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1) 55 steps
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 55 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three women at risk of developing Alzheimer's join a groundbreaking study to try to prevent the disease, while sharing their ups and downs, anxiously watching for symptoms, and hoping they can make a difference.
4) Love, Gilda
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Never-before-seen footage and journal entries form the narrative spine of the documentary, allowing Gilda Radner to tell her own story; through the laughter and sometimes the tears. Incredibly, she was able to find humor in even the darkest of times. Her spirit lives on in comedy as a female trailblazer who continues to inspire many present day comedic performers.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frankie is an African-American go-go dancer with dissociative identity disorder (DID). She struggles to retain her true self while fighting against two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist named Alice. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After surviving eight near-death accidents throughout his unlucky life, Louis Drax plunges off a steep cliff on his ninth birthday. While police investigate the cause of Louis's near-fatal fall and the whereabouts of his violent father, Peter, acclaimed neurologist Dr. Allan Pascal uses unorthodox techniques to try to tap into the boy's unconscious mind and reveal the truth about the events that led to his condition.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (324 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young engineer goes to visit his cousin at a tubercular sanatorium in the Swiss Alps intending to stay three weeks, but ends by staying on for seven years to observe the disturbed personnel and patients. The unfolding exchanges between the protagonists are meant to present a microcosm of the society of pre-World War I Europe in this dramatization based on a Nobel Prize-winning novel.
8) Alive inside
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A joyous cinematic exploration of music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.
9) Catching up
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank, a romantically inexperienced man with muscular dystrophy, spends his free time posing as a boyfriend for his closeted buddy Lorraine so her overbearing mother won't find out she's gay. But when his able-bodied childhood crush, Judy, takes a job at the high school where he works, Frank's desire for a real relationship is unexpectedly awakened.
10) The Cuban
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a naïve pre-med student gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis, an elderly Cuban musician, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.
11) Augie
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Augie Nieto is known as the Steve Jobs of the fitness industry. At 47, he was diagnosed with ALS. Since then, he and his wife Lynne have been on a quest to change the course of ALS. This is their love story.
12) Serendipity
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Multi-disciplinary French artist Prune Nourry has gained international recognition for her thought-provoking, educational, and frequently humorous projects exploring bioethics through sculpture as well as video, photography, and performance. At the young age of 31, Purne is diagnosed with breast cancer. She starts documenting her treatment and its effect on her own body, turning her medical odyssey into an epic artistic adventure.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Claire Smythson, wife of the famous abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his last show.
14) Last Christmas
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In recovery from a life-threatening illness, Kate's work as an elf at a Christmas-themed shop begins to suffer as she keeps the secret from her employer and does not discuss it with her first-generation immigrant parents or her distanced sister. As the holidays draw closer, she encounters the same kind-hearted man repeatedly, and finds herself eventually warming to him despite his unreliable nature, letting his optimistic worldview gradually change...
15) Supernova
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
16) Breathe
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis.
17) The healer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man discovers suddenly to have the gift of healing. Trying to understand it and the new reality that it offers, a teenage girl with terminal cancer unexpectedly will show him the way.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from a nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the wrestling school of The Salt Water Redneck, his idol. Through circumstances beyond their control, Tyler, a small-time outlaw on the run, becomes Zak's unlikely coach and ally.
19) John Q
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Q. is a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. He and his wife soon discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although they have an HMO, they are informed that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money for the surgury himself and with no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the...
20) Self/less
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the secret organization that will kill to protect its cause.
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