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Publisher
Norton Simon Art Foundation
Pub. Date
2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (33 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The compelling true-life story of a complex and fascinating man who built a corporate empire, led a dynamic public life, and created one of America's premier art collections"--Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate
5) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century.
6) Frida Kahlo
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Come on a journey through the life of one of the most prevalent female icons: Frida Kahlo. She was a prolific self-portraitist, using the canvas as a mirror through all stages of her turbulent and, at times, tragic life. Guided by interviews, commentary, and Frida's own words, Exhibition on Screen uncovers that this, however, was not a life defined by tragedy. Featuring key exhibitions and interviews with world-renowned Kahlo curators, Exhibition...
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
p2012, c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the life and career of Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki as he delivers a lecture on human ecology and the web of life. David Suzuki, iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcaster, and activist, delivers a lecture on the eve of his 75th birthday, which he describes as a distillation of his life and thoughts, his legacy, what he wants to say before he dies. Filmed before a live audience, in front of a memory box of moving, distilled...
Publisher
Filmrise
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America's most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story. Jeff Dahmer (Disney Channel's Ross Lynch) is an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school with a family life in ruins. He collects roadkill, fixates on a neighborhood jogger (Vincent Kartheiser, "Mad Men"),...
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Produced in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, this fascinating documentary explores the turbulent life and dark creative spirit of its writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines his disappointing college days at Princeton, his disastrous marriage to Zelda, his difficult relationship with Hemingway, and his tendency to sell out and compromise his talent for cash, which led to his turbulent last days in Hollywood....
10) Julie & Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
11) The right stuff
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Description
The true story of Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton-- the seven men chosen for the Mercury Project manned space flight program in the U.S.
12) Young@Heart
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young at Heart Chorus is based in Northampton, Massachusetts. See the final weeks of rehearsal for the group, whose average age is 81 and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music is unexpected, going against the stereotype of their age group, performing songs that range from James Brown to Coldplay. The group has toured Europe and sung for royalty. Now they are focusing on preparing new songs, not an easy endeavor,...
13) October sky
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Homer Hickam Jr., a high school student in rural West Virginia, who seemed destined to repeat his father's harsh life in the coal mines, until he turned his attention to the skies.
15) The Post
Formats
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.
16) Ruby Bridges
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When bright six-year-old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
17) The forger
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Berlin, 1940. Cioma Schönhaus is a young Jewish man who won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma audaciously adopts the identity of a marine officer to escape being deported like his family before him. Drawing on his art school background, he joins a network of underground rescuers and becomes infamous for his masterfully forged IDs, created with just a brush, some...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill, the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
19) Cleopatra
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 248 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cleopatra tries to increase her power with help from the Roman Empire. Both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony fall for her. After Caesar's death, Cleopatra seduces Mark Antony, but the couple soon face certain doom.
20) Emily
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Tells the story of Emily Brontë as a young woman struggling within the confines of social expectations and yearning for creative and personal freedom.
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