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Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (25 pages ; illustrations ; 18 cm)
Description
A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, Ill. The film is essential John Ford Americana; Fonda's Lincoln is a mythic rugged individualist.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tale, based on a true story, of a young man accepted to college and struggling to achieve against heavy odds. Because of a drug addicted mother and absentee father, he is adopted by an abusive foster family and then bounces around from family to family. He's been told he is a failure most of his life, until he meets a teacher who helps to change the direction of his life and realize that a negative environment does not define who a person will become....
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
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
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD-video (1 hr., 43 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers. Escalante pushes and inspires 18 students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes.
8) Anne Frank
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (189 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The beloved, unforgettable true-life story of romance, intrigue, and courage during the world's darkest hour. For the first time in a television drama, the identities of the Franks' betrayers are revealed.
9) Te Ata
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Chickasaw woman (Q'orianka Kilcher) begins performing Native American songs and stories while attending college in the 1910s. Her work eventually wins acclaim on Broadway, as well as from heads of state and international audiences. Nathan Frankowski directed this historical drama based on the life and career of Mary Thompson Fisher.
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
2022.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
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.
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jacques Goldstein goes on a quest for a specter, a specter that haunts jazz. Who was Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist and composer to whom we owe the invention of free jazz? If his seminal body of work is now, rightfully so, fully recognized, the man remains deliberately mysterious and enigmatic. The director visits and interviews musicians who owe him a lot. A portrait of Ornette takes shape as these sketches gradually unfold, the man who thought...
14) Getting over
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man discovers a box of interviews with his father, a heroin addict who died of AIDS in 1997. What he finds will uncover generations of family secrets, forcing him to redefine his own past, doubt his present, and question his future.
15) Ray
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ray is the triumphant and remarkable story of one of America's true musical geniuses, Ray Charles.
16) 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.
17) Papillon
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thrilling adventure of an escape from a French Guiana prison.
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.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
If it hadn't been for a bottle of scotch and a late-night visit from musician Gregg Allman, Jimmy Carter might never have been elected the 39th President of the United States. This documentary charts the mostly forgotten story of how Carter, a lover of all types of music, forged a tight bond with musicians Willie Nelson, the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and others.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This feature documentary by filmmaker Kasper Collin is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.
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