Channel Four (Great Britain)
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This revealing documentary includes Ginsberg's last television interview, extraordinary footage of his final days, and interviews with his family, fellow poets Patti Smith, Paul McCartney, and Philip Glass, and his lifelong partner Peter Orlovsky.
2) The snowman
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 27 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Weaves a spell of magical winter enchantment as a young boy's snowman comes to life and escorts him on a visit to the North Pole.
4) Shackleton
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ernest Shackleton put out an ad requesting: Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success. The 27 men who joined his expedition found that Shackleton was true to his word. This is the true story of their extraordinary ordeal, and the death-defying, 800-mile journey in an open boat across the world₂s worst seas that made...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 241 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A two-part documentary that explores the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James "Jimmy" Safechuck, at age ten, and Wade Robson, at age seven, both of whom were befriended by Michael Jackson. They and their families were invited into his wondrous world, entranced by the singer's fairy-tale existence as his career reached its peak. Through gut-wrenching interviews with Safechuck, now 37, and Robson, now 41, as well as their mothers,...
6) Wyrd sisters
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.): sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sci-fi fantasy tale of sorcery and spells, witches and warts, and a fool who's smarter than he looks.
8) Southcliffe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Exactly a year after he reported on a killing spree in the town of his unhappy childhood. English journalist David Whitehead returns to the scene of the crime in response to an anonymous message. Someone warns that the killing is about to begin again. Is tragedy somehow woven into the fabric of the town? Will the people closest to last year₂s victims ever find ways to heal their broken lives?
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young at Heart Chorus is based in Northampton, Massachusetts. See the final weeks of rehearsal for the group, whose average age is 81 and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music is unexpected, going against the stereotype of their age group, performing songs that range from James Brown to Coldplay. The group has toured Europe and sung for royalty. Now they are focusing on preparing new songs, not an easy endeavor,...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A four part series that explores the reproductive behaviors of the animal kingdom. Focusing on four species, elephant, dolphin, kangaroo and orangutan, the series takes an in-depth look at how these animals find, fight for, and woo the opposite sex. It also explores how they mate, give birth, and raise their young in extreme environments.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mining operation in Colombia opened a window into an unknown period of the Earth's history where a world with giant creatures emerged. The biggest of them all was Titanoboa, a 43-foot snake, the largest that ever lived. New discoveries suggest that Titanoboa's rule was challenged by a giant crocodilian. Experiments reveal unmatched hunting prowess. So which one was the apex predator 58 million years ago?
14) Frontier House
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three modern families were chosen to learn to survive as if the year is 1883. Using the tools and technology of that time they must make difficult choices and cope with the consequences in the Montana wilderness.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Chronicles the efforts by a Canadian team to salvage the recently discovered Erberus, lost during the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition, whose mission was to chart the Northwest Passage. Sheds new light on the expedition's demise.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (10 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, this epic drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 70 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Animated sequel to the Christmas classic from Raymond Briggs. A young boy discovers a hidden box under the floorboards of his bedroom. Inside the box are a variety of items which he uses to make a Snowman and, using some leftover snow, a Snowdog. When his frozen creations magically come to life at the stroke of midnight, he joins them on an amazing arial adventure over London and onwards to the North Pole.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (6 pages, fold-out)
Description
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to the very heart of all human behavior.
20) King Lear
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.