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1) The visitor
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen and full screen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship...
2) Arranged
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"[C]enters on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages."--www.imdb.com
3) The Wiz
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dorothy is a 24-year-old Manhattan kindergarten teacher who is whisked away from her inner-city neighborhood via a snowstorm to the mysterious land of Oz. Oz is a sprawling, decaying, nightmarish, and dangerous megalopolis that resembles the physical characteristics of New York City.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher with a can-do attitude at New York's inner city Calvin Coolidge High. Crowded classes, broken windows, lack of chalk and books are only a few of the problems she will have to face.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former Sweathog Gabe Kotter returns to his alma mater, Brooklyn's James Buchanan High School to teach a new generation of Sweathogs, a group of supposedly unteachable, under-achieving and incorrigible students. They are: Vinnie Barbarino, the group's wise-cracking leader; Juan Epstein, a Puerto Rican Jew; dimwitted Arnold Horshack; and cool Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington. Gabe tries to reach out to these students by relating his own experiences to...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD)(573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former Sweathog Gabe Kotter returns to his alma mater, Brooklyn's James Buchanan High School to teach a new generation of Sweathogs, a group of supposedly unteachable, under-achieving and incorrigible students. They are: Vinnie Barbarino, the group's wise-cracking leader; Juan Epstein, a Puerto Rican Jew; dimwitted Arnold Horshack; and cool Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington. Gabe tries to reach out to these students by relating his own experiences to...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 816 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former Sweathog Gabe Kotter returns to his alma mater, Brooklyn's James Buchanan High School to teach a new generation of Sweathogs, a group of supposedly unteachable, under-achieving and incorrigible students. They are: Vinnie Barbarino, the group's wise-cracking leader; Juan Epstein, a Puerto Rican Jew; dimwitted Arnold Horshack; and cool Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington. Gabe tries to reach out to these students by relating his own experiences to...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (553 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former Sweat-hog Gabe Kotter returns to his alma mater, Brooklyn's James Buchanan High School to teach a new generation of Sweat-hogs, a group of supposedly unteachable, under-achieving and incorrigible students. Gabe tries to reach out to these students by relating his own experiences to the students, but is often hindered in his efforts by cantankerous vice-principal, Michael Woodman.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York schoolteacher April Epner hits a midlife crisis when her husband unexpectedly abandons her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her eccentric biological mother, who wishes to become the mother to April she never was in the past. Then April begins courting the divorced dad of one of her students. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in ways she had never imagined.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (404 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (404 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
12) The Wiz
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
[30th anniversary ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 compact disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
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Description
Dorothy is a 24-year-old Manhattan kindergarten teacher who is whisked away from her inner-city neighborhood via a snowstorm to the mysterious land of Oz. Oz is a sprawling, decaying, nightmarish, and dangerous megalopolis that resembles the physical characteristics of New York City.
Publisher
Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This drama is based on events in the life of Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. Clark uses persistence and unconventional methods to reach his students and encourage them to reach their full potential.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher, April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandons her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...
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