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Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainemnt
Pub. Date
2005
Description
For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt was America's most powerful woman. Drawing on interviews with her closest relatives, friends, and biographers, as well as rare home movie footage, the film reveals the hidden dimensions of one of the century's most influential women.
3) BlackBerry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"It's 1996, and Mike Lazaridis and his business partner and best friend Douglas Fregin are on the edge of creating the world's first smartphone. Unfortunately for them, they are less business savvy than they are tech, and struggle to keep their company, Research in Motion, afloat. Everything changes when cunning businessman Jim Balsillie agrees to join the company, bringing with him the money and experience needed to create and sell a prototype of...
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Studios Canada
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Academy award winning director Oliver Stone presents a breathtaking new cut of his sweeping epic film Alexander, the true story of the world's greatest warrior. Using footage never seen and dramatically reshaping dozens of scenes, he brings to life the overpowering forces and fierce personalities that forever changed history.
Series
Black American experience volume 1
Publisher
TMW Media Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Profiles the life and work of African-American journalist, Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), a community organizer, grass roots leader and precursor of the modern civil rights movement who waged a relentless public battle against the injustices of lynching and violence against Blacks.
8) Dumb money
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world's hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill, who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Elgar: A partly dramatized account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar.
The Debussy film: An impression of the music and life of the French composer Claude Debussy.
Always on Sunday: An interpretation of the life of French primitive painter Henri Douanier Rousseau.
Isadora : the biggest dancer in the world: A dramatized biography of the American dancer Isadora Duncan.
Dante's inferno: A film showing the private life of the emotional...
12) Great circle
Author
Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
Formats
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
15) Chisum
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A successful cattle rancher battles with corrupt government officials and their stooges in New Mexico's Lincoln County War.
Series
Publisher
In-D Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
This documentary film provides a portrait of the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West, his studio, school of architectecture, and Arizona home. A 52 min. segment features Wright's life and career. A second segment of the documentary (30 min.) features Taliesin West.. This dvd is illustrated with rare archival drawings and historical photographs from the Frank Lloyd Wright archives. Includes a separate 140 photograph slide show (ca....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to...
19) De-Lovely
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter. The film imagines Porter looking back on his life as a stage show, with past memories taking shape as numbers in an elaborate and elegant musical accompanied by his songs. His personal history is illustrated by these performances, especially the complicated relationship with his wife, wealthy socialite Linda Lee Porter, who is shown as being the main inspiration for his work despite his extramarital...
20) Walk the line
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
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