Corey Johnson; Max Martini; Chris Mulkey; Yul Vazquez; David Warshofsky; Catherine Keener; Barry Ackroyd; Paul Kirby; Christopher Rouse; Henry Jackman; Mark Bridges, (Costume designer); Richard Phillips; Stephan Talty; Columbia Pictures,; Trigger Street Productions,; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2014] ©2013

Notes: Based upon the book “A captain’s duty: Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea” by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.
Special features: Commentary with director Paul Greengrass; English commentary subtitles; Capturing Captain Phillips (in-depth behind-the-scenes featurettes on making the acclaimed film); Previews.

Summary: The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

OCLC #: 879330139

Added: 5/13/14

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Braveheart

Call Number: DVD01222

Director/Distributor: by Rod La Rocque; Lillian Rich; Tyrone Power; Cecil B DeMille; Alan Hale; Alpha Home Entertainment

Format: DVD

Language: English (Silent)

Publisher: Alpha Home Entertainment

Summary: Chief Standing Rock’s tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock’s son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.

OCLC #: N/A

Added: 5/13/14

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Blue Jasmine

Call Number: DVD01221

Director/Distributor: by Woody Allen; Alec Baldwin; Cate Blanchett; Louis C K; Bobby Cannavale; Andrew Dice Clay; Sally Hawkins; Peter Sarsgaard; Michael Stuhlbarg; Letty Aronson; Stephen Tenenbaum; Edward Walson; Javier Aguirresarobe; Alisa Lepselter; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm),; Perdido Productions,; Gravier Productions.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2014] ©2013

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.
Special features: notes from the red carpet; Blue Jasmine cast press conference; theatrical trailer; previews of other films.

Summary: A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn’t bringing money, peace, or love…

OCLC #: 865479415

Added: 5/13/14

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August: Osage County

Call Number: DVD01220

Director/Distributor: by John Wells; George Clooney; Grant Heslov; Jean Doumanian; Steve Traxler; Tracy Letts; Meryl Streep; Julia Roberts; Ewan McGregor; Chris Cooper; Abigail Breslin; Benedict Cumberbatch; Juliette Lewis; Margo Martindale; Dermot Mulroney; Julianne Nicholson; Sam Shepard; Misty Upham; Gustavo Santaolalla; Cindy Evans; Stephen Mirrione; David Gropman; Adriano Goldman; Weinstein Company,; Jean Doumanian Productions,; Smokehouse Pictures (Firm),; Battle Mountain Films,; Yucaipa Films,; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.,;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2014] ©2013

Notes: Based on the play by Tracy Letts.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.
Special features: feature and deleted scenes commentary with director John Wells and cinematographer Adriano Goldman ; The making of August: Osage County ; featurette on writing with Tracy Letts.

Summary: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

OCLC #: 871458734

Added: 5/13/14

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Anna Karenina

Call Number: DVD01219

Director/Distributor: by Joe Wright; Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner; Paul Webster; Tom Stoppard; Liza Chasin; Keira Knightley; Jude Law; Aaron Johnson; Kelly MacDonald; Matthew Macfadyen; Domhnall Gleeson; Ruth Wilson; Alicia Vikander; Olivia Williams; Emily Watson; Seamus McGarvey; Sarah Greenwood; Melanie Oliver; Jacqueline Durran; Dario Marianelli; Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; Leo Tolstoy, graf; Focus Features,; Working Title Films,; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment [distributor], ©2013

Notes: Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2012.
Bonus: Deleted scenes: Oblonsky begs Dolly to “think of the children” ; Levin at the bath house with Serafina ; The Mazurka ; Cleopatra dancers/Makhotin teases Vronsky about Anna ; The clown ; Levin has wedding nerves/Kitty tells Levin she does love him ; Karenin is visited by the shopkeeper and Lydia ; Anna in the hotel at night (before the station). — Anna Karenina : an epic story about love — Adapting Tolstoy — Keira as Anna — On set with director Joe Wright — Dressing Anna — Anna Karenina : time-lapse photography — Feature commentary with director Joe Wright.

Summary: In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.

OCLC #: 823306006

Added: 5/13/14

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American Hustle

Call Number: DVD01218

Director/Distributor: by David O Russell; Eric Warren Singer; Charles Roven; Richard Suckle; Megan Ellison; Jonathan Gordon; Christian Bale; Bradley Cooper; Amy Adams; Jeremy Renner; Jennifer Lawrence; Louis C K; Michael Peña; Alessandro Nivola; Danny Elfman; Michael Wilkinson; Jay Cassidy; Crispin Struthers; Alan Baumgarten; Judy Becker; Linus Sandgren; Columbia Pictures,; Annapurna Pictures,; Atlas Entertainment (Firm),; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2014] ©2013

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.
Special features: The making of American Hustle; Deleted & extended scenes.

