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Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (11 hrs., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, an elite rifle company that parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, and suffered heavy casualties. Also includes a documentary about the soldiers in Easy Company.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What happens when an unknown actor who can't catch a break actually catches one? For Andy Millman, who's just broken through with a TV sitcom called When the Whistle Blows, celebrity doesn't necessarily mean happiness.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (12 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For better or worse, times are changing in Deadwood, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. In an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, they learn the hard way that fortune comes with a price.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Andy has been an actor for five years, but thanks to his useless agent, he's never done any real acting. Instead, he is a lowly film extra, making his mark in the background while the stars do their work. His partner in arms is the pitiable Maggie, a fellow extra and a hopeless romantic.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 281 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former Senator Selina Meyer has accepted the call to serve as Vice President of the United States. The job is nothing like she imagined and everything she was warned about. 'Veep' follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
7) The night of
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 524 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet Jonathan Ames: writer, romantic, unlicensed private detective. Moonlighting from his job as a novelist and writer for a New York magazine, Jonathan is looking to jettison some heavy emotional baggage (his girlfriend just dumped him, okay?) through an unusual second career of cracking cases of missing persons, espionage and infidelity in the Big Apple.
Running from his emotional baggage, a novelist and writer for a New York magazine moonlights...
12) Confirmation
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Look behind the curtain of Washington politics, depicting the explosive 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings where Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment. The hearings brought the country to a standstill and became a pivotal moment in American culture forever changing how people perceive and experience workplace equality and gender politics.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hannah and Adam are now in a committed relationship and the two are settling into a newfound domesticity in Hannah's apartment. Hannah is also working on her writing career and concentrating on delivering her eBook to her eccentric publisher. Marnie is adjusting to life after a sudden and traumatic breakup with Charlie. Nearing graduation, newly single Shoshanna masterminds a plan to create a healthy (at least on paper) balance between partying and...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing him to be a man with an unshakeable commitment to peaceful...
15) Lucky Louie
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louie, a part-time mechanic at a muffler shop, spends most of his time at home taking care of his four-year-old daughter, Lucy, while his wife, Kim, the real breadwinner, works as a full-time nurse. This untraditional arrangement can be difficult at times, as Louie is never content with the role of caregiver (despite having no skills or ambition to offer his family or society), and Kim can never quite let go of controlling, supervising and criticizing...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Panjabi
Description
Told through the lens of a love story, this Oscar-nominated documentary examines the tensions between modernism and tradition in Pakistan. The film follows Saba, a young Pakistani woman, who has survived her attempted honor killing by her own family in Gujranwala.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 520 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this final season of Oz, Schillinger has revenge on his mind, Cyril is facing execution, Beecher is hoping for parole, and McManus is finding solace in a meditative maze. The Oz players rehearse for their presentation of Macbeth and the final act.
18) Death in Gaza
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In early 2003, James Miller and Saira Shah went to the Gaza Strip to make a documentary about what it is like to grow up in a conflict zone. They were entering a region that had been in turmoil for more than fifty years. The Gaza Strip, and its Palestinian Arab population, fell under Israel's control following the Six Day War of 1967. This film begins in Nablus, on the West Bank, and examines the lives of three Palestinian children, indoctrinated...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 274 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season two picks up with Amy immersed in gathering evidence against Abaddonn. In the season's eight episodes, Amy enlists the help of journalist Jeff Flender, and as they work together on a searing expose, she dreams of a bigger life and develops romantic yearnings for the handsome, well-travelled reporter.