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Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 85 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
"The latest research shows that people almost never zrise to the occasiony when faced with a life-threatening challenge, regardless of how often we hear that phrase. Instead, as Professor Nancy Zarse explains in the 12 empowering lectures of Survival Mentality: The Psychology of Staying Alive, people generally revert to their lowest level of training and preparation. And Professor Zarse knows this firsthand. She brings not only her academic knowledge,...
2) Bambi
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
The world's most endearing animated tale about the beauty of nature and the miracle of life.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and goes to live with his mountain dwelling grandparents and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation, PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DNA testing companies are trending nationally, with over 30 million Americans hoping to receive clues to family origins and forecasts of their future health -- not knowing the results can be misleading, or not considering that family secrets can tear apart relationships. The biggest risk, however, may be what these companies do with our information once they have it, so this program objectively explores the promise and peril of consumer DNA testing....
5) Little voice
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Painfully shy "little voice" can only express herself by singing in the voices of others, but once her mother's sleazy boyfriend (Caine) overhears her incredible voice, he'll do anything to drag the recluse into the spotlight and make her a star.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lovely and amazing is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A frustrated composer comes to realize that his real passion is teaching and that his legacy is not a truly memorable piece of music, but the generations of young people whose lives he affects.
9) Half baked
Author
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three lovable stoners try to find cash to bail their friend out of jail. But just when they have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.
10) Songcatcher
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician, and is profoundly...
11) The Gift
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than twenty years.
"[An] expertly crafted exercise in guilt, ambiguity and revenge."--Boston Globe
"One of the many gifts conferred by The Gift is the unaccustomed pleasure of feeling like putty in the hands of a first-rate storyteller."--Wall Street Journal
"More than...
12) Riding giants
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From its early Hawaiian roots to its current status as a recreational lifestyle enjoyed worldwide, big wave surfing is given the definitive exploration by acclaimed director Stacy Peralta.
13) Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
14) The field
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer, the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
15) Colors
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two L.A. cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the war raging on the streets of L.A.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While still homeless, Liz earned her diploma in two years....
18) Rumble fish
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A street punk worships his older brother, who is the leader of a gang.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a classic English story, Cassandra Mortmain chronicles in her diary what happens to her eccentric family when a young American man inherits the local estate. The bittersweet love story that ensues is far more complicated than she ever imagines.
20) Heartburn
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bitter romance based on Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel about her relationship with Carl Bernstein.
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