Summary: A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

OCLC #: 869837050

Added: 5/13/14

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12 Years a Slave

Call Number: DVD01217

Director/Distributor: by Steve McQueen; John Ridley; Brad Pitt; Dede Gardner; Jeremy Kleiner; William Pohlad; Arnon Milchan; Anthony Katagas; Tessa Ross; Chiwetel Ejiofor; Michael Fassbender; Benedict Cumberbatch; Paul Dano; Garret Dillahunt; Paul Giamatti; Scoot McNairy; Lupita Nyong’o; Adepero Oduye; Sarah Paulson; Michael Kenneth Williams; Alfre Woodard; Chris Chalk; Sean Bobbitt; Adam Stockhausen; Joe Walker; Patricia Norris; Hans Zimmer; Solomon Northup; Fox Searchlight Pictures,; Regency Enterprises,; River Road Entertainment (Firm),; Plan B (Firm),; New Regency (Firm),; FilmFour (Firm),; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly Hills, California : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2014] ©2014

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.
Based on the book Twelve years a slave by Solomon Northup.
Extras: The team; The score; Sneak peek.

Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

OCLC #: 869567122

Added: 5/13/14

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50 Movies: The Sensational Sixties

Call Number: DVD01216

Director/Distributor: by Mill Creek Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Mill Creek Entertainment, 2012.

Notes: Booklet lists movie title contained on each disc.

Films:

Disc 1: Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
Sword of Lancelot (1963)
High School Big Shot (aka: Date Bait) (1960)
Jackals (1967)
Disc 2: Constantine and the Cross (1962)
Wild Ride (1960)
When the Girls Take Over (1962)
Avenger (aka: Last Glory of Troy) (1962)
Disc 3: Battle of El Alamen (1960)
Cape Town Affair (1967)
Manster (1962)
She Beast (1966)
Disc 4: Five Minutes to Live (aka: Door-to-Door Maniac) (1961)
Esther and the King (1960)
Sadist (1963)
Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)
Disc 5: They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Deadly Companions (1961)
Dangerous Charter (1962)
Desert Commandos (1967)
Disc 6: Shoot out at Big Sag (1962)
Alexander the Great (1968)
Sandy the Seal (1969)
Fat Spy (1965)
Magic Sword (1962)
Disc 7: Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969)
Wake Me When the War is Over (1969)
From Hell to Borneo (1967)
Guerillas in Pink Lace (1964)
Disc 8: Poppy is also a Flower (1966)
Sound of Horror (1964)
White Comanche (1968)
High School Caesar (1960)
Disc 9: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Magic Serpent (1966)
David and Goliath (1960)
Nasty Rabbit (1963)
Disc 10: Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969)
Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
Twisted Nerve (1969)
Criminal Affair (1968)
Disc 11: Herod the Great (1960)
Reluctant Saint (1962)
Two women (1960)
Head of the Family (1967)
Disc 12: Dungeon of Harrow (1962)
Devil’s Partner (1961)
Choppers (1961)
Night Tide (1961)
Lightning Bolt (1966)

OCLC #: 817572108

Added: 5/13/14

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The Nifty Fifties

Call Number: DVD01215

Director/Distributor:by Mill Creek Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [Golden Valley, Minn.] : Mill Creek Entertainment, 2012.

Notes: Booklet lists movie title contained on each disc.

Summary:

Disc 1: Last Time I saw Paris (1954)
My Outlaw Brother (1951)
Three Husbands (1951)
St. Benny the Dip (1951)
Disc 2: Snows of Kiliminjaro (1952)
Lady Says No (1952)
Man who Cheated Himself (1950)
Bigamist (1953)
Disc 3: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955)
Martin Luther (1953)
Africa Screams (1950)
White Orchid (1954)

Disc 4: Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Mark of the Hawk (1958)
Limping Man (1953)
Disc 5: Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952)
Beneath the 12-mile Reef (1953)
Behave Yourself (1951)
Love Island (1952)
Disc 6: Night America Trembled (1957)
Never Wave at a WAC (1952)
Plan for Escape (1952)
Home Town Story (1951)
Affair in Monte Carlo (1952)
Disc 7: Indiscretion of an American Wife (1951)
Capture (1950)
Lay that Rifle Down (1955)
Disc 8: Life and Loves of Mozart (1955)
Painted Hills (1951)
Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)
Disc 9: Angel with the Trumpet (1950)
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Hoodlum (1951)
Life at Stake (1954)
Disc 10: Admiral was a Lady (1950)
Borderline (1950)
Manfish (1956)
Chained for Life (1951)
Disc 11: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1952)
Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Lilli Marlene (1951)
Captain Scarface (1953)
Disc 12: Trial of John Peter Zenger (1953)
Conquest of Everest (1953)
Tale of Two Cities (1953)
Road to Bali (1952)
Bolt of Lightning (1951)

