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1) Sink or Swim
Author
Language
English
Description
There's a thief in town, and all signs point to twelve-year-old Charlie Drinkwater. Once you spontaneously morph into a giant mutant dinosaur in the middle of the school day, people will suspect you of just about anything. Charlie's teachers decide that all he needs is a little discipline, so they make him join the swim team. The only problem is, Charlie is terrified of the water. (He's terrified of a lot of things.) Charlie and his friends vow to...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The first feature-length appreciation of the life and work of Eva Hesse, one of America's foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement. Dying of a brain tumor at age 34, she had a mere decade-long career that is dense with complex, intriguing works that defy easy categorization.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An oral history of a definitive era in television pays tribute to the producers, actors, and programs that established new understandings of broadcast networking, sharing insider perspectives on how NBC subsequently lost its dominant standing.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Almost no one's ever heard of flamboyant, would-be Broadway director Corky St. Clair's hometown of Blaine, Missouri. But Corky fully expects Blaine will be his ticket to Broadway when he writes, directs, choreographs and costumes a local show celebrating Blaine's 150th anniversary in this hilarious comic spoof.
5) The Majestic
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jim Carrey stars as Peter Appleton, a Hollywood screenwriter who, in 1951, receives a summons to testify before the feared House Un-American Activities Committee. But Appleton accidentally crashes his car, develops amnesia and ends up in a small town. His remarkable resemblance to a missing World War II hero, Luke Trimble, causes the residents, including Luke's girlfriend, to rejoice at his "homecoming." The soldier's father (Academy Award winner...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
President Richard Graves, a former two-term POTUS, embarks on a Don Quixote-like quest to right the wrongs of his administration and reclaim his legacy 25 years after leaving the White House. With topics ranging from immigration to gay rights, foreign policy to public funding for arts and sciences, Graves holds nothing sacred as he unspools some of his administration's proudest victories.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After both her career and relationship hit the skids, Imogene is forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother. Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom, and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed.
9) 2010
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A joint U.S.-Soviet space mission intercepts the Discovery ship and witnesses a cosmic revelation
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect mankind's greatest...
11) Georgia O'Keeffe
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After moving to New York and marrying philandering photographer Alfred Stieglitz, American artist O'Keeffe tires of his cheating ways and relocates to Taos, New Mexico, where she discovers the scenery that will inspire her most beloved works
14) Jakob the liar
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish cafe owner invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances to keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants
15) Howl
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Franco delivers a career-defining performance as poet Allen Ginsberg. Through his search for personal and creative expression, Ginsberg writes *Howl*, and must contend with attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) during *Howl’s* bizarre obscenity trial. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for Outstanding Film...
16) A mighty wind
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Three 1960s-era folk groups reunite for a memorial concert in honor of their former manager
17) Capote
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Author Truman Capote develops a close relationship with murderer Perry Smith while researching his celebrated book In cold blood
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the complex swimming pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world
19) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When murder occurs during a hunting party at an opulent English manor, the all-seeing, all-hearing servants know that almost everyone had a motive
20) Isle of dogs
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.