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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Teenaged Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking, leads a carefree life in rural Sweden. Eager to break free from her conservative upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she leaves home to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her imagination and gift...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine...
3) All is true
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
5) The Duke
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wimbledon, 1980. The rainiest summer in decades. The world is waiting to see the number one tennis player in the world, Bjorn Borg, claim his fifth Wimbledon title. But few know of the drama behind the scenes: at only 24, Borg is close to the end, run-down, worn out and ridden with anxiety. Meanwhile, the challenger John McEnroe, 20, has decided to replace his former hero on the Wimbledon throne. A story about the price of success.
7) U-571
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet Hans Litten, the brilliant young lawyer who dares to cross-examine Adolf Hitler in a Berlin courtroom in 1931. Litten's goal: to expose Hitler's true character and murderous plans, and halt the rapid rise of the Nazi Party. His reward: the red-hot hatred and fatal revenge of a hostile witness. It sweeps you into this little-known, true story of collision between the future Fuhrer's blatant contempt for the law, and Litten's brave but futile attempt...
11) Hive =: Zgjoi
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sundance's triple award-winning film is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. To provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering...
12) Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.
13) House of Gucci
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 2 hours, 38 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
15) Belfast
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
16) The big short
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jared Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms the ominous suspicion; and Charlie Gellar and Jamie Shipley,...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In nineteenth-century England, jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Julia convinces her friend to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman or the perfect hoax.
18) The Northman
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.
20) Howards End
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
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