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Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at the life of controversial musician, activist, and environmentalist Pete Seeger, and how he used his songs to promote social change. Includes archival footage and interviews with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, and more.
3) Bully
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is a character-driven documentary following five kids and families over the course of a school year. Offering insight into different facets of America's bullying crisis, the stories include two families who have lost children to suicide and a mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter, who has been incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus. Documentary provides an intimate and often shocking glimpse into homes, classrooms,...
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cantankerous but doting husband Arthur does not share his wife Marion's passion for performing. While she is happy to sing her heart out with the unconventional local choir, Arthur would prefer to hide himself away and complain about how embarrassing it all is. But when heartbreak strikes, Arthur is forced to re-think his outlook on life. Arthur begins to find a way to come out of his shell and in the process forms a desire to build bridges with his...
5) Sicko
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by U.S. health care insurance companies, companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...
7) Hoodwinked
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Little Red Riding Hood, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Woodsman all face Detective Flippers as he attempts to determine the real events of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
8) St. Vincent
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie, a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her twelve-year old son, Oliver. Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent, a retired curmudgeon with a desire for alcohol and gambling. An odd friendship soon blossoms between the improbable pair. Together with a pregnant stripper, named Daka, Vincent brings Oliver along on all the stops that make up his daily routine,...
11) The artist
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
12) Grace of Monaco
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Grace Kelly is a huge movie star with the promise of a glittering career when she marries Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. Six years later, with her marriage in serious difficulty, Alfred Hitchcock offers her the chance to return to Hollywood to play the role of Marnie in his next film. But France is also threatening to annex Monaco, the tiny principality where she became the Princess. Grace is torn and forced to choose between the creative flame...
13) Sarah's key
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah.
14) The founder
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
16) Saving Santa
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lowly stable elf (Martin Freeman) must travel back in time to save Santa's Kingdom from the evil billionaire scoundrel Neville Baddington (Tim Curry).
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
18) The Giver
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
19) Lion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
20) Woman in Gold
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court"--Container....