OCLC #: 817572024

Added: 5/13/14

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Zero Dark Thirty

Call Number: DVD01212

Director/Distributor: by Kathryn Bigelow; Mark Boal; Megan Ellison; Greg Shapiro; Colin Wilson; Theodore Schipper; Jessica Chastain; Jason Clarke; Joel Edgerton; Jennifer Ehle; Mark Strong; Kyle Chandler; Édgar Ramírez; James Gandolfini; Chris Pratt; Callan Mulvey; Fares Fares; Reda Kateb; Harold Perrineau; Stephen Dillane; Nash Edgerton; Mike Colter; Frank Grillo; Greig Fraser; Jeremy Hindle; Dylan Tichenor; William Goldenberg; George Little; Alexandre Desplat; Columbia Pictures,; Annapurna Productions,; First Light Films,; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ©2013.

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture and released in 2012.

Special Features: No Small Feat – Making Zero Dark Thirty; The Compund – Tour the film’s rebuilt compound; Geared Up – Watch the cast train with authentic SEAL gear; Targeting Jessica Chastain – A look at the role of Maya

Summary: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011.

OCLC #: 827611653

Added: 5/13/14

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The Wolf of Wall Street

Call Number: DVD01209

Director/Distributor: by Martin Scorsese; Terence Winter; Leonardo DiCaprio; Riza Aziz; Joey McFarland; Emma Tillinger Koskoff; Georgia Kacandes; Alexandra Milchan; Rick Yorn; Irwin Winkler; Danny Dimbort; Joel Gotler; Jonah Hill; Margot Robbie; Matthew McConaughey; Kyle Chandler; Rob Reiner; Jon Bernthal; Jon Favreau; Jean Dujardin; Joanna Lumley; Cristin Milioti; Christine Ebersole; Shea Whigham; Katarina Cas; P J Byrne; Kenneth Choi; Brian Sacca; Henry Zebrowski; Ethan Suplee; Rodrigo Prieto; Bob Shaw; Thelma Schoonmaker; Sandy Powell; Jordan Belfort; Paramount Pictures Corporation,; Red Granite Pictures,; Appian Way (Firm),; Sikelia Productions,; EMJAG Productions,;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Hollywood, California : Paramount Pictures, [2014] ©2013

Notes: Based on the book by Jordan Belfort.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.

Summary: Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

OCLC #: 870910116

Added: 5/13/14

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William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet

Call Number: DVD01206

Director/Distributor: by Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce; Gabriella Martinelli; Leonardo DiCaprio; Claire Danes; Jesse Bradford; Vondie Curtis-Hall; Brian Dennehy; John Leguizamo; Miriam Margolyes; Harold Perrineau; Christina Pickles; Pete Postlethwaite; Paul Rudd; Paul Sorvino; Diane Venora; M Emmet Walsh; William Shakespeare; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Bazmark Films (Firm); Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©2002.

Notes: Based on the play by William Shakespeare.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996.
Special features: Commentary with Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Craig Pearce, and Don McAlpine ; Director’s gallery featurettes: Impact (4 min.); Why Shakespeare? (3 min.); Pitching Shakespeare (10 min.); The gas station (7 min.); The pool scene (5 min.); Tybalt’s execution (4 min.). Cinematographer’s gallery featurettes: A hole in the wall, One light, Operator, The Fishtank, The elevator, The church (6 min.); Design gallery slide shows: The books (5 min.); Guns of Verona Beach (1 min.); Cars of Verona Beach (1 min.); Production design (11 min.); Fashion of Verona Beach (3 min.); Branding of Verona Beach (1 min.); Interview gallery featurettes: Co-writer (2 min.); Editor (2 min.); Choreographer (2 min.); Costume designer (2 min.); Leonardo DiCaprio (2 min.); Claire Danes (2 min.); John Leguizamo (2 min.); Music clips (8 min.); Marketing R+J (4 min.); DVD-ROM feature Script to screen [requires a DVD-ROM drive].

Summary: Shakespeare’s famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.

OCLC #: 678683069

Added: 5/13/14

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