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Forbidden Hollywood collection. Volume three. Disc three [videorecording]
Turner Entertainment Co. ; TCM Archives.
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1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
First, A man stands up during a WWI battle and becomes a hero, but he doesn't get the credit. He becomes injuried and soon gets hooked on morphine, causing him to fall apart when he returns home. He eventually marries, but soon the Depression hits. Last, Tom and Ed are high school students whose parents, thanks to the Depression, have lost their jobs. Wanting to help make money, they set off on the rails looking for work. They finally end up in New York and Ed thinks he might have foud a job.
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Forbidden Hollywood collection. Volume three. Disc two [videorecording]
Turner Entertainment Co. ; TCM Archives.
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1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
First, Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has gone on to become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. After putting her son up for adoption, he becomes a district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. She kills an underling who wants her son dead and is now facing execution. Last, A mistaken arrest, a prison term, and lack of employment leads to a young woman's involvement with gangsters. In a brothel she meets a wealthy lawyer who falls in love with her. He helps her turn her life around, but her past catches up with her. Now she is on trial for murder.
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A force more powerful [videorecording] : a century of nonviolent conflict
a production of York Zimmerman Inc. and WETA Washington, D.C. ; written, produced and directed by Steve York.
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2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
This six-part series tells one of the 20th century's most important and least-known stories-- how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. In South Africa in 1907, Mohandas Gandhi led Indian immigrants in a nonviolent fight for rights denied them by white rulers. The power that Gandhi pioneered has been used by underdogs on every continent and in every decade of the 20th century to fight for their rights and freedom.
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Forever [videorecording]
a film by Heddy Honigmann ; a Cobos Films production in coproduction with NPS.
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A poignant tour of the importance of art in the lives of visitors to the Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters and other artists from around the world.
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Friday night lights. The third season [videorecording]
Universal Media Studios ; Imagine Television ; Film 44.
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4 videodiscs (260 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
In the small town of Dillon, Texas, only one night matters: Friday night. Eric Taylor is the head football coach for the Dillon High School Panthers, the town's pride and joy. Still stressing that the football players win. The town is counting that the team gives them victories. The close-knit residents face new challenges and uncertainties as they deal with the day-by-day pressures of life in transition.
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George Wallace [videorecording]
Turner Network Television ; produced by John Frankenheimer, Julian Krainin ; television story by Paul Monash ; teleplay by Paul Monash and Marshall Frady ; directed by John Frankenheimer.
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2 videodiscs (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
George Wallace was an infamous politician and segregationist. He had a lust for power and status that made him bedfellows with racists and became one of the most destructive and most hated American politicians of his time. Follows George from his early days as a state circuit judge to his presidential run, when he was paralyzed by a would-be assassin.
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The gospel at Colonus [videorecording]
directed [for television] by Kirk Browning ; produced by David Horn & Yvonne Smith ; adapted and directed for the stage by Lee Breuer ; music composed, arranged & conducted by Bob Telson ; a production of WNET/Thirteen, in association with Bioscope, Inc. ; Educational Broadcasting Corp.
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Told from the perspective of a Black Pentecostal preacher and his congregation, this play dramatizes legendary Greek character Oedipus' last days on Earth. Having blinded himself out of guilt, Oedipus makes a solace-seeking pilgrimage to Colonus, the place where he believes he is meant to die. Primarily through song, the preacher and his congregation translate this story of redemption into a Christian parable.
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The greening of Southie [videorecording]
Mercator Entertainment presents ; a Wicked Delicate production ; produced by Curt Ellis ; directed by Ian Cheney.
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1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
"The story of [The Macallen Building,] Boston's first LEED certified residential 'green' building, and the people that made it possible" -- Container.
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A grin without a cat [videorecording]
Arte Editions ; directed by Chris Marker.
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1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p.)
An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels.
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Happily ever after [videorecording]
Viz Pictures presents a Yukihiko Tsutsumi film ; producers, Hiroki Ueda, Yuji Ishida, Shin Nakazawa ; directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi.
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1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
A visually striking, dark comedy that follows Yukie Morita, a devoted wife, and Isao Hayama, her boorish, unemployed ex-gangster husband. Isao has an uncontrollable temper and everyone advises Yukie to leave him, but her love for him is unconditional because he was the one who initially saved her from her misery.
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He's just not that into you [videorecording]
New Line Cinema presents a Flower Films production, a Ken Kwapis film ; produced by Nancy Juvonen ; written by Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein ; directed by Ken Kwapis.
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her. Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to explain the 'signs' to Gigi. Meanwhile, having just left Gigi, Connor calls his girlfriend Anna. She is at the supermarket and runs into Ben. The two exchange numbers, but Ben finally admits that he is married. Ben walks over to the car where his friend Neil has been waiting. Neil asks Ben what that was about. Neil returns home and is greeted by Beth, his girlfriend. Neil doesn' t believe in marriage and Beth can't understand why. Ben meets Janine, his wife at the townhouse. Anna is friends with Mary. Mary is using the Internet to find love.
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I.O.U.S.A. [videorecording]
the Peter G. Peterson Foundation presents ; an Agora Entertainment production ; in association with O'Malley Creadon Productions ; produced by Open Sky Entertainment ; written by Patrick Creadon, Christine O'Malley, and Addison Wiggin ; produced by Christine O'Malley and Sarah Gibson ; directed by Patrick Creadon.
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1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
"I.O.U.S.A. tells the story of America in debt. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal government is critically overextended. With the economy already in shambles, 78 million baby boomers are now expecting retirement benefits from their indebted federal government. Weaving together archival footage, economic data and candid interviews with Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Paul O'Neill, Robert Rubin, Alice Rivlin and Paul Volcker, along with David Walker of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Robert Bixby of the Concord Coalition, the film offers a vivid and alarming profile of America's financial status."--Container.
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