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Pub. Date
(c)2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rather thank taking a reverent look back at an established artist, Bechard's new film serves as an introduction of sorts to a musical life in progress, diving deep into the evolving career of the gloriously talented Loveless and the bandmates alongside her. Lydia and company may be on a familar and off-repeated journey--from tour van to rock club to recording studio and repeat--but theirs is a singular vision thanks to the geniune, honest, and charismatic...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1976, producer Graham Leader and director James Szalapski documented the outlaw songwriter scene that extended from Austin and Nashville. Included were then relative unknowns Steve Earle (ten years before he released his first album), Rodney Crowell and John Hiatt, plus their musical mentors Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, who delivers a memorable scene in his trailer-home, drunk with a BB gun. Born was Heartworn Highways, a cult classic documentary...
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
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inside The Mind of Agatha Chirstie - Agatha Christie ranks as one of the most successful writers of all time. Combining rare access to Christie₂s family and her personal archive, the show gives viewers a never-before-seen look into the late crime writer₂s fascinating life story. Agatha Christie's England - retraces the celebrated English writer₂s footsteps across the United Kingdom. With access to both her family and those who lived with her...
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary about comedian Lenny Bruce, who died in 1966. In his personal life he was a tortured soul, and his humor was ahead of the times, but his influence was enormous. He attacked hypocracy, racism, war and organized religion, and was rewarded by being hounded by the police.
6) Great circle
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
7) Amy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The incredible story of six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse - in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving, and vital film shines a light on our culture and the world we live in today.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Becoming "Leslie" is a documentary that reveals the inner and bizarre world of Albert 'Leslie' Cochran, a rebellious, cross-dressing homeless man who became the most unlikely civic symbol of Austin, Texas. Told with unapologetic humor, the film chronicles the steady career of a nomadic misfit turned a cultural icon while he searches for love and a true sense of home. Through Leslie, one man's efforts to preserve his own identity are paralleled with...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A personal and emotional documentary that follows the lives of four people with bipolar disorder, a mental illness often stigmatized, ill-defined, and maltreated by medical professionals and the mainstream media.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tribute to Freddie Mercury, almost 30 years after his tragic death. Featuring contributions from his closest friends and colleagues plus fellow musicians and the finest critics, writers and broadcasters, this film also boasts extensive archive footage, interviews and news reports from the man himself and with the group which he so expertly co-created.
15) Dancer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this highly anticipated, official fully authorized feature documentary, the absolute instigator of rock and roll, Chuck Berry is truly revealed, with exclusive access, including first ever contributions from Mrs. Berry and the Berry family.
17) Gilbert
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gilbert Gottfried rose to fame in the 1980s thanks to his brash stand-up act and personality. Now, after decades of flying solo in both his work and in his personal life, Gilbert has shockingly reinvented himself as a family man.
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nat Hentoff is one of the enduring voices of the last 65 years, a writer who championed jazz as an art form and who also led the rise of 'alternative' journalism in America. This unique documentary wraps the themes of liberty, identity and free expression around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of author P.G. Wodehouse who came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War. The master of fanciful plots had become a pawn in one of the biggest propaganda battles of the war between Germany and the Allies over the entry of the United States into the conflict.
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