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New DVDs and Blu-Rays May 2026 Click on the title to place a hold on the item |
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Avatar: Fire & Ash
Jake and Neytiri's family grapples with grief, encountering a new, aggressive Na'vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges.
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Goat
A small goat with big dreams gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball, a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world.
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Wuthering Heights (2026)
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.
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Elisa's Day
When a woman is arrested for drug trafficking, a police officer recalls an arrest he made 15 years earlier of her mother. Tracing his own path in the force with their plight, he works against the system, attempting to change the course of the future.
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The Forbidden City
Two very different souls intersect on the streets of Rome when the Italian son of a restaurant owner and a young Chinese girl join forces to search for their missing family members, his father and her sister. As romance sparks between them, they uncover the tragic truths linking their families to the city's criminal underworld and seek vengeance against the ruthless gangsters behind it all before they can start a new life together.
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Masaaki Yuasa: Five Films
Widely regarded as one of the most imaginative and influential filmmakers working in animation, Masaaki Yuasa's energetic style has been compared to Tex Avery and Max Fleischer. He is one of contemporary anime's most prolific auteurs and has lent his humor and dynamism to genres as diverse as psychedelic thrillers, transcendent rock operas, and sweetly subversive teen romances. This set includes Masaaki Yuasa's five celebrated feature films; Mind Game (2004); The Night is Short, Walk on Girl (2017); Lu Over the Wall (2017); Ride Your Wave (2019); and Inu-Oh (2021) along with a host of never-before-seen bonus features.
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Sentimental Value
After the death of their mother, two sisters must contend with the return home to Norway of their estranged father, celebrated filmmaker Gustav Borg. In the case of Nora, an actor, he hopes to reconnect by casting her in his new film, a project that both inflicts fresh wounds and reopens old ones.
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Smother
After the sudden death of her estranged father, Michi, a young mother struggling to stay sober, returns with her eight-year-old daughter to the remote summer house where she grew up. Cut off from the outside world, Michi becomes haunted by long-suppressed memories of her mother's death, resurfacing through disturbing dreams and waking visions that emanate from the darkest shadows of the home.
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Fallout: Season Two
In a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants, and bandits.
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Masterpiece: The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantès, a young sailor, is falsely accused of treason and imprisoned in the Château d'If. After escaping and finding a hidden treasure, he reinvents himself as the wealthy and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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Year of the Rabbit
Detective Inspector Rabbit, a dedicated, tough, thick, and oft-inebriated Victorian copper, sleuths his way across London with his two young partners: a doofy rookie and a brilliant Black policewoman no one ever believes.
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A Business Proposal
In disguise as her friend, Ha-ri shows up to a blind date to scare him away. But plans go awry when he turns out to be her CEO - and makes a proposal.
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Mercy for None
After severing ties with his gang, a former gangster returns to uncover the truth behind his brother's death, embarking on a relentless path of revenge.
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Study Group
Yun Ga Min, a student at the struggling Yusung Technical High School, is determined to go to college despite his poor grades and knack for fighting. He forms a study group but is forced to use his fighting skills to protect his friends from bullies. His teacher, Lee Han Gyeong, who tutored him while he was a university student, returns as a temporary teacher with a secret and hopes to improve the school.
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Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938
An unexpected case propels gumiho Lee Yeon back to 1938, where he reunites with Ryu Hong Joo, a former guardian spirit now running a high-end restaurant in Gyeongseong, and encounters his younger brother, Lee Rang. Amid old friendships turned hostile, including the dangerous Cheon Moo Young, Lee Yeon must navigate the past's perils and unravel its mysteries to find a way back to the present and to the ones he loves.
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Fackham Hall
A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.
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Highest 2 Lowest
When music industry titan David King is targeted by a ransom plot that spins out of control, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma that thrusts him from the heights of success down into the mean streets of New York City.
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Mercy
In the near future, a detective stands trial, accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.
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Send Help
A woman and her overbearing boss become stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash. They must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
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Shelter
On a remote coastal island, a reclusive man rescues a young girl from a deadly storm, drawing them both into danger. Forced out of isolation, he must confront his turbulent past while protecting her, sending them on a tense journey of survival and redemption.
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Solo Mio
After being left at the altar in Rome, Matt goes on his honeymoon alone, discovering Italy's gorgeous landscape, culture, and people.
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Christy
The life and the incredible career of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the 1990s.
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Do I Love You Robot Do I
Explores the most human-like robots and advancements in technology that blur the line between cyborg and human.
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Masterpiece: The Great Escaper
The true story of Bernard Jordan, who made global headlines in the summer of 2014. He had staged a "great escape" from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades at the D-Day Landings 70th anniversary.
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Orwell: 2+2=5
An investigation into the life, work, and enduring influence of the writer George Orwell, connecting his ideas to the contemporary world.
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To Dye for
After discovering that their child has a life-altering sensitivity to synthetic dyes, parents and first-time filmmakers Brandon and Whitney Cawood are documenting their journey to unravel the impacts of synthetic dyes.
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Do Bugs Fart
Follow our host Morgane, a fun, entomologist and bug specialist on her thrilling journey as she ventures to the extremes of our planet, uncovering the hidden, astonishing, and surprisingly interconnected lives of insects!
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NASA Moments: The Stuff of Dreams
In 1977, the greatest adventure in space exploration began with the launch of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, two robotic explorers designed to explore the deep reaches of our solar system. The Voyagers were the creations of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where a brash young scientist had just been put in charge. His ambition was to take the next steps in exploring the solar system. Instead, he found himself struggling for JPL's very survival during financial cutbacks at the very same time as the Voyagers' triumphs of discoveries at Jupiter and Saturn.
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Social Studies Kids: Local Politics - Making a Difference in Your Community
Is there something in your community that needs fixing? Something unfair or dangerous to residents? This program helps kids understand the impact they can have by taking an active role in community decisions. Kids will also learn that early activism leads to sustained involvement in local politics and civic engagement throughout one's life.
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Strawberry Shortcake's Spring Spectacular
Strawberry thinks more popularity will help her baking dreams come true and decides to compete to win best float at the flower festival. Pumpkin Spice, not wanting to be outdone, teams up with the Purple Pieman to stop Strawberry from winning.
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Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go - Sights of Sodor
Thomas is back on track in another season of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! Deliveries will go awry, new areas will be explored, and animals will end up in places they shouldn't be while Thomas and his friends grow from these unexpected surprises.
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12 N. Elm St., Prospect Heights, Illinois 60070
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