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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This comedy drama is the true story of British Army dentists, Sgt. Peter King and Private Leslie Cuthbertson, a wet-behind-the-ears trainee, who, in 1942, stole a bag of grenades, two revolvers and a set of the best dental equipment that money could buy and went off to invade occupied France on their own, without permission!
Series
Criterion collection volume 257
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Portrays a disgraced President Richard Nixon recording memoirs in an attempt to defend himself and his political legacy.
4) Raging bull
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 129 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A biographical film about psychologically destructive, violent, middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta.
5) Wyatt Earp
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 190 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The biography of the legendary Wyatt Earp, including the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral.
6) Spartacus
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (196 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
7) Wah-wah
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the experiences of actor/director Richard E. Grant during the late 1960s in the British colonial community in Swaziland as that country was becoming independent. Portrays a community occupied with booze and adultery in an attempt to stave off boredom. Follows the divorce of young Ralphie's parents and his adjustment when he returns from boarding school two years later to find that his alcoholic father has married an American stewardess. Shows...
8) Henry & June
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explore the relationships between the writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, and his wife June in Paris 1931.
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1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lou Gehrig, the Yank's great first baseman and the son of poor immigrants, rose to heights of baseball fame-- only to be cut down at the peak of his career by an incurable disease known as ALS.
10) Amazing grace
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A biography of British legislator William Wilberforce, who led a decades-long movement to end the British slave trade.
11) Mask
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but Rusty fights for her son's rights. Rocky eventually falls...
12) W
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States, from his beginnings as a privileged alcoholic to his becoming a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How Christianity turned his life around, how he met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq are featured.
13) Factory girl
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Edie Sedgwick, a beautiful, wealthy young party girl, drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality.
14) Capote
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold Blood." He arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners,...
15) Bobby
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Revisits the night presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in June 1968. Tells the stories of a variety of people present on that fateful night, ranging from Kennedy's campaign staff and volunteers to the hotel owner, employees such as kitchen staff, and various guests.
16) Miss Potter
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
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1 videodisc (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He's the nation's most notorious criminal and is being hunted by the law in 10 states. He's also the land's greatest hero, lauded as a Robin Hood by the public. No one knows of Robert Ford, at least not yet. But the ambitious 19-year-old aims to change that. He befriends Jesse and rides with his gang. And if that doesn't bring Ford fame, he will have to find a deadlier way. Friendship becomes rivalry and...
19) Beyond the sea
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the life and career of American singer-songwriter Bobby Darin, one of the most popular musicians of the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s.
20) Into the wild
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
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