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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
2) Pygmalion
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When a gang of terrorists invade a campus building, it's up to English professor Joe McCann to save the day in this action packed spoof of Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and countless other action epics."--Container.
5) Wit
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devastating illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
8) Miss Meadows
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (182 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow the exploits of Paul Pennyfeather, whose unfair expulsion from Oxford kick-starts a disastrous series of events, wherein he is by turn a naive teacher, a celebrity bridegroom, a wanted fugitive, and an international white slave-trader.
11) Sluga naroda
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2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Ukrainskiy shkol'nyy uchitel' izbran prezidentom strany.
12) Dancing pirate
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 minutes) : color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
A dance teacher from Boston is tricked into joining a band of pirates, which leads to him being fitted for a noose in California. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, this mix of comedy and rousing dance numbers was described as "light, gay, and charming."
13) Spare parts
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four Hispanic high school students organize a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and big dreams, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
14) Miss Stevens
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stuck at a crossroads in her personal life, it falls on Miss Stevens to chaperone three of her students Billy, Margot, and Sam on a weekend trip to a drama competition. Exploring the fine line between being a grown up and being a kid, this film is about students becoming teachers and teachers coming to realize that the messiness of youth never really goes away.
15) Educating Rita
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1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed...
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 645 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the body count rises, Annalise Keating, Frank, Bonnie and the "Keating Five" dive into a docket of daunting new cases. Meanwhile, the shocking discovery of who killed Rebecca leads into the mystery of who shot Annalise. But instead of answers, this stunning development will set the stage for a series of shocking secrets, bitter betrayals and gasp-worthy revelations that will prove beyond all reasonable doubt, that under the right circumstances,...
17) Around the block
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's about breaking cycles and building dreams. Set in a contemporary, tough, inner-city precinct, this is a story of revenge and triumph, as a teenage boy is torn between his unexpected love of theatre and the disintegration of his family. With encouragement from his unconventional American drama teacher, he confronts his past and eventually takes control of his future.
18) Submission
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student. When lines are crossed, it becomes unclear who is the victim and who is the victimizer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 294
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A strict English schoolteacher is forced into retirement and begins to doubt himself and his life.
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