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1) Muse of Fire
Publisher
Illuminations
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to discover everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Consulting a host of helpful luminaries along the way, including Ian McKellen, James Earl Jones, Judi Dench, and Tom Hiddleston, their exciting road trip takes them to Denmark with Jude Law, Hollywood with Baz Luhrman, a prison in Berlin and Shakespeare’s home in...
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In the aftermath of Fifty Shades a cottage industry emerged around self-published romance novels. Once women who worked forty-hour-a-week jobs, living paycheck-to-paycheck, many of them are now New York Times bestselling authors with their own merchandise lines and die-hard fans. NAUGHTY BOOKS follows three such women who garnered thousands of fans and secured lucrative book deals with major publishing houses by writing about good girls and bad boys...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1970.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
VCI is pleased to present this iconic film in a new 2K restoration from the original 35mm negative! Based on Erich von Daniken's book purporting to prove that aliens have visited earth. Recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences one of the Top 100 Documentaries of All Time. Bonus full-length documentary, "Mysteries of the Gods," continues von Daniken's search for the truth.
4) Genet
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Documentary by Antoine Bourseiler about the work of writer, director, Jean Genet.
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of New York’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked the downfall of the iconic author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood. Through never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote’s famous friends and infamous enemies, THE CAPOTE TAPES reveals the rise and fall of one of America’s most influential writers and public figures....
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, junkie, genius, influential postmodern author and subject of films, biographies and stage performances is the star of his own convoluted life.
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A feature-length documentary focusing on the history, impact and future of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a global book gifting program. With guest narrator, actress and author, Danica McKellar and the music of Dolly Parton.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with Dick Cavett and David Frost, with clips from some of the duo’s most memorable movie adaptations: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat...
9) H4
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
H4 translates Shakespeare's plays, Henry IV parts I and II, into a futuristic Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the black community.
10) Algren
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The documentary ALGREN is a journey through the gritty world, brilliant mind, and noble heart of Nelson Algren. Exploding onto the national scene in 1950 after winning the first-ever National Book Award for 'The Man with the Golden Arm,' Algren defined post-war American urban fiction with his gritty, brilliant depiction of working class Chicago. Hemingway declared him second only to Faulkner; Vonnegut dubbed him a literary groundbreaker. Hollywood...
11) Salinger
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (129 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
SALINGER features interviews with 150 subjects - including Salinger's friends and colleagues who have never spoken on the record - as well as film footage, photographs, and other material never before seen.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
What do we know about Agatha Christie herself? Combining rare access to Agatha’s family, her personal archive and speaking to those who know her work best, discover what made the world’s most successful crime writer tick.
Publisher
Yukon Film Society
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
THE GRUBSTAKE REMIX reimagines Nell Shipman's 1923 northwoods melodrama as a dramatic comedy where the on-screen characters speak in Shakespearean English and French. A young woman - played on screen by Nell Shipman and in voice by Vancouver's Sarah Moore - goes north to the Klondike to seek her fortune only to be deceived and manipulated in a world dominated by men. Grubstake Remix is a unique cinema hybrid that crosses between the worlds of performance...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (325 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This series reveals not just the elements, but the history of the plays themselves. What sparked the creation of each of these works? What cultural, political and religious factors influenced his writing? What makes Shakespeare unique?
15) Rudyard Kipling
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The life of the famed 19th and 20th-century British writer who spent his early years in India before returning to England in 1889.
Publisher
Illuminations Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, BEING SHAKESPEARE is a one-man show about the life and work of the world’s greatest playwright. Written by the renowned scholar Jonathan Bate, and taking its cue from Jacques’ famous ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in As You Like It, the drama traces Shakespeare’s life from his birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 to his burial there fifty-two years later. Weaving together this story with...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Julius Caesar upholds Liberty against Tyranny. But what is tyranny? Presenter Brian Cox examines how this play challenges all political systems and all definitions of tyranny -- challenging us to wonder how well we even know ourselves.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
F. Murray Abraham, who has played two great Jewish "villains," including Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, one of Shakespearean comedy's many "excluded" figures, explains the European anti-Semitism in Shakespeare's time.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Antony Sher’s 1977 interpretation of the infamous villain Richard III defined the role for a generation. This is the story of how Shakespeare created both a loathsome and brilliant manipulator and a real man who speaks to every age.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Simon Russell Beale presents The Winter’s Tale -- an intense psychological drama, driven by passion and obsession. In this play, Shakespeare pushes theatrical technique to its limits, and offers us an astonishing ending full of hope.
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