Jake Eberts
1) City of joy
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An American doctor, a British nurse and an illiterate Indian farmer join together to transform a Calcutta ghetto when it is threatened by the brutal local "godfather."
2) Open range
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses...
3) Black Robe
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the rugged 17th century Canadian wilderness, Father Laforgue, a young and idealistic Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the wilderness on a perilous journey to convert the Huron Indians. His Algonquin Indian quides nickname him "Black Robe." His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the beautiful daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested...
Author
Description
James Cromwell (Babe) stars in this heartwarming adaptation of the acclaimed best-seller about an eight-year-old Cherokee boy in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains during the 1930s. That boy is Little Tree (Joseph Ashton), sent to live with his mountain-dwelling grandparents after the loss of his mother and father. It's the beginning of a new life for Little Tree, filled with joy, discovery, setbacks, triumphs and good friends like mystical Cherokee seer...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 7 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The protagonist of this metaphysical fable is Rannulph Junah, Southern aristocrat and World War I hero. In a tournament in Savannah, he defeats two golf pros by following the teachings of his guru, Bagger Vance, a black mystic serving as his caddie.
6) Grey Owl
Author
Description
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.