Susan Sarandon
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Presents timeless treasures from the world of poetry, including classics by William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Langston Hughes and William Carlos Williams. Let the ryhmes and rhythms transport you and encourage your child to develop a lifelong love of the music of words.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The firm: A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
The chamber: Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam...
164) Our friend, Martin
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Authentic historical footage is blended with colorful animations as students learn about the civil rights leader who challenged all Americans to turn his dream of freedom into reality.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Wall Street: A financial wizard who lures an ambitious young broker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage in this gripping morality tale about the American dream gone wrong. (1987).
Wall Street: money never sleeps: Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with...
166) Cradle will rock
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
A kaleidoscopic look at the extraordinary events of 1930s America, from high society to life on the streets in Depression-era New York City.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. Shock treatment: A mixture of fantastical rock opera and horror movie spoof. A couple of ordinary kids have car trouble one dark and rainy night and knock on the door of a looming Gothic mansion. They are stunned to learn that they have stumbled into an ongoing convention of kinky characters, hosted by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist from the planet Transsexual. Disc 2. Supplemental. Deleted musical scenes, outtakes, Rocky on VH1, alternate...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Bull Durham: The baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Durham Bulls' new catcher "Crash" Davis punches out the cocky young pitcher, "Nuke" LaLoosh, he's just been hired to train. Matters get even more complicated when sexy Annie Savoy informs both men that each season she chooses one player to share her bed-- and Nuke and Crash are this year's "draft picks!"
Dances with wolves: Dances with wolves: Story of a Civil War hero (Costner)...
169) Little women
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Classic story by Louisa May Alcott about the March family of four daughters, a strong mother and a father away during the Civil War.
170) Dead man walking
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Honoring the request of a lonely and desperate man, Sister Helen Prejean writes to Matthew Poncelet, the condemned killer of two teenage lovers, and is wholly unprepared for the relationship which follows. When the date is set for Matthews execution, he asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she complies. As she comes to see the terrfied human beneath Matts brash, unrepentant facade, she becomes increasingly disturbed, not only by his terrible...
Language
English
Description
Beowulf: In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages.
The lovely bones: When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful...
172) Little women
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Films that draw on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life.
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sweeney Todd: Based on the award-winning musical, this is the story of a man who was unjustly sent to prison and now, with the help of his diabolical meat-pie-making neighbor, uses his barber shop to get his revenge.
Hairspray: In 1962 Baltimore, chunky Tracy Turnblad dreams big, hoping to land a gig on the see-and-be-seen TV teen-scene hit The Corny Collins Show, to win the heart of the nicest and cutest boy in school, and to strike a blow for civil...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The chronicles of Narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe (PG) (2005) (132 min.): "When four siblings walk through a magical wardrobe that leads them to the mystical land of Narnia, they find themselves charged with saving the land and its inhabitants from a cruel queen and her icy curse"--Container insert.
Descendants (TV-G) (2014) (112 min.): "In the present-day idyllic kingdom of Auradon, soon-to-be-king Ben, the son of King Adam and Queen...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Bail out: Three down-on-their-luck bounty hunters promise to deliver the daughter of a millionaire to trial on drug charges.
Somewhere tomorrow: A professional guardian angel has been transported to Earth to help a young woman.
Cuba crossing: An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
When the bough breaks: A detective and a child psychologist investigate a child molestation ring that uses a center for troubled children as a front.
Crossbar:...
180) Faerie tale theatre
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This award-winning series brings to life 26 of the most magical classic fairy tales of all time, now digitally remastered.