Telefilm Canada.
1) Firecrackers
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of Lou and her best friend Chantal as they plan to get out of their isolated, run downtown and move to a city far, far away. When Chantal's unstable and possessive ex violates her during a night of partying, the girls decide to exact their revenge on him through a night of vandalism and debauchery. The consequences of their actions are devastating, threatening the girls' chances of ever leaving.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With her father in jail and her mother absent, Alison Miller is the matriarch of the family watching over her only sibling Brandon. On the anniversary of their father's crimes, their family is pushed to the limits: a dead man has been found in a trailer park and Brandon is missing from the scene of the crime. Alison must find Brandon and unearth the truth before he ends up behind bars or inside a casket.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 8
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
After a violent marital argument resulting in Antoine's death, Lucy discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit.
4) Trigger
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the classic film 'My Dinner with Andre'. The story of two lifelong friends, Victoria and Kathryn, who started a neighborhood band together. Ten years after their band, Trigger, came to an end, the dysfunctional duo join forces once more for a benefit concert in Toronto. After their decade-long estrangement, the two women come together for dinner, the concert, and the after-party, with the chance and hope of recapturing their once-magical...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It explores the real story behind the Oscar-winning film Argo. In this gripping documentary, the story of the Canadian Caper is told by the man who knows it best Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, who hid the six Americans and obtained the counterfeit documents that allowed them to make their dramatic escape from Tehran.
6) Indian Horse
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better opportunities, but no matter how far Saul goes, the ghosts...
8) Crash
Series
Criterion collection volume 1059
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Language
English
Description
A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James, and an enigmatic doctor, Helen, brings them, along with James's wife, Catherine, together in a crucible of blood and broken glass, and it's not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons.
9) The nest
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel, the couple has to...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
"Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan ... travels with one couple who have embarked...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth."--Container.
13) Best sellers
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled, and hasn't written a new book since.
14) See for me
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of thieves break into the luxurious, secluded mansion Sophie is house-sitting. Sophie, a visually impaired former skier, must rely on Kelly, an army veteran living across the country, to help her fight back.
15) Babar, the movie
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The young Babar, King of the Elephants, must save his homeland from certain destruction by Rataxes and his band of invading rhinos.
16) Daydream nation
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When high school student Caroline Wexler moves to a strange small town with her father, she becomes embroiled in a love triangle between one of her teachers and one of her classmates.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac accepts a U.N. peacekeeper position in postwar Bosnia, she discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost. With masterful acting and a heart-racing plot, an acclaimed film inspired by actual events.
18) BlackBerry
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The "true story" of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BLACKBERRY is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([4] pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army -- made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas -- took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops, and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Fighting for indigenous Mexicans to regain control over their lives and the land, the Zapatistas and their charismatic leader, guerilla poet Subcomandante Marcos, began sending...