Harvey Weinstein
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD)(166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After a bloody clash Vallon is dead, and his son Amsterdam Vallon ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, Amsterdam returns to seek vengeance against the man who killed his father.
Language
English
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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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.
4) The burning
Language
English
Formats
Description
A camp caretaker who was horribly burned from a prank that went awry stalks a summer camp in New York bent on killing the kids responsible for his disfigurement.
5) The giver
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before!
7) Fanboys
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four diehard Star Wars fans take a road trip to break into the ranch owned by George Lucas to steal a copy of Star Wars: Episode I before it's released, in order to fulfill a dying friend's wish.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz.
9) Nine
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With only a week left before shooting begins on the filming of his latest movie, world famous film director Guido Contini is desperately searching for a way to overcome his creative block. Escaping to a seaside resort, he attempts to restore the equilibrium to his personal and professional existence by drawing inspiration from the women in his life.