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1) Grease
Formats
Description
Go back to high school with Pink Lady Sandy, leader of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny, and a rockin' and rollin' all-star cast.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2015
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (505 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family and dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1957
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four different love affairs simultaneously wreak havoc in the lives of the inhabitants of a tropical paradise. A wealthy plantation owner plots murder when he suspects his wife of having an adulterous relationship. At the same time, his sister-in-law is drawn to his enemy, a dedicated black labor leader, and a governor's aide is torn over his scandalous affair with a native woman.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim MacLaine leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park. With the help of his new friend Mike, he soon discovers a wild world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home to face his future. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called...
6) Indignation
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in 1951, the storyline focuses on a bright and promising young man from a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, who gets a scholarship to attend a small college in Ohio and thus avoids being drafted,but whose ethical principles and nonconformism set him to clash with the people around him and, most importantly, with the dean of the college.
7) Indignation
Publisher
Roadside Attractions Llc
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Passion ignites culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story based on the bestselling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey, arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio, where he becomes infatuated with his classmate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and his own beliefs to the ultimate test.
8) Fences
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xviii, 101 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can,...
9) Diner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
10) Grease live!
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of teenagers learn about life and love in their 1950's high school.
11) Till
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
13) Cry baby
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A spoof and homage to 1950's teen rock melodramas. Cry Baby is a rebel with a gang of rough friends. Allison is the straight-laced girl who falls for him.
14) Hail, Caesar!
Formats
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
15) The front
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Howard Price, a restaurant cashier, poses as a writer so that blacklisted authors can submit their work through him, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand when he is forced to testify at an investigative congressional committee hearing.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 383 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
High school students Richie Cunningham and his friends, "Potsie", Ralph, and "The Fonz" head a brilliant comedic cast in 1950's Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Arnold's Drive-In is the local hangout and meeting place, and lots of hilarious, memorable and classic adventures are the results.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013, 1977
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (228 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a Brooklyn store clerk who is a Saturday night disco king; he begins to question the narrowness of his perspective when he meets a girl who is shedding her origins for a more sophisticated lifestyle.
A musical about the fabulous 50's. This edition includes retrospective interviews with principal stars, the director and producer.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (519 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the final season, Sarah Nordmann finally marries wealthy landowner George Bligh. But as Sarah takes her place as lady of Ash Park, George's mother, Elizabeth, feels pushed out of the household. George's son, James, returns from abroad to start a business, while his daughter, Anna, lives in Hawaii with her sister-in-law, hiding a secret from the family. The Bligh's face tragedies, betrayals, and new beginnings that will challenge their relationships...
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