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Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While on an investigation into a series of grisly murders, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and the dark, sultry world of New Orleans mobster 'Baby Feet' Balboni. Layers of corruption and long-dead secrets reawaken grudges and a lethal alliance.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Living in "the Bathtub," a marginal Delta community in southern Louisiana, six-year-old Hushpuppy sets out in search of her lost mother on a makeshift raft after her father falls ill and nature seems to unleash its fury in rising floodwaters and attacks from prehistoric creatures called aurochs. Can Hushpuppy save the day? Bonus features include the making of Beasts of the Southern Wild and the theatrical trailer.
4) Sounder
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the 1930s.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....
Publisher
Dodi Film Productions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three strangers of two generations embark on a road trip through post-Katrina Louisiana. Along the way, relationships forge and change in a myriad of ways, leading to the possibility of second chances at life and love.
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
8) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for a crime they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Series
Fox film noir volume 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Reed confirms the dead man had bubonic plague, he must find and inoculate the killers.
11) Scorchers
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence. On the other side of town, Splendid's cousin is having her own problems.
12) My Louisiana sky
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
14) Antebellum
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Successful author Veronica Henley is finishing a book tour before she returns home to her husband and daughter. But a shocking turn of events is about to upend Veronica's existence, plunging her into a horrifying reality that forces her to confront her past, present, and future-before it's too late.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, season five goes deep into the battle between the Vampire Authority and 'vampire fundamentalists': a political power play whose outcome could decide not only the fate of Sookie and her Bon Temps friends, but of all human existence.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner of Merlotte's who tries to keep his feelings for Sookie...
17) The blind
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Set in the 1960s South, The blind shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place"--
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a world where vampires are an out and vocal minority, a telepathic Louisiana barmaid falls for a century-old member of the undead who is suspected of murder. Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old...
20) Eve's bayou
Series
Criterion collection volume 1154
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
“The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old...” So begins Kasi Lemmons’s spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory steeped in fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her charming father—setting in motion a series of deceptions and betrayals that will upend her world and challenge her understanding of reality....
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