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Pub. Date
[2004], c1983
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of a life-changing experience for a biologist studying the wolves in Canada's inhospitable North. A green young biologist named Tyler (Smith), is sent by the Canadian government to "prove" that the wolves are depleting the caribou herds, but what he finds is a natural world in perfect harmony where he becomes a tolerated outsider. Dumped unprepared in the wilds by a hard drinking bush pilot (Dennehy), Tyler learns survival skills from the aged...
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (186 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Inside the walls of St. Vincent's Orphanage, young boys fall victim to sexual, physical and emotional abuse at the hands of their guardians. Henry Czerny gives a terrifying performance as Brother Lavin, the head of the orphanage who must juggle the teachings of the church with his own personal demons. The plight of the boys under his care remains a secret until the orphanage janitor and a local policeman speak out against the Brothers' appalling...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (371 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The citizens of Hope Valley have come together season after season to face the triumphs and tragedies of life in a small town on the frontier -- and you can share it all with them. Included in this collection are the television films It Begins With Heart, The Queen Of Hearts, A Call From The Past, and Recent Memory.--Shout Factory
4) Indian horse
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better opportunities, but no matter how far Saul goes, the ghosts...
5) Braven
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Joe and his father arrive at their remote hunting cabin, they're hoping for a quiet weekend. What they find is a stash of heroin, hidden in the cabin by drug traffickers. When the criminals suddenly descend upon the cabin, Joe and his father must make a kill-or-be-killed stand for survival.
8) Little Bird
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (467 min.) : sound, color, black and white, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Naughty Marietta: A French princess flees to New Orleans to avoid marrying a nobleman she doesn't love. In bayou country she falls for a swaggering soldier, who wards off pirates and a king to keep her.
Rose-Marie: Sgt. Bruce, a Canadian Mountie, encounters Marie de Flor, a glamorous prima donna renowned for her beauty, exquisite voice and fierce temperament, as he searches for her brother who has killed a Mountie.
Maytime: One of the top-grossing...
10) Riesgo bajo cero
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a ₁big-rig₂ ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.
11) Tusk
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wickedly funny modern-day monster movie that will hold you in terror as it keeps you in stitches. A podcaster looking for a juicy story is plunged into a bloodcurdling nightmare after he travels to the backwoods of Canada and meets an eccentric recluse with a lifetime of adventures, and a disturbing fondness for walruses.
12) Maudie
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A new adaptation of the classic series, the film is set in 1907 on beautiful Prince Edward Island. Anne Shirley is sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who wanted to adopt a boy. Anne must make her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and in Avonlea to ensure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.
14) Black Robe
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the rugged 17th century Canadian wilderness, Father Laforgue, a young and idealistic Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the wilderness on a perilous journey to convert the Huron Indians. His Algonquin Indian quides nickname him "Black Robe." His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the beautiful daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested...
15) Slash/Back
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Pangnirtung, Canada, just 31 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it's just a typical summer day with no school, no cool boys (well... except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her friends, everything changes when they discover an alien invasion threatening their small village. These teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives but, using makeshift weapons and their horror movie knowledge, they fight to show the aliens that you...
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 840 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
Follows the continuing story of teacher Elizabeth Thatcher, widow Abigail Stanton, Constable Jack Thornton and the other residents of the 19th century Canadian coal mining company town of Coal Valley.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 84 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coalmining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Lori Loughlin plays Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen other miners, has just been killed in an explosion. The...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 840 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Continues the adventures of young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher and Mountie Jack Thornton, as they face new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, a town on the Canadian frontier.
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, Logan and Victor, two half-brothers with special powers grow up amid violence. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors known as Wolverine and Sabretooth. William Stryker is a sinister government operative whose Weapon X program experiments keep pulling Wolverine back in. Kayla Silverfox shares a peaceful Canadian co-existence with Wolverine as he tries to drop out...
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