Martin Ritt
1) Sounder
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the 1930s.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an endearing comic love story, a gutsy divorced mother eager to make it as a horse trainer on a small desert ranch is courted by the town's most eligible widower and her ne'er-do-well ex-husband.
3) Nuts
Formats
Description
The pending case: the People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she’s shocking. Outspoken. Explosive. Defiant. But is she “nuts?” Barbra Streisand is Claudia and Richard Dreyfuss is her public defender in the blistering courtroom thriller NUTS and their first-time pairing results in “the dramatic performances of their careers” (Pat Collins, WWOR-TV New York). The sterling...
4) Norma Rae
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.
Series
Sidney Poitier collection volume disc 1
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader, join forces against a corrupt New York waterfront union official. The two share a bond that cuts across society's black/white divide.
6) Hud
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
7) Cross Creek
Publisher
Lion's Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Steenburgen portrays Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who, after ten years as a newspaper reporter and unsuccessful author, turns her back on financial security and takes up residence in the Florida everglades, where she finds inspiration for her best work.
8) Paris blues
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two American jazz musicians living in Paris fall in love with two girls on vacation from America. They must decide whether to stay in Paris for their music careers, or move back to America for love.
9) The front
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Howard Price, a restaurant cashier, poses as a writer so that blacklisted authors can submit their work through him, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand when he is forced to testify at an investigative congressional committee hearing.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
James McParlan is an operative working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who is hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist organization, the "Molly Maguires". The Mollies operate within the impoverished mining communities of Pennsylvania and are mostly Irish emigrants. McParlan is selected to infiltrate the organization to pose as a new member, but it quickly becomes apparent that the working conditions are truly...
11) Hombre
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.