Chris Cooper
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A highlight of the nationwide Lincoln Bicentennial celebration is this unprecedented two-hour documentary on the life and legacy of the man widely considered one of our best – and most enigmatic – presidents. It addresses many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln about race, equality, religion, politics, and depression by carefully interpreting evidence from those who knew him and those who study him today.
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the filmmaker's true story, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz is desperate to be a worldly adolescent. After stumbling through a series of disastrous relationships at boarding school, he runs away. Joined by a local town girl he travels to the mountains of New Hampshhire to search for J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye"
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores substances, from the everyday to the exotic, that can affect human performance; discusses how they work, which are illegal, and how they can be detected; and examines the ethical issues associated.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded the first eight cars. In the ninth rode the body of Abraham...
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Investigates the secret crimes of Father Lawrence Murphy, a Milwaukee priest who abused more than 200 deaf children in a school under his control. The film documents the first known public protest against the pontiff himself. The investigation helped uncover documents from the secret Vatican archives that show the Pope, who must operate within the mysterious rules of the Roman Curia, as both responsible and helpless in the face of evil.
10) The company men
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 1945, Primo Levi, one of the century's great writers, was liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. With the war still underway, he embarked on a thousand-mile journey to his home in Turin, Italy--a strange, beguiling odyssey memorialized in his book, The Reawakening. Sixty years later, director Davide Ferrario set out to follow in Levi's footsteps. Retracing his historic trip, the film weaves a path through a modern Europe...
12) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
14) Capote
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (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) American beauty
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Awards edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
16) Married life
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (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.
17) Walt Whitman
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot, and faithful advocate of democracy. But in his own time, critics denounced Walt Whitman as a "lunatic raving in pitiable delirium". This "American Experience" production tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit...
18) Live by night
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss...
19) Pharaoh's army
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until a soldier's wounds heal. The Union Captain falls for the woman whose husband is off at war, while her son plots revenge on the Yankees.
20) The Muppets
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in Los Angeles, Walter and his friends, Gary and Mary, try to raise ten million dollars to save the Muppet Theater from Tex Richman, a business man who wants to demolish the theater in order to drill for oil.