Molly Parker
Author
Language
English
Description
"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 95 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This controversial and daring film from director Lynne Stopkewich (Kissed, The L Word) focuses on a young, married woman who seduces the faceless men that pass through her stifling world. Feeding her growing desire to test the waters between emotional pleasure and pain, she dives deeper into her own unrealized darkness, uncertain whether she will survive the Suspicious river.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
Formats
Description
While her mom sees Madeline as a fragile, emotional teen, the director of her theater workshop sees her as a raw talent with a troubled history that can be exploited for her art. Before long, Madeline's loyalties are torn between mother and mentor. Nominated for the Best of Next! Award at the 2018 **Sundance Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Festival**. Nominated for Best Female Lead and Best Cinematography at the **Film...
4) Deadwood
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The once-lawless frontier settlement has grown into a town on the threshold of South Dakota's statehood and modernization. Still, the past isn't easily dismissed as old feuds are revived, sins recalled, and allegiances tested.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and collegue Inez Mulholland gives up...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1876, the Black Hills of South Dakota. In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a throng of misfits to an outlaw settlement where everyone has a price. Welcome to Deadwood ... a hell of a place to make your fortune.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For better or worse, times are changing in Deadwood, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. In an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, they learn the hard way that fortune comes with a price.
8) Jockey
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
Language
English
Description
Set thirty years in the future, this epic reimagining of the original family space adventure finds the Robinsons torn off course en route to what they hoped would be a fresh start on a distant space colony. Against all odds, but with endless hope and extensive training, the family bands together to survive on a dangerous alien planet.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
11) Hollywoodland
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs., 7 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
12) Marion Bridge
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behavior, the youngest of three sisters, Agnes (Molly Parker), returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia determined to confront the past. Her arrival sets in motion a chain of events that allows a family of women to re-connect with the world and each other in their own ways.
13) The wicker man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Edward Malus is a California police officer who takes a leave of absence after witnessing a tragedy on the job. Taking pills to soothe the effects of his post-traumatic stress disorder, Edward receives a letter from his ex-fiance, Willow, requesting his assistance in finding her missing child. She asks him come to Summerisle, a small island off the coast of Puget Sound, and help her find her daughter, Rowan. When Edward starts investigating Rowan's...
14) Waking the dead
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When one man's 70's idealism confronts his 80's aspirations, he begins an emotional rollercoaster that brings ghosts back to life and the ultimate question: does love conquer all, even death?
15) Break a leg
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Max, a talented character actor, is having trouble getting work because of his producer's nephew. Max's ambition gets the best of him and he does the unthinkable.
16) Men with brooms
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a disgraced former curling champion who returns to his hometown in an attempt to lead his former team to glory.
17) Max
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen version (16x9).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Max was a promising young artist who lost his arm in the Great War and with it his ability to paint. Upon his return he opens an acclaimed art gallery that caters to modernism. There he meets another war veteran and struggling artist named Adolf Hitler. Max encourages Adolf to develop his talent. But since Adolf is penniless and is without family or friends, the lure of politics soon wins Adolf's interest over art, setting into motion the most cataclysmic...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Blu-ray & DVD combo ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 blu-ray disc.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time.