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1) Reel
Author
Series
Hollywood Renaissance volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Neevah Saint is ready for the spotlight. After months as an understudy, this is her night to shine. She never imagined he would watch in the audience. Canon Holt. Famous film director. Fascinating. Talented. Fine. Before she can catch her breath, everything is changing. Neevah goes from backstage Broadway to center stage Hollywood. From being unknown, to having her name on everyone's lips when Canon casts her in a star-studded Harlem Renaissance...
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 39 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tribute to Lucille Ball capturing the qualities that made everyone love this superstar. Includes scenes from her early films, her guest starring on some of the great shows of the golden age of television, and some memorable clips of I Love Lucy.
3) Hemingway
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 300 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the long career of the Bee Gees from their beginnings through their worldwide success in the 1970s to the tragic deaths of brothers Maurice and Andy. Includes new interviews with Barry and Robin Gibb, archival interview footage with Maurice Gibb, videos, TV appearances, and live performances.
Language
English
Description
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. The film chronicles much of his...
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. Director Morgan Neville offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.
8) Dream Horse
Language
English
Description
Experience the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely racehorse bred by small-town bartender Jan Vokes. With little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to raise Dream and compete against the racing elites, becoming a beacon of hope in their struggling community as he rises through the ranks.
Pub. Date
©2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 minutes) : (DVD video) sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Language
Français
Description
For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inside The Mind of Agatha Chirstie: Agatha Christie ranks as one of the most successful writers of all time. Combining rare access to Christie's family and her personal archive, the show gives viewers a never-before-seen look into the late crime writer's fascinating life story.
Agatha Christie's England: retraces the celebrated English writer's footsteps across the United Kingdom. With access to both her family and those who lived with her and knew...
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Since proclaiming himself to the world to be the best in the WWE, CM Punk has fought to prove his statement true. This first-ever documentary focusing on the wrestler called 'The Voice of the Voiceless' traces his path from his early success on ECW to his present position as one of the best wrestlers in the WWE.
12) Angela's Ashes
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
13) Mommie dearest
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this movie's release with exclusive and all-new interviews with Frank Yablans, Rutanya Alda, Diana Scarwid, and Mara Hobel.
Pub. Date
[1995?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brother minister is the explosive and mesmerizing documentary that dares reveal the mystery surrounding the assassination of Malcolm X, a truly American hero. It probes the innocence of two of the convicted assassins, reveals the true identities of the killers, examines the FBI and NYPD clandestine roles in the assassination through recently de-classified documents, and discovers the secret origin of the Nation of Islam and its political and religioius...
15) Beyond the sea
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of America's greatest performers, Bobby Darin lived a rags-to-riches life. He worked his way from shady nightclubs to his dream destination, the Copacabana, where he wowed the crowds with his songs. He was a marvel at singing, songwriting and performing - stealing the hearts of fans everywhere despite the suffering in his own heart.
16) Burt's buzz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shapiro takes us into the reclusive backwoods world of beekeeper Shavitz, still committed to living off the land in Maine, as he has since the 1970s, in a renovated turkey coop with no running water. Shapiro explores Shavitz's peculiar relationship with the company he co-founded with Roxanne Quimby. The birth of Burt's Bees and its emergence as a lucrative brand may be the stuff of legend, but it's also contentious: Shavitz sold his shares decades...
17) Bobby
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An ambitious labor of love from writer/director/star Emilio Estevez, BOBBY attempts to distill the hope, anger, and confusion that gripped the U.S. in the late 1960s. With the civil rights movement still reeling from the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the country embroiled in the confusion of Vietnam, Senator Robert F. Kennedys campaign preached a message of peace and tolerance. In a style similar to the sprawling works of Robert Altman...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Money, power, politics, drugs, scandal, and fast cars: the incredible story of John DeLorean is the stuff of a Hollywood screenwriter's dreams. But who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man. Interweaving archival footage with dramatic vignettes, loot at a man who gambled everything in pursuit of the American Dream.
19) Frost/Nixon
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions...
20) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies.
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