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1) Rabbit hole
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Becca and Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. The journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by renowned economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dogs have been domesticated for longer than any other animal on the planet, and humans have developed a unique relationship with these furry friends. New research is revealing what dog lovers have suspected all along, that dogs have an uncanny ability to read and respond to human emotions. How did this incredible relationship between humans and dogs come to be? And how can dogs, so closely related to fearsome wild wolves, behave so differently? It's...
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.
"A shrewd and very...
5) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother's life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder the night before Halloween.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color with b&w sequences ; 12 cm.
Description
A "genre-twisting film by director Sarah Polley, who investigates the elusive truths of her eclectic family of storytellers as she playfully interrogates a cast of characters who each relate their version of the family mythology. Polley reveals the essence of family as she uncovers the secrets buried deep within"--Container.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Richard Alpert, after being expelled from Harvard in 1963 for experimenting with LSD, morphed into Ram Dass, a serious and much loved spiritual leader, author and lecturer. This film visits Ram Dass in 2001 as he remakes his life since suffering a stroke five years ago. Balances fascinating, often hilarious footage from the hippie era with contemporary material and interviews with Ram Dass and his associates.
11) Nightingale
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A war veteran psychologically unravels before a friend's visit.
12) Arts & the mind
Publisher
PBS distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This two part special details the impact of the arts on the human brain across a person's lifetime and explores its role in early human development. Stories are shared showing how the arts can improve children's school performance and reveals cutting edge science that explains the powerful, positive impact of the arts on the human brain.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the best-selling book by Drew Gilpin Faust, this film will explore how the American Civil War created a 'republic of suffering' and will chart the far-reaching social, political, and social changes brought about by the pervasive presence and fear of death during the Civil War.
Publisher
Hens Tooth/Westchester Films Inc
Pub. Date
2014, 1979
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (118 min.) : sd.,col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an experimental government center for troubled Vietnam veterans, the inmates run the asylum. One works on an adaptation of Shakespeare ... for dogs. Another fancies himself a caped superhero. Still others masquerade as frogmen, nurses, nuns, pirates, doctors. Yet Colonel Hudson Kane, the psychiatrist in charge, eyes all with a stoic reserve. Maybe too stoic: there's a mystery here. And its final resolution is like a thunderclap.
15) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Yossarian, a reluctant bombadier stationed in the Mediterranean in World War II, has come to the utterly sane conclusion that everyone is trying to kill him. The Germans, yes, but also commanding officers supposedly on his own side like Col. Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions his flyers must perform to finish their tours. Everybody seems equally dead-set on his destruction, and Yossarian is just as determined to stay alive. An enormous...
16) The good breast
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Through the intimate stories of four breast cancer patients and their surgeons, The Good Breast explores the cultural and emotional roots of the loss of the breast. Unprecedented OR footage presents medicine as a ritual, and the mastectomy as a modern form of breast sacrifice."--IMDb.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2017-2019]
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (approximately 16 hr., 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Margot, along with her friends, visits a bizarre house of horrors consisting of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms.
Follows Alice Woods and her schizophrenic sister Zoe who have moved to a small town to start over. On the outskirts of town lies Butcher's Block, a hellish neighborhood where junkies roam and lawlessness abounds. The sisters encounter Joseph Peach and his family, who offer them a place with promise of a world without worry and...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Lexcorp accidentally unearths the intergalactic serial killer Doomsday, Superman must battle the creature head-on in the fight of his life. The world collectively mourns their fallen hero and humanity realizes it will never feel truly safe again. Superman's enemies rejoice, all but Lex Luthor, who grieves the loss in his own demented manner, setting off a chilling chain of events that even he couldn't have foreseen.
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reveals how the first big artistic discoveries were made and how they have cascaded down the centuries to define the look of the present day. Encompassing everything from cave paints to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, this film explores the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body; the secret powers of the feature film; how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily; visions of the afterlife; and why we use imagery at all....
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