Meryl Streep
1) Suffragette
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
A New York socialite dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
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Description
Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began. Ten years later, come back to the magical island of Kalokairi in this sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna, she'll need to take risks.
"The rare sequel so unexpectedly enchanting that it plays less like a rehash than a reclamation."--Los Angeles Times
"That old ABBA magic can make even a middling movie that much better."--USA Today
"Swede...
Series
Becoming green volume 4
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
A modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel, all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with...
7) The homesman
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hilarious look at marriage, divorce, and everything in between. With a thriving Santa Barbara bakery, a new romance heating up, and her divorce finally behind her, Jane Adler has her life all figured out, until she finds herself trapped between the perfect new beau and her philandering ex-husband who's determined to win her back. When opposites attract all over again, will love be sweeter the second time around? It's... complicated!
9) The Post
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Description
Determined to uphold the nation's civil liberties, Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, and hard-nosed editor Ben Bradlee join forces to expose a decades-long cover-up. However, the two must risk their careers and their freedom to bring truth to light.
Series
Criterion collection volume 700
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (87 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. Based on the beloved, best selling book by Roald Dahl.
11) The giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
12) The iron lady
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
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.
13) The deer hunter
Formats
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
15) Heartburn
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bitter romance based on Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel about her relationship with Carl Bernstein.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, this Sundance documentary brings to light the vital stories of the environmental movement where people fought, and succeeded, against enormous odds.
17) One true thing
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A daughter Ellen, gives up her job and boyfriend to take care of her dying mother. Her father, a gifted professor of an English department, is more occupied with having his life running as smoothly as possible than caring for his wife. Living at home, Ellen discovers many new aspects to her parents' personalities, a father who is human despite his imperfections and a mother who loves her family passionately. When her mother finally dies, Ellen is...
18) Manhattan
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.