Film and Video Collections
This Week's Theme
Each week, we feature items from our collections which correspond to a theme chosen by our staff!
The library will be closed from Thursday, December 23- Monday, January 3rd. We'll be celebrating the winter weather, and hope you will be too!
Winter Weather on Streaming
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Frank Capra's classic stars Oscar nominee James Stewart as George Bailey, a decent small-town banker who learns what life would have been like if he'd never been born after he unwittingly becomes involved in a mistaken case of bank fraud, which threatens his spirit and tests his will to live until a wise angel compels him to see how his presence has made an incredible impact on the people of Bedford Falls.
Fargo (1996)
The Coen brothers' sly drama about a policewoman who's trying to determine how several murders and a kidnapping are linked to an unassuming car salesman.
The Thing (1982)
Americans at a base in Antarctica are terrorized by an otherworldly creature that can shapeshift into the form of anything it kills.
Winter Weather on DVD
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Winter Light by
Publication Date: 1962In this stark depiction of spiritual crisis, small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation. When he is asked to assist a troubled parishioner with his debilitating fear of nuclear annihilation, Tomas is terrified to find that he can offer nothing but his own uncertainty -
Ice Age by
Publication Date: 2002Four animals trying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age become unlikely heroes. The four reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements. -
Dr. Zhivago by
Publication Date: 1965Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism. -
Chasing Ice by
Publication Date: 2012Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years. -
Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season by
Publication Date: 2011Set in a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime. From the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the frozen north and ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious darkness beyond, the powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms are locked in a battle for the Iron Throne. This is a story of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honor, conquest, and triumph. In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die. -
Encounters at the End of the World by
Publication Date: 2007Filmmaker Werner Herzog examines life in Antarctica, focusing especially on the stories of the "professional dreamers" who reside there. -
Edward Scissorhands by
Publication Date: 1990Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.