Oliver Platt
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After she is diagnosed with cancer, suburban mom Cathy Jamison tries to find the humor in the disease. Contains the following thirteen episodes: Pilot; Summer Time; There's No C in Team; Playing the Cancer Car; Blue-Eyed Iris; Taking Lumps; Two for the Road; Happy Birthday, Cancer; The Ecstasy and the Agony; Divine Intervention; New Beginnings; Everything That Rises Must Converge; and Taking the Plunge
3) Henry Ford
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The television program Henry Ford paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century. Ford's Model T automobile and his five-dollar-a-day wage ushered in the modern world, earning Ford reverence from millions of Americans. Yet many of the changes he wrought deeply troubled the car maker. In frustration, he battled his workers and bullied those who looked up to him,...
Publisher
Insignia Films
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammed Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the dawn of forensic investigation, focusing on a number of cases of death by poisoning as well as accidental death by exposure to deadly chemicals. Examines the pioneering efforts of New York's first medical examiner Charles Norris and his assistant, toxicologist Alexander Gettler.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
LeRoy Robert Ripley rose to fame during the Great Depression, transforming himself into an entertainer who mesmerized the nation with his razzle-dazzle blend of homespun Americana and freakish oddities. Over three decades, his franchise grew into an entertainment empire. This is the story of the man who popularized the iconic phrase, and proof of why we still can't resist his challenge to 'Believe it, or not!'
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Suburban mom Cathy Jamison's cancer is in remission, and Cathy is considering drastic life changes, such as assuming a secret identity and adopting a baby. Cathy's husband, Paul, survives his heart attack and becomes a motivational speaker with the help of a sketchy mentor. Andrea embraces her African heritage, while Cathy's son, Adam, finds religion.
10) Casanova
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good graces, and soon finds out she is engaged to Papprizzio, a man...
Author
Publisher
Encore/Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2014, p2002
Language
English
Description
Everything's Eventual: Dinky, a pizza delivery boy, gets hired by a stranger for a unique and awesome job. Autopsy Room Four: When Howard wakes up, he is being rolled into an autopsy room. The Little Sisters of Eluria: Roland is a gunslinger in a deserted town and gets ambushed. Luckey Quarter: Darlene receives a quarter for a tip, and lets that quarter take her for a ride. The Road Virus Heads North: an author buys a creepy painting that was painted...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As the courageous doctors, nurses, and staff of Chicago Med deal with the pulse-pounding pandemonium of the emergency room, heart-wrenching drama impacts them both professionally and personally. With lives on the line every day, the ED team finds themselves on an emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the hospital that gets Chicago's most difficult and challenging cases.
14) Lake Placid
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
An investigative team, armed with state-of-the-art equipment, high powered weaponry and a biting sense of sarcasm, must work together to defeat Black Lake's most ferocious resident: a 30-foot prehistoric crocodile
Publisher
MGM Television Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Coen Brothers Best Picture Oscar Nominee transforms into the season's most talked about TV debut. It features a new "true crime" story and new characters, all chilled in the trademark dry wit, murderous mayhem and "Minnesota nice" of the original classic film. Lorne Malvo, is a manipulative master criminal who changes the life of insurance salesmen Lester Nygaard. Gus Grimly and Molly Solverson are the small-town police officers who join forces...
17) Klansville U.S.A
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
18) One more time
Publisher
Starz Digital/Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake. Matters are complicated when his punk rocker daughter Jude arrives in need of a place to stay and burdened with problems of her own, including a rivalry with her overachieving sister, her own ruinous love life, and, above all, a...
19) 2012
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world.
20) Walt Disney
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Walt Disney was uniquely adept at art as well as commerce, a master filmmaker who harnessed the power of technology and storytelling. This new film examines Disney's complex life and enduring legacy. Features rare archival footage from the Disney vaults, scenes from some of his greatest films, interviews with biographers and animators, and the designers who helped turn his dream of Disneyland into reality.