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1) The founder
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
Publisher
American Experience
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Walt Disney was uniquely adept at art as well as commerce, a master filmmaker who harnessed the power of technology and storytelling. This new film examines Disney's complex life and enduring legacy. Features rare archival footage from the Disney vaults, scenes from some of his greatest films, interviews with biographers and animators, and the designers who helped turn his dream of Disneyland into reality.
3) Pavarotti
Publisher
Lionsgate
Formats
Description
Academy Award winner Ron Howard puts audiences front row center for an exploration of The Voice. The Man. The Legend. Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. This cinematic event features history-making performances and intimate interviews, including never-before-seen footage and cutting-edge Dolby Atmos technology. A riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people.
4) My left foot
Series
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
5) Joe Bell
Formats
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about kindness, love, and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbor.
9) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was the first artist to top the Pop, Country, and R&B charts...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This drama tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Money, power, politics, drugs, scandal, and fast cars. The incredible story of John DeLorean is the stuff of a Hollywood screenwriter's dreams. But who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man. For the first time, the story recounts the extraordinary life and legend of the controversial automaker.
15) Maudie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
16) Montage of Heck
Publisher
Ume
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Directed by acclaimed film maker Brett Morgen, who expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music. Never before seen movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends. This DVD format includes the two hour plus documentary plus 48...
17) Lincoln
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
18) 55 steps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
19) Django
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
A powerful biopic focusing on the life of legendary Romani jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.
20) Stardust
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the young David Bowie's first visit to the US in 1971, a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
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