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1) True women
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, moving story about two fearless women, of friendship, romance, courage and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas plains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
2) 1918
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the gifted pen of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies) comes a touching trilogy of American tales set in early 20th Century Texas. At the height of World War I, Elizabeth and her husband face hard times when her previously disapproving father steps in to take care of her children so her beloved can go off to war. Matthew Broderick heads a powerhouse cast in this remarkable drama, whose characters...
3) Giant
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Two-disc special edition; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife, and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and nouveau-riche oil tycoons.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying a young man of humble prospects, and her parents have not spoken to her since - even though the couple lives in a rooming house nearby, they are struggling financially, and she is pregnant. The story of unselfish love between a man and a woman and the abiding love within a family, this American classic explores the enduring themes of human existence.
5) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After having been missing for four years and presumed dead, Travis emerges from the desert near the Texas-Mexico border and collapses at a gas station. His younger brother, Walt, a billboard artist, takes him to Walt's Los Angeles home where Travis' son, Hunter, has lived with Walt and Walt's wife, Anne, since Travis and his wife, Jane, disappeared. Travis reestablishes a relationship with Hunter, finds Jane and brings about a reunion between Jane...
6) Courtship
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1987.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the gifted pen of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies) comes a touching trilogy of American tales set in early 20th Century Texas. Elizabeth has fallen in love with a young man her father condemns as a "wild boy." No matter how strict and protective, her parents cannot deter their daughter's growing independence. This carefully nuanced portrait of a family in conflict displays a master's feel...
7) Pearl
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trapped on her family's secluded farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and domineering watch of her devout mother. Yearning for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this origin story of X's iconic villain.
Series
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family - and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (576 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A show about a rigid redneckish propane salesman with a good heart and wacky friends and family. All 24 episodes from season 4, 1999-2000.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hank Hill is a propane salesman, his wife, Peggy, is a substitute teacher, and their 12-year-old son, Bobby, who is confused about the ways of life and the world, all live in a blue collar town in Texas.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (436 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science is not always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While a middle-aged Dallas gynecologist whose wife has become mentally ill falls for his sexy new golf pro, chaos surrounds the wedding of his daughter, and his alcoholic sister-in-law arrives with three nieces in tow.
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely friendship blossoms between two ten-year-old boys from different backgrounds during the racially charged backdrop of rural Texas, 1964. Through the years into manhood, prevailing attitudes and the growing civil rights movement severely test their friendship. In the end, they will discover that despite people's differences, it's the memories you make that determine your happiness and peace in life.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (433 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by the Comanche after his mother and sister are murdered, thirteen-year-old Eli McCullough quickly adapts to Comanche life until the tribe is decimated by armed Americans, leaving Eli alone in a world where he is neither white nor Indian.
15) Hud
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
This classic revisionist western explores complex familial relationships as well as the pitfalls of modern capitalism by following the daily life of Hud Bannon (Paul Newman), a young Texas rancher who lives with his cattleman father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) and his hero-worshipping nephew Lon (Brandon DeWilde). Though Hud is an amoral, cold-hearted man, he was celebrated as an iconic anti-hero to the countercultural youth audiences of the 1960s. Winner...
16) Lone stars
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Generous and epic....[Deabler's] Lone Stars takes us through generations of a singular family, whose loves and losses also tell us a story about America itself..."* Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition. But bad fortune and his own prideful spirit have driven him from New York into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I. His adult daughter, Maureen, serves as his assistant, although she has artistic ambitions of her own and is beginning to understand how her own career--perhaps even her life--has become hostage to her driven father's "wild pursuit of glory." When Lamar Clayton, an...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (333 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blue River: Depicts the powerful events that unfold in a small Wisconsin town driving 2 teenage brothers apart when later in life one brother, now a homeless derelict, arrives at the home of his brother, now a successful doctor.
Gone to Texas: The true-life story of Sam Houston, the frontier hero and statesman whose bravery and vision led to the creation of the Republic of Texas.
I will fight no more forever: Shows events that led to the conflict...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version ; Director's cut.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Texas State Police are set to make a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the thousand plus murders and several disappearances over the past couple of years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby's father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally...
20) JL family ranch
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
JL is an old-fashioned, conservative cowboy who owns a large ranch in a small Texas town and is the patriarch of a sizeable family that all take shelter under his roof. He has to battle the outside forces of the modern world that is rapidly creeping into his expanding town in order to maintain possession of his treasured ranch and to keep his family together.
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