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1) Mrs. Miniver
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personafies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while she is preparing for her annual flower show despite the...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a piercing drama about a subject he knows well: the costs of living under a repressive, brutal government. Winner of the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, There Is No Evil is a film in four chapters, each telling a different story related to the death penalty in contemporary Iran. The first story concerns a family man who, as we come to see, pays a grave moral price for his comfortable middle-class...
4) Married life
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a late 1940's suburban world, middle-class wives, like Pat, build their lives around their husbands. Pat and Harry seem happy, but Harry confesses to his pal, Richard, that the spark is gone. He plans to leave Pat for vibrant young war widow Kay. Once Richard, a notorious ladies man, gets a look at the platinum blonde, he secretly sets out to win her affections and Harry continues to plots to take Pat out of the picture.
5) Poltergeist
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Freeling family is a typical middle class family living in the peaceful Cuesta Verde Estates. Steve, his wife Diane, 16-year-old daughter Dana, 8-year-old Robbie, and 5-year-old Carol Ann live in a tract house. Soon strange things begin to happen around the house; the pet canary dies, mysterious storms occur, and Carol Ann is summoned to the TV set, where a strange shaft of green light hits her and causes the room to shake. As the curious events...
Series
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (718 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novels by John Galsworthy, The saga is an epic and highly praised series spanning three generations of the powerful Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century. Beneath the family's imposing veneer lies a festering core of unhappy and brutal relationships.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (278 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, two decades after the first series ends, the plot follows the courtship of two teenage Forsyte cousins: Fleur and Jon. Fleur, the daughter of Soames and Annette, and Jon, the son of Irene and Jolyon, meet by chance as youngsters; now Irene's son has fallen in love with the daughter of Soames, the man she despises above all others. Fleur and Jon haven't a clue that Soames and Irene were once married, all they know is that the family...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (426 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is late in the Victorian era, and two branches of an upper-crust family--the "good" Forsytes, headed by well-meaning Old Jolyon, and the "bad" Forsytes, headed by crusty barrister James--are at odds, eternally squabbling. The 'saga' focuses on the younger generations - Young Jolyon, Soames, Winifred, June - and their struggles with emotional repression, the rejection of Victorian mores, and the sea changes taking place as a less repressive society...
Series
Criterion collection volume 429
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
Language
Français
Description
A restless bourgeois French woman finds her eye wandering from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger.
Louis Malle unveiled the natural beauty of Jeanne Moreau in his breakthrough, Elevator to the Gallows. With his follow-up, the scandalous smash The Lovers (Les amants), he made her a star once and for all. A deeply felt and luxuriously filmed fairy tale for grown-ups, perched on the edge between classical and New Wave cinemas,...
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