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Suggested searches: keywords from titles; actor or director names; film's country of origin. This search includes documentary and how-to films for all ages.

Browse our 2009 & 2010 entertainment DVD titles.

Browse our entire entertainment DVD collection. 

MCPL offers a wide selection of feature films and informational videos on DVD and VHS for all ages. All VHS titles, all informational DVDs, and all children’s media may be borrowed for three weeks and may be renewed. Feature films on DVD may be checked out for one week with no renewals. Many VHS and DVD titles in the collection offer closed captioning (CC).

The library purchases many copies of each popular DVD title. Some copies of every title will be filling customer holds, but for the first 90 days a DVD title is owned, most will be non-holdable copies, available to browsers. Instead of moving around the county in delivery trucks and awaiting pick-up on hold shelves, the non-holdable copies are in constant use. After 90 days in the system, all copies will begin to fill customer holds.

You may have 10 entertainment DVD's checked out on your card at one time.

VideoHound offers over 28,000 movie reviews and ratings from "4 Bones" (pick of the litter) to "WOOF!" (baddest of the bad). VideoHound is known for its Category and Series indexes and lists , that let you find movies with specific themes, subjects, locations, settings, or even more esoteric stuff, such as "Nuns with Guns," "Exploding Fish Tanks," and "Alien Cops," to name a few. Have fun!

These respected reference sources can be read in full-text free online.  If you are outside our library buildings, you will have to enter an MCPL library card number to gain access.

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film.  New York: Schirmer Reference, 2007.

History of the American Cinema in 10 volumes.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons

The Emergence of the Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (Vol. 1, 1990)

The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 (Vol. 2, 1991)

An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 (Vol. 3, 1991)

The Talkies: U.S. Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 (Vol. 4, 1998)

Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 (Vol. 5, 1993)

Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940's (Vol. 6, 1998)

The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959 (Vol. 7, 2003)

The Sixties: 1960-1969 (Vol. 8, 2001)

Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 (Vol. 9, 2000)

A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electric Rainbow, 1980-1989 (Vol. 10, 2000)