Virgil Films.
1) NOAH
Author
Description
With a catastrophic storm on its way, one man is given a monumental task: build a boat big enough to save mankind from a flood that will cover the entire earth. But they won't be alone. Filmed in front of a live audience, NOAH takes you on board one of the world's best-known voyages as live animals fill the stage and aisles. Set sail inside the enormous ark in this extraordinary Bible story that has captivated audiences for generations!
2) Bible idiots
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet Chris Danielson. Even though he has a lot of experience with film and video technology he had never made a full-length movie before. Chris is a national syndicated radio show host, author, father of four grown children and a seminary trained Bible teacher and a standup comic. His wife Emilee is an accomplished writer and radio host as well, and she put pen to paper to help execute the vision God gave Chris.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The untold story of Vincenzo Peruggia, the Italian immigrant who committed the greatest little-known art theft in history. For more than 30 years, writer/director Joe Medeiros was obsessed with finding out Peruggia's true motive. So with the help of researchers, art experts and Celestina Peruggia's children Silvio and Graziella, Medeiros and his team embarked on an epic journey leading them to the Louvre, to Peruggia's hiding place in Paris, to Florence....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmmakers Sarah and Greg set out to critically explore American culture, compassion, and fear by relying on the kindness of strangers for a home each night. Traveling through 30 states in 60 days, they spend every day in a new town, learning why people may or may not be willing to open their homes. At times funny, heartbreaking, and inspirational, these individual stories reflect the daily choices we make to trust, to confide, to care for, and to...
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is a documentary film that offers dramatic, personal portraits of the men and women who represent varying faith traditions, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, etc., and the wide array of professional environments where they serve. Chaplains are called upon to minister both to people of similar faith and those whose religious beliefs may be very different from their own.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1978, three months after the death of comedy icon Charlie Chaplin, his body disappeared from its grave in Corsier-Sur-Vevefy, Switzerland. Examining Magistrate Jean-Daniel Tenthorey and the Swiss Police had no clues to follow, only ridiculous rumors. It would be quite some time before the robbers would eventually contact the family asking for a half million Swiss Francs. After being denied by the family, the robbers would lower the amount a number...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Winona LaDuke focuses on Enbridge's pipelines for fracked oil, its dangers and how the shale oil boom is adversely affecting Indian Country. She gathers musicians, young people and native leadership, puts them on horses, organizes in northern Minnesota lake communities and creates a movement.
8) Brave girls
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In one of the oldest towns in India, a group of young women are rewriting tradition. The day before her final exam, Apsana runs from her arranged marriage so that she can continue going to school. Samira wants to marry for love, but chooses to listen to her parents. Two months later, her friend, Karishma disappears with her childhood sweetheart. The film follows their journey for self-determination and love.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1984, before cell phones, the web, and reality TV, a young filmmaker set out to document a year in the life of a typical California high school. Told through the eyes of a visiting exchange student, the film presents an uncensored view of senior year in the era of big hair, punks, and parachute pants. Thirty years after they lived it, the film's original subjects return to look back at one of the most memorable chapters of their lives.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary that follows four different zookeepers at the Mepmphis zoo and takes viewers behind the scenes, into zoo areas that are forbidden to the general public. In addition to learning more about these fascinating people, viewers will meet the big cats, giraffes, penguins, snakes, and Komodo dragons up close, on the other side of the zoo exhibits.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A celebration of the singer-songwriter's life and career from 1960s in New York to the music mecca of the 70s in Los Angeles to the present. Carole King joins collaborators and family in new interviews, while rare home movies, performances, and photos complete the tapestry.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Walk in the shoes of an unlikely messenger who touched the world. Rare historical footage and compelling interviews with family members, lifelong friends, former presidents, and prominent broadcasters tell the remarkable story of Billy Graham.
13) We are Columbine
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Highlights the stories of four students who were freshmen at the time of the shooting. Director Laura Farber was also a freshman at Columbine at the same time. She captures their perspectives during a walk-through of the school.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color, with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the musical Carter and Cash families, the dynasty at the heart of country music. Starting with the Original Carter Family, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, this film traces the flow of their influence through generations of musicians, the transformation of that act into the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, the marriage of Johnny Cash and June Carter, and the efforts of the present-day family to keep this musical legacy alive. Featuring Johnny...
15) Buffalo girls
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Watch an unflinching look at Thailand's underground world of child boxers, of which there are over 30,000 girls. The film tells the story of two eight-year-old girls who are professional Muay Thai prizefighters.
16) High ground
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleven wounded U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, each, dealing with different issues and looking to move on with their lives. They join an expedition to climb the 20,000 foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. Led by blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Mt. Everest summiteers as their guides, they set out on an emotional and gripping climb to reach the top and heal the emotional and physical wounds of the longest war in U.S....
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film examines the claim that most if not all degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. It traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Although they didn't know each other, their individual research led to startlingly similar conclusions: degenerative diseases could usually be prevented--and in...
18) Desert flower
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by the life of Waris Dirie, including how she escaped from an arranged marriage at the age of thirteen and embarked upon a two-hundred-mile journey across the desert of Somalia in an adventure that eventually led her into a modeling career.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, starting in 2007. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats.
20) Serving life
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. It documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for their dying fellow inmates. In doing so, they embark on a journey that may end in personal rehabilitation.