Rachel Portman
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
No stones in slingshots. No skirmishes too late in the day. They're rules of war for the youngsters of two neighboring Irish villages. And here's another rule: if you spit-shake on something, you better follow through. Kids will be kids. But sometimes they, in their own fanciful ways, will be adults. It's a winning tale in which buttons are the spoils of a would-be war.
3) Grey Gardens
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world...
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect. When they discover that they're living two years apart, they try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The heartwarming 'tail' of a young girl whose life is changed by a scruffy, fun-loving pooch she names Winn-Dixie. The special bond between them works magic on her reserved dad and the eccentric townspeople they meet during one unforgettable summer.
8) The duchess
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt...
9) Beloved
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
10) Hart's war
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
11) Mona Lisa smile
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Centuries ago, two 'sworn sisters' are isolated by their families, but stay connected through a secret language written in the folds of a white silk fan. Now in modern-day Shanghai, their descendents must draw inspiration from the past as they struggle to maintain their own eternal bond in the face of life's complications. What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.
13) Race
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs. 15 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
14) Smoke
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Episodic story, divided into five chapters, each bearing the name of a character; main characters appear in most chapters. Most of the characters are connected by the fact that they hang out or work at the Brooklyn Cigar Store, where they tell stories and smoke a lot. Chapters explore the interpersonal relationships between this large and diverse group of characters.
15) Their finest
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1940 set in London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second world war.
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.
17) Eden
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (1 hr., 8 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
According to opera star Joyce DiDonatao, her new album is 'a vivid musical exploration through the centuries to remember and to create a new eden from within.'