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1) Alias Grace
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Based on the award-winning novel by Margaret Atwood and inspired by true events, Alias Grace tells the story of Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a young, poor Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who - along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan) - finds herself accused and convicted of the infamous 1843 double murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear (Paul Gross), and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin).
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fact-based bio of early film director-producer, Bill Tilghman. Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp, was confronted by an emerging era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are as likely to tote a tommy gun as a six-gun. When he turned to films, he was determined to make authentic Westerns, rather than the fakery of Tom Mix & other Western movie stars of the day. The only problem was that no one wanted to see his non-stars...
4) Limelight
Pub. Date
[2012], 2011.
Language
English
Description
As the owner of legendary hotspots like Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA, Peter Gatien was the undisputed king of the 1980s New York City club scene. The eye-patch-sporting Ontario native built and oversaw a Manhattan empire that counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined the image of an era in New York.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Following his father's suicide, director Jonathan Holiff discovers hundreds of letters and audio diaries, including recorded phone calls with Johnny Cash during his crazed pill-fueled 1960s, triumphs at Folsom and San Quentin, marriage to June Carter, and his conversion in the early 1970s to born-again Christian."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"... explores Washington's early military career in the French & Indian War, his romances, his family life, and his management of Mount Vernon, and connects these experiences to his actions in the Revolution and his two terms as the first President of the United States"--Publisher website.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Joe Wilson returns to his hometown of Oil City, Pa., after his wedding announcement appears in his small hometown newspaper causes controversy, and he receives a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen who is being tormented in school. Challenges viewers to rethink their values and close the gaps that divide communities on this controversial issue.
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