River Road Entertainment (Firm)
1) Food, Inc. 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo team up with authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to examine the modern food industry's efficiency and vulnerabilities.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
3) Food, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. w/ b&w seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
4) Fair game
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
George is a man whose struggle to find food and a place to sleep in New York City is beautifully captured with remarkable realism and heartrending compassion. Shuffled into the unforgiving bureaucracy of a men's shelter, George seems destined to wind up as just another lost soul swallowed up by the system, until he meets a gregarious, down-and-out ex-jazzman who inspires George to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. +
Description
This is a film about the conflict between nature and grace, the agonizing mystery of God, and the meaning of life itself. The death of his brother forces Jack O'Brien to confront his past, which is dominated by his difficult relationship with his father. Jack's father was a stern authoritarian whose no-nonsense demeanor masked a host of unfulfilled dreams. His mother was a gentle, kind woman who often allowed her own needs and desires to give way...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in with Lionel Sweeney. Sweeney is an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. Diane's strange, new world unlocks her deepest secrets, awakens her remarkable artistic genius, and launches her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.
12) 12 years a slave
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad...
13) Love & mercy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 122 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalog of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.