Victor Garber
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Our ongoing quest to explore and come to terms with the Arctic is presented in the context of the crucial role that ice plays in the north. Ice is to the Arctic as trees are to the rainforest. It is the underpinning of the ecosystem, the foundation upon which the animals and plants of the north depend. In this documentary, viewers meet an ice scientist who lives and works with the Inuit, blending their traditional knowledge with modern scientific...
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The romance of two Americans in Paris, both staying at the Ritz hotel. He is Peter Haskell, 44, a pharmaceutical executive working on a cancer cure who is the father of three sons. She is Olivia Thatcher, 34, wife of a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions, and she is grieving for her son, dead from cancer.
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.
4) Sicario
Pub. Date
[2015]
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After an idealistic FBI agent is recruited by a government task-force official to pursue a drug lord, she begins a perilous mission that forces her to question everything she believes, and pits her against a shadowy consultant with a dangerous agenda.
5) Milk
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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His life changed history, his courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, becomes a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he is elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, are shot to death by former city supervisor,...
6) Argo
Pub. Date
2013
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
7) You again
Pub. Date
2011
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1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"For Marnie (Bell), high school was a horror movie, and her brother's wedding is the sequel when her archrival comes back to haunt her as his bride. It's nice girl versus mean girl in this hysterical reunion with the one person Marnie would really like to forget. And if that weren't enough, Marnie's mom (Curtis) reunites with her own high school nemesis (Weaver)"--Container.
8) Dark waters
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
9) Queen
Pub. Date
[2008]
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2 videodiscs (283 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will.
10) Tuck everlasting
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[2003], ©2002
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.
11) Rebel in the rye
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
12) Legally blonde
Pub. Date
c2001
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.
13) Kung fu panda 2
Pub. Date
c2011
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Po must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins in order to able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed....
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Nighty-Nightmare
Are Harold, Howie, and Chester simply lost in the woods with Dawg, their strange new friend? Or have they been lured away from their campsite intentionally, leaving the Monroes at the mercy of evil spirits? Lulling Dawg to sleep with a bedtime story may be their only hope of escaping–but is the hare-raising tale of the origins of Bunnicula, the vampire bunny, really a bedtime story?
Return to Howliday Inn
The...
Are Harold, Howie, and Chester simply lost in the woods with Dawg, their strange new friend? Or have they been lured away from their campsite intentionally, leaving the Monroes at the mercy of evil spirits? Lulling Dawg to sleep with a bedtime story may be their only hope of escaping–but is the hare-raising tale of the origins of Bunnicula, the vampire bunny, really a bedtime story?
Return to Howliday Inn
The...
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Pub. Date
2009
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Bunnicula Strikes Again!
It seems that Bunnicula, the vampire rabbit, is back to his old ways–or so Chester thinks, having found pale vegetables drained of their juices and scattered about the Monroe family kitchen. This time Chester decides to take matters into his own hands (or rather paws). Can Harold let Chester get away with hurting an innocent bunny, no matter what his harebrained suspicions are? When the Monroes notice Bunnicula’s...
It seems that Bunnicula, the vampire rabbit, is back to his old ways–or so Chester thinks, having found pale vegetables drained of their juices and scattered about the Monroe family kitchen. This time Chester decides to take matters into his own hands (or rather paws). Can Harold let Chester get away with hurting an innocent bunny, no matter what his harebrained suspicions are? When the Monroes notice Bunnicula’s...
16) Wish
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
17) Take Me Home
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Little does NYC cab driver Thom Colvin know that when an attractive lady hops into his cab and says take me to California, that their journey winding across America will become the adventure, and mis-adventure, of their lifetimes.
19) Funny Face
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The destruction of his grandparents' home leads a young man to take revenge under a masked persona
20) Consumed
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Set against the backdrop of the American heartland, a mother's investigation into her son's mysterious illness leads her into the controversial world of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).