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1) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1941]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (119 min., 113 min.) : sound, black and white, color with b & w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
16 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 portable plastic container
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A collection of the American Film Institutes top ten movies of all time in one convenient box for binge watching. Titles included: Schindler's List (Rated R), the Graduate (Rated PG), Lawrence of Arabia (PG), the Godfather (Rated R), On the Waterfront (Not Rated), Casablanca (Rated PG), the Wizard of Oz (Rated G), Singin' in the Rain (Rated G), Citizen Kane (Rated PG), Gone With the Wind (Rated G)
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (665 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Detroit": Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
"The hurt locker": During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
"Point break": An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
"The...
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (742 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Enjoy six Academy Award winners. Titles included Argo, Birdman, Green Book, The Shape of Water, Slumdog Millionaire and Spotlight.
"Argo": Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
"Birdman": A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 408 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized black working- class citizens to wield their political...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
The pressures of fame have put superstar singer Noni on the edge, until she meets Kaz, a young cop who works to help her find the courage she needs to develop her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be. Nominated for Outstanding Motion Picture by the **Image Awards**. Winner of the Artistic Achievement Award and the Emerging Artist Award at the **Chicago International Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Achievement in Music...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jenny Wolf’s murdered father leaves her in charge of a billion-dollar empire—and a family more ruthless than Succession's Roys and Yellowstone’s Duttons. The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head–thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she has a murdered father to avenge—if...
8) The Post
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the social fabric of life in rural India disintegrates in the late 1990s, journalist Manav Banerjee moves with his pregnant wife to the town of Orissa in the hope of a better life and the promise of a lucrative career. When speculation mounts that local Australian missionary Graham Staines is illegally proselytizing leprosy patients, Manav agrees to investigate undercover for the newspaper. What he finds is a series of revelations that are difficult...
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in The French Dispatch.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and wither ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The town of Lynnfield is up in arms over the local newspaper running excerpts of a scandalous new novel by Caroline Adams, The Sinner. What they do not know is that Caroline Adams is indeed a local girl"--Warner Archive Collection website.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades beforehand. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including race, religion, age, gender,...
13) A time to dance
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[DVD version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the story of Abby and John Reynolds, a married couple who have been together since their days as high school sweethearts, when John was a football hero and Abby dreamed of becoming a writer. Now in their forties, Abby is a restaurant critic for a local newspaper and John is a football coach at their son's high school. Though their seemingly perfect marriage is the envy of their peers, the truth is that they have fallen out of love.
14) The glass key
Series
Publisher
Turner Classic Movies
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During a campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associates with the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial situation of The Observer to force the publisher Clyde Matthews...
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'
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