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Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016, 1941.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A zealous newshound returns from World War I juiced to start his own sensation-stoked rag and strikes a devil's bargain to bankroll it with a well-heeled racketeer. The mobster will be a silent partner, until the bulldog editor starts exposing his illegal activities, resulting in menacing retribution that catches others in its blowback, including a fellow veteran-turned-novice-reporter, a blackmail-blighted songbird, and a long-suffering, lovestruck...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
English
Description
When a publishing mogul buys a Boston underground newspaper and promises changes that will compromise its aggressive political stance in favor of more 'lifestyle' articles, it becomes clear to the freewheeling and free thinking employees that their carefree days are behind them.
4) Newsies
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
5) Park Row
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Limited edition collection.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1880s New York, a dedicated journalist starts a new newspaper despite opposition from larger organizations, a drama film.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (326 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of films starring Will Rogers with some of his most beloved performances.
Life begins at 40: In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
In old Kentucky: Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and...
7) Hitch
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hitch is New York City's greatest matchmaker. Love is his job and when Albert Brennaman wins the heart of gorgeous society heiress Allegra Cole, Albert has Hitch to thank. So when tabloid columist Sara Melas decides to uncover the secret behind the relationships unlikely sucess, she's shocked to discover that Alex Hitchens, the charming young man she's been dating, is the legendary date doctor himself. Exposed in a front-page scoop, it's now up to...
8) Newsies
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Twentieth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed find the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
Series
Criterion collection volume 245
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages ; illustrations).
Language
Français
Description
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good in life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as both acts of revenge and kindness render him front-page news. Portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies.
10) La dolce vita
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
11) Citizen Hearst
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst's media empire included 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations and 13 magazines. Nearly one in four American families read a Hearst publication. His newspapers were so influential that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Winston Churchill all wrote for him. The first practitioner of what is now known as 'synergy,' Hearst used his media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Deluxe Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (270 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
Call it murder: The foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion. On the night of the execution, his actions come back to haunt him.
Back page: A young reporter leaves her job at a big city newspaper for a position as the editor of a newspaper in a small California town. Political complications ensue as she struggles to keep the paper from being forced out of business.
Woman...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gain unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, see the media industry transform at its time of greatest turmoil. Writers like Brian Stelter, Tim Arango, and David Carr track print journalism's metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent. Includes interviews,...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (approximately 229 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fast and loose: When a wealthy man's daughter abandons her family's aristocratic lifestyle for a humble car mechanic, and his son begins to keep company with a chorus girl, he will do anything to shoot down Cupid's arrow.
Man of the world: Michael Trevor and his partner run a tabloid in Paris and make their living blackmailing rich Americans. When he falls for the niece of one of his targets, he vows to leave behind his selfish ways to be with her.
No...
Series
Publisher
Powerhouse Films Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (532 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + + 4 booklets.
Language
English
Description
It happened in Hollywood: While hospitalized, young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart's career. Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star.
Adventure in Sahara: The cruel commander of a French Foreign Legion outpost drives his men to mutiny.
Power of the press: During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Physical Desc
15 Blu-rays (approximately 1,885 min.) : sound, color, and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets.
Language
Italiano
Description
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to...
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