Kate Winslet
1) Matilda
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress, Miss Trunchbull? Well, she's the worst of all. She is a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded chokey. As for Matilda, she's an extraordinary little girl with a magical mind - and now she's had enough. So all these grown-ups had better watch out, because Matilda is going to teach...
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (8 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This is the short tale of a young boy as he prepares his neighborhood for Christmas. That is until he confronts the one lady who doesn't want the holiday to come at all.
3) Ammonite
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
1840s England, acclaimed fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
4) Labor Day
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno), Labor Day is “a romance to root for”* starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin as two strangers drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story in the unforgettable film that critics are calling “satisfying and deeply touching” Nominated for the Audience Choice Award...
5) Wonder wheel
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 103 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Oscar winner Kate Winslet and directed by Oscar nominee Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, this inspiring film follows one woman's quest to unlock her autistic son's mind. Margret, whose ten-year-old son Keli is severely autistic, has tried a number of treatments to help her son. Consumed by an unquenchable thirst for knowledge about this mysterious and complex condition, she travels from her home in Iceland to the United States and Europe, meeting...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 573 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Fall in love with these classic love stories. Titles included: Pride & Prejudice, Casablanca, Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility and To Have and Have Not.
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The Dressmaker tells the story of the beautiful and talented Tilly Dunnage. After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly. She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, Tilly transforms the women of the town, exacting sweet revenge on those who did her wrong....
10) Deep sea
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An IMAX film exploring the creatures of the sea, including green sea turtles, surgeonfish, the Humboldt squid, and the mantis shrimp.
11) Titanic
Author
Language
English
Description
A timeless love story born of tragedy that created an international phenomenon. This epic masterpiece is destined to sweep audiences anew into the journey of a lifetime.
12) Contagion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 10-year-old girl befriends a beautiful wild fox she names Lily. Bit by bit, in woods and fields blanketed by snow and carpeted by wildflowers, the girl and Lily build an extraordinary friendship as the fox leads her human companion on adventures bold, funny, and even sometimes scary. Narrated by Kate Winslet.
16) Steve Jobs
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.
17) The reader
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Germany, Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously...
18) Swift
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The little orphaned swift Manou is adopted by a seagull couple and struggles for acceptance in the seagulls' colony. When he meets other swifts, he suddenly finds himself torn between two worlds and must decide where he really belongs.
19) Titanic
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (194 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic.
20) Little children
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The lives of seemingly perfect families unravel in the wake of an adulterous affair.