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1) The S word
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A suicide attempt survivor is on a mission to find fellow survivors and document their stories of unguarded courage, insight, pain and humor. Along the way, she discovers a national community rising to transform personal struggles into action. The S Word chronicles her journey and these survivors in a powerful feature documentary that puts a human face to a topic that has long been stigmatized and buried with the lives it has claimed. Suicide affects...
4) Joe Bell
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, the film is written for the screen by the show's Tony winner Steven Levenson with music and lyrics by the show's Oscar,...
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hoping to earn extra money, an innocent and reserved scholarship student at an exclusive prep school agrees to look after a blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel, who takes him off for a wild weekend in New York City.
7) Hard luck
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (22 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Silent film star Buster Keaton plays a down-on-his-luck young man who decides to end it all after losing his job and his girl. Silent with English intertitles.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Powerful story of love and redemption of an American professor, Arthur, who travels to Japan. He embarks on a spiritual and life-changing journey with Takumi, whom he found lost near the base of Mount Fuji. Takumi had gotten lost after attempting to commit suicide, now they fight for their survival while they are on their journey of reflection. Arthur's will to live reconnects him to his love for his wife.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. The Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana is shaken to its core by a teen suicide epidemic that claims 22 Native lives in a single year including two high school basketball team members. 'For Walter And Josiah' follows the team during their season as the surviving members play to honor their fallen brothers and uplift their community.
11) Better off dead
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts only bring him more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can't help but identify with, and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland's writing/directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years.
12) Long way down
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four strangers happen to meet on a London rooftop with the intent of committing suicide on New Year's Eve. They decide to call off their plans for six weeks and form an unconventional, dysfunctional family and friendship.
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