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1) Sittwe
Publisher
Jeanne Hallacy
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Burmese
Description
Banned in Burma (Myanmar), Sittwe is a story about two teenagers from opposing sides of deadly religious and ethnic conflict. The film gives voice to the youth in a deeply divided society, to create space for dialogue about reconciliation. Phyu Phyu Than is a Rohingya Muslim girl and Aung San Myint is a Buddhist boy. Both saw their homes burned down during communal violence in 2012. Five years later, Phyu Phyu Than is languishing in an apartheid style...
2) Sexy Inc
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 36 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Are children being pushed prematurely into adulthood? Sophie Bissonnette's documentary Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence analyzes the hypersexualization of our environment and its noxious effects on young people. Psychologists, teachers and school nurses criticize the unhealthy culture surrounding our children, where marketing and advertising are targeting younger and younger audiences and bombarding them with sexual and sexist images. These...
Publisher
FilmRise
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.
"A warped wonder of a movie about a cannibalistic serial killer's awkward teenage years-it takes twisted to areas few have investigated."--Rolling Stone.
"This film is sensitively wrought. It's credible in its evocation of mid-'70s suburbia. The acting is excellent throughout, and Ross Lynch in the role of Dahmer elicits genuine sympathy for an increasingly lost but not yet monstrous soul."--New...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish; fins and all! This fascinating and lively account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led him to even more innovations and inventions.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color with a black and white sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The autobiographical film is a nostalgic and gently comic remembrance of England during the turbulent Blitz as seen through the eyes of ten-year-old Billy Rohan. While the beauty of the aircrafts and tanks holds endless wonders for the young boy, others know all too well the destruction they bring. Navigating difficult times are mother Grace, who finds herself head of the household when her husband is drafted; Billy's sister, Dawn, whose romance and...
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A video picture book that presents a heartwarming homage to Mister Rogers, following his story through childhood and celebrating him while also encouraging viewers to carry on his legacy of kindness. Includes additional biographical information as well as author and illustrator notes.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An honest retrospective on the early life of John Lennon and the tragedies that shaped his personality and later his music. The film includes rare and previously unseen memoirs along with interviews with some of his closest family, friends, and associates.
8) The pistol
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of 'Pistol' Pete Maravich, a scrawny five-foot-two eighth grader. Though a target of ridicule, he perseveres, with the encouragement of his father and love of his mother, to become college basketball's greatest scorer.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 3 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate. When the elder woman's son arrives with his French maid, everything gets thrown into turmoil.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Formats
Description
Based on the international best seller by Amos Oz, the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories told, become the stories lived.
11) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Italiano
Description
"In his carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nino Rota's classic, nostalgia-tinged score."--Container.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood in the south of France, and a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made new friends and strengthened the unique bond with his father.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Language
English
Description
The now legendary, almost mythical character of Indiana Jones once had a childhood. Every episode starts out with the elderly man that he is in the 1990's getting into a specific situation where he has to tell a story from his past. The stories go back to when he was ten years old and on a world tour with his father, and to his late-teens when he fought in World War I.
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
1998, c1995
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 video disc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of growing up in the segregation-era South, in a community that faced adversity and held together with amazing dignity and grace.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fred Waitzkin, a sportswriter who dreams his 7-year-old son Josh will grow up to play baseball. One day in the park with his mother, Josh displays more than talent, he has a gift. Sensing his son is a future champion, Fred places Josh under the tutelage of a strict chess teacher. But when Josh suddenly starts to lose, his parents must confront their own motivations, and recognize what Josh prizes more than winning; his family's love.
16) The Arbor
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through personal letters and interviews, examines how late playwright Andrea Dunbar's life on the Arbor, the notorious Buttershaw Estate in Bradford, UK, informed her writing, and follows her children as they comprehend the struggles their mother faced.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 203 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The squid and the whale: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s. The patriarch of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but ultimately decided to settled into a teaching job. When his wife discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family. The two teenage sons...
Publisher
White Star
Pub. Date
[1996?]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The program captures JFK's childhood, his tenure as a young Naval officer in WWII, his immersion into politics, his marriage to Jackie, and an intimate look at his years in the White House.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (10 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Frida Kahlo's diary, this story follows the imaginings of the young artist who dreamed of dancing without pain. This beautiful tale includes a brief biography.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
9 videodiscs (726 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Go on spectacular journeys with young Indy as he travels through Europe, Africa and Asia and comes face to face with Vladimir Lenin, Charles de Gaulle, The Red Baron, and other fascinating characters during the turbulent years of World War I.
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