Movies & More

Sometimes even a librarian gets tired of reading. If, after six weeks of relentless winter, you are restless and ready for some other form of indoor entertainment, visit the library anyway. We have at least 1500 dvds just waiting to go home with you.
If you already have a library card, and have had it for at least three months, you are eligible to checkout up to fifteen items at a time. We don’t care if you have fourteen books and one dvd or 11 dvds, one audio book and three printed books. For the first three months of your first library card, you are on probation. You will be allowed four items at a time, only one of which may be a dvd. If you can remain reliable and responsible for the first three months, we figure we can trust you forevermore. Unless you prove us wrong.
Sarah chooses the children’s dvds. It seems to me that we have almost anything a kid could ever want to see. Demi chooses our adult and teen feature films. She’s the one staff member who sees enough movies to form an opinion. I get all the fantasy and made-up-stuff I can handle in the books I read. When I watch a movie, I want it to be realistic and believable, so I select the documentary-type dvds.
Babies, a 2010 documentary dvd, follows the lives of four newborns in four corners of the globe through their first year of life.
Through a Dog’s Eyes, Canine Assistants is a Georgia organization that matches service dogs to the people who need them. This dvd follows a group of service dogs and their new owners through doggy “bootcamp.”
The Quake, Correspondent Martin Smith and his team arrived in Haiti within days of the quake. This report documents the disaster and the relief efforts in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.
No Tomorrow, Profiled in the film AGING OUT, Risa Bejarano was a foster care success story. Recently graduated, with many scholarships, she left for college. Then, she was brutally murdered.
Death By Fire, Did Texas execute an innocent man?
Echo, An Elephant to Remember; Echo’s life was followed through the PBS series, Nature. This beautifully photographed story documents the end of her life.
Baseball: The Tenth Inning, This four hour film chronicles the memorable and infamous personalities, teams, games and scandals of the last 20 years of professional baseball.
The Mosque in Morgantown, This film is not the story of a struggle between Christians and Muslims, but about the struggle within the Morgantown mosque for equality between the genders. Rather than being told by a narrator, this tale is told by the people involved.
The Wounded Platoon, This is a powerful portrait of what is happening to a generation of young American soldiers who are serving multiple tours of duty in war zones.
If you happen to prefer the other kind of movies, the kind that take you out of your winter misery, the ones in which glamorous, well dressed movie stars cavort across the screen whilst earning millions of dollars, we have those, too. But ask Demi for a recommendation. I haven’t seen them.