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Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system -- the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across our country.
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The People Speak is a beautiful and moving documentary film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States-one of the best-selling history books in the United States-and Voices of a People's History of the United States, the primary-source companion to A People's History of the United States, edited with Anthony Arnove. The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestos) of rebels, dissenters,...
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3) True grit
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| [1969], [2007] | Special collector's ed. ; Widescreen. | Paramount Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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| c2011 | Paramount Pictures | 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search...
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4) The departed
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| Widescreen ed. | Warner Home Video | 1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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| Two-disc special ed. | Distributed by Warner Home Video | 2 videodiscs (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation...
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| [2007] | Full-screen ed. | 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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| c2007 | Widescreen ed. | 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
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When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Banks in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to finding amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't stand for Banks and what he's done to a friend. Uniting...
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| c1997 | Widescreen ed. | Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.
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| Widescreen. | 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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| [Full screen ed.]. | 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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Jason Bourne has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar. He has been able to reconnect with Marie, the woman he loves. But Bourne is still haunted by vivid dreams and troubling memories of his days as a killer, and he's not really certain how much really happened and how much is a product of his imagination. When Bourne is led out of hiding by circumstances beyond his control, he must reconcile his past...
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| 2011 | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
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| c1999 | Widescreen special limited ed. | DreamWorks Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (ca. 169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
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| 2004 | D-Day 60th Anniversary Commemorative ed. | Distributed by Universal Home Video | 2 videodiscs (169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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The story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion of Normandy beach. Once the men move beyond the beach, Captain John Miller must take his men behind the German lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have already been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own...
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10) The Rainmaker
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| c1997 | Widescreen format. | Paramount Pictures | 1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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A rookie lawyer in over his head on a high-profile case hires a feisty paralawyer who specializes in flunking the bar. Their chances of winning are slim to none, until they uncover a trail of corruption.
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11) Ponyo
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| [2017] | Shout Factory | 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embarkon a fantastic journey of friendship and discovery before Ponyo's father, apowerful sorcerer, forces her to return to her home in the sea. Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the delicate balance of nature and triggers a giganticstorm. Only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.
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12) Downsizing
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| [2018] | [English/French/Spanish dialogue version] | Paramount Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (135 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul and Audrey Safrane decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.
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| [2017] | Amazon Studios | 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
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| c2000 | Widescreen ed. | Paramount Pictures | 1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
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15) Syriana
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| c2006 | Widescreen ed. | Distributed by Warner Home Video | 1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead. Career CIA field operative Bob Barnes is sorting out his midcareer issues -- his bosses want him quietly confined to a desk job. Bryan Woodman, an expatriate in Geneva, becomes the financial adviser to idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir. Corporate lawyer Bennett Holiday is finessing the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. In Prince Nasir's...
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| c2003 | Full screen version. | Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Betrayed by the Army's legendary "Indian fighter" General George Crook, Geronimo leads a small band of warriors in escape, but is pursued by a principled officer, a grizzled army scout, and a gung-ho West Point graduate.
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17) Hereafter
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| c2011 | Distributed by Warner Home Video | 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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This film peers at an intriguing question -- is there an afterlife? -- through the lens of George, Marie, and Marcus, who are each tortured in different ways by the thought of life after death. George Lonegan is psychic. It was once his career: he was "the man who can speak to the dead," with a high-traffic website, and a popular biography. But he fled that life, unable to cope with the emotional burden of his abilities. Marie Lelay is a French TV...
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18) Ocean's eleven
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| [2002], ©2001 | Widescreen ed. | Warner Home Video | 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
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| [2014] | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
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| c2007 | Anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1). | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (167 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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An American intelligence officer's youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him.
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