Joanne Woodward
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Filmmaker Melissa Hacker's mother, Ruth Morley (Academy Award nominated costume designer for The Miracle Worker), was one of the over 10,000 children who were saved in the Kindertransport movement during the Holocaust. On the eve of World War II, as millions of Jews were seeking refuge from Nazi persecution, country after country turned its back--all except for Great Britain who opened its doors to an unspecified number of Jewish children in danger....
Pub. Date
©2000, ©1971.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy New York judge believes he is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed sleuth. When his brother and sister-in-law attempt to get him committed, he is put under the care of analyst Dr. Mildred Watson. To her amazement, she finds there is something very real in his delusion and the two take to the streets of Manhattan to seek out the detective's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty.
3) Sybil
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A landmark, classic drama depicting the extraordinary real life of a young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. Includes the full 3-hour broadcast version, along with over an hour of new exclusive special features.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (181 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970. King: A Filmed Record is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Samson Shillitoe is a genius, a poet and carpet cleaner who ends up getting writer's block, gets into a series of disasters with his wife but keeps on smiling until he dallies with a psychiatrist's wife.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hindle wakes: In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a North England mill town are overthrown by a young woman with ideas far ahead of her time.
Come back, little Sheba: A failed doctor fights to stay sober while his wife pines for her lost youth and her lost dog, Sheba.
8) Paris blues
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two American jazz musicians living in Paris fall in love with two girls on vacation from America. They must decide whether to stay in Paris for their music careers, or move back to America for love.
10) Empire Falls
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 195 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Newman returns as the quick-witted detective he first played nine years before in Harper, who's in deep this time. Hired by an old flame to unravel a seemingly routine blackmail case, he's so far down he may never come up for air.
13) Our town
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
14) Winning
Pub. Date
1969.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A race car driver's obsession to win almost costs him his wife and his friendship with his arch-rival.
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of a Kansas City couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, whose lives are affected in different ways as their children grow up and leave home, and more adventurous friends bring new ideas into their home. Mrs. Bridge questions the life she has led, but her husband remains a firm believer in family and home, regardless of the changes in the world around him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 515
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Val Xavier is a guitar-strumming drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a Southern small-town variety store run by Lady Torrance, who's lonely, sexually frustrated, and abused by her vile, deathly ill husband, and who proves as much a temptation for Val as local wild child Carol, who tries to seduce him.
17) Rachel, Rachel
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Cameron is a 35-year old school teacher living in New England. Her life is small and safe. She has no man in her life and lives with her mother. She wants to do anything to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she has to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the biggest high-stakes poker game in the West begins, a compulsive gambler turned homesteader is drawn into the game. With the entire family fortune at stake, he suffers a heart attack when dealt a winning hand. His wife steps in to play his hand.
19) Pale male
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bold and daring red-tailed hawk, nicknamed Pale Male, lives on the cornice of a 4th floor window of an apartment building on 5th Avenue, in the heart of New York City. Watch as Pale Male mates, breeds, and teaches his offspring to fly. This is truly an affirmation of the magical relationship of humans and nature.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.