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4) Saving Grace
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A recent widow joins with the caretaker of her estate on the Cornish coast to use her green thumb for fun and profit. All goes well until the business starts booming.
5) Agatha
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told.
6) Zardoz
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A postapocalyptic story of a privileged society separated from the mass of the population who have reverted to savagery living in a world devasted by war and pollution. When a particularly bright savage makes his way into the world of the Eternals, he discovers the truth of his reality, and change for the world begins.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Michael Jackson impersonator finds love and new friends in a home in the Scottish Highlands, when he is taken in by a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, in a castle that is home to Shirley Temple, Buckwheat, Madonna, The Pope, and other impersonators.
8) Bent
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.
9) In the loop
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Britain's Secretary Of State For International Development Simon Foster states, in the midst of a radio interview, that a war in the Middle East in "unforeseeable," it doesn't follow his government's "line" on events. The problem is that war is not unforeseeable, what with America itching to invade somewhere in the Middle East and the British government loyally following. Unfortunately, Foster suspects nothing about the firestorm to follow. By...
10) Fish tank
Series
Criterion collection volume 553
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Mia... lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's new boyfriend... enters the picture"--Container.
11) Hockney
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A portrait of David Hockney, legendary artist and an early icon for LGBTQ and AIDS activism.
12) Yellowbeard
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After serving a 20 year sentence for tax evasion, a notorious pirate escapes to claim his hidden treasure after being imposed with an additional bogus prison sentence by the Royal Navy.
13) Another year
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
14) Billy Elliot
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
15) Zulu
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Zulu is set in Africa in 1879 only hours after the battle of Isandhlwana. A small group of British soldiers stood their ground at a farm house at Rorke's Drift against an onslaught of wave after wave of Zulus.
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths--Johnny, a working-class white, and Omar, a Pakistani. Together they operate a laundrette, which Omar inherits from his uncle. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches.
17) Lady Jane
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1553, England's idle rich were anything but idle. With the blessing of the Royal family, they plundered of the riches of the church, stole the finest farmlands, and generally took all the best things the country had to offer. A cousin to the infamous Henry VIII, Lady Jane Grey disapproved of the way her fellow nobles behaved, and disagreed with their religious beliefs. But as a sheltered 16-year-old, there wasn't much she could do about it. Then,...
18) Pride
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
19) The red violin
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Upon unearthing a one-of-a-kind, blood red violin, appraiser Charles Morritz uncovers the spectacular journey of the long-lost masterpiece - how it changed hands and the lives of all who touched it.
20) Skin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite being born to Afrikaner parents, Sandra faces prejudice from her community due to her dark skin and African features. Torn between her family and the man she loves, Sandra must overcome the racial intolerance of her society in this uplifting true story.
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