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Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
On the outskirts of the city, a car is riddled with bullet holes, some the size of a fist. You'd think it was a gangland shooting, but these bullets were fired by the police, and the passengers were unarmed teenagers. In Rio de Janeiro, more than 16, 000 civilians have been killed in police operations over the past twenty years, all in the name of self-defense. This powerful and disturbing film follows the mothers of these victims as they fight for...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costa’s VITALINA VARELA stars nonprofessional actor VITALINA VARELA in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has travelled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner...
5) Slip & fall
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Danny's parents are dead and he lives in a trailer with his Grandma who recently was scammed into spending all of his money buying a massive satellite dish that gets 7400 channels, tips the trailer and causes him to sleep at a 30-degree angle. Now, leave those petty problems aside because he can't pay for his final semester of law school and his life is pretty much over. The trailer company is foreclosing and his law school won't allow another loan...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (15 hr., 55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wife and mother boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal. In Season 3, Alicia continues balancing her professional and personal lives as she strives to provide a stable home for her children in the midst of separating from her husband and contemplating finally giving in to her feelings for fellow lawyer Will Gardner.
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 645 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dangerous. Shocking. Mesmerizing. That's the final verdict on ABC's How to get Away with Murder, the sexy ensemble drama where brilliant and seductive Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) dominates her classroom as powerfully as she dominates the courtroom. Each year, Annalise chooses a handful of top law students to assist her with her high-profile, albeit morally ambiguous, court cases. But the lines between defending and committing murder soon begin...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From Academy Award®-nominated director Joe Berlinger comes a revelatory documentary that follows the trial of infamous gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, using it as a springboard to examine accusations of corruption within our nation’s justice system. Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, Anita reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, the film is both a celebration of Anita Hill's legacy and a rare glimpse into her private life with friends and family, many of whom were by her side that fateful day 22 years ago. Anita Hill courageously speaks openly and intimately for the first time about her experiences that...
Author
Language
English
Description
A 15-year quest to expose the underworld of sexual exploitation and trafficking leads reporter Chelo Alvarez-Stehle to the windswept beach where her childhood ended, and family secrets began. As she documents the transformation of a sex-trafficking survivor, Chelo undertakes a parallel journey of healing and introspection, and sets out to shatter the silence about sexual abuse in her own life.
11) Screwball
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounting the high-profile doping scandal that rocked Major League Baseball, SCREWBALL takes us into the surreal Miami underworld that provided performance-enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez and other star players. Steroid peddler Anthony Bosch's medical credentials may be lacking, his storytelling skills are first rate as he hilariously details the rise and fall of his “health clinic”, including mob connections, financial chicanery,...
12) At the Ready
Language
English
Formats
Description
For many teenagers, the sound of gunshots ringing through the halls is their worst nightmare, but for criminal justice students at Horizon High, outside of El Paso, it's the first step toward achieving their American Dream. Home to one of the largest law enforcement education programs in the region, students train to become police officers and Border Patrol agents. At the Ready follows three Mexican-American students as they embark on such a career...
14) High Landz
Author
Language
English
Description
A story of pure journalism in the marijuana field. Luka, a Ukrainian journalist went on an adventure to remote California mountains to find out about the lifestyle of west coast's finest weed growers. Accepted into a circle of outlaws, he discovers that even with the cannabis laws in place, police and feds are still performing raids..
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (214 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tara Rafferty is a high-flying solicitor living an apparently charmed existence with her good-looking law-partner fiancé Eric. But when she discovers Eric is cheating on her with a colleague, she decides to go it alone and start her own law firm.
16) The rover
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a world ten years following the collapse of society, the rule of the law has disintegrated and life is cheap. Hardened loner Eric travels the desolate towns and roads of the outback. When a gang of thieves steals his car they leave behind a wounded Rey in their wake. Forcing Rey to help track the gang, Eric will go to any lengths to take back the one possession that still matters to him.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 550 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat after an attempt to reunite with his long lost daughter. But it's no longer the safe haven he left behind: Danny has been transferred to Melbourne, replaced by a new Senior Constable who seems hell bent on making Blake's job as police surgeon as difficult as possible. Blake's old nemesis Patrick Tyneman has called in the help of some powerful men to keep an eye on Blake. And of course there are the strange and...
18) Monster-in-law
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of looking for Mr. Right, Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini finally finds the man of her dreams, Kevin Fields, only to discover that his mother, Viola, is the woman of her most unpleasant nightmares. Viola is a recently fired news anchor who is afraid she will lose her son the way she has just lost her career, Viola becomes determines to scare off her son's new fiancé by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.
19) The Seven Five
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the crack cocaine explosion of the late ₁80s and early ₂90s, Michael Dowd, a New York City police officer, brazenly led a crew of crooked cops to build his own empire in East New York. Labeled ₁The Dirtiest Cop Ever,₂ Dowd turned the department₂s 75th Precinct into a den of corruption, both protecting and robbing drug dealers while lining his own pockets to the point of bursting with cash and drugs.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (280 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A spoof of crime documentaries about the arrest and trial of a beloved poetry professor from a small town in South Carolina, who is accused of brutally murdering his wife, and the young Northeastern lawyer hired to defend him.
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