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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
62) Helen Keller
Series
Publisher
NEST Family Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Animated biography of Helen Keller, the blind and deaf woman who with the help of teacher Anne Sullivan overcomes her obstacles and ends her isolation in a dark and silent world.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story of the Beam family. When Christy discovers her ten-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter's healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired.
Publisher
Televisa
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
Español
Description
Roberto Gomez Bolaños dreamed of becoming a soccer player or engineer, but over the years he discovered his true vocation, first as a writer and then as an actor, he gave life to several characters, including two of the most popular in the history of Mexican televison.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Paganini is at the height of his career and under the strong control of his manager Urbani, who will risk anything and anyone to bring Paganini to England. Urbani's plan, helped along by a British couple and a newspaper writer Ethel Langham is brought to fruition as Paganini conquers the crowds of London and the hearts of women. When he falls in love with a young singer, Urbani must find a way to separate them and keep his hold on the larger than...
67) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Adele, daughter of French author and patriot Victor Hugo, is beautiful, composed and filled with the same brilliant writing talent as her famous father. However, Adele is driven not by literary aspirations but by love. Impelled by a need that will not be denied, she has run away from home to follow her handsome, womanizing lover across an ocean to wintry Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wild with desire, shell risk everything to renew their brief affair.
70) Drag kids
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Four preteen drag queens come together for the first time to perform the biggest show of their young lives. A touching portrait of four kids chasing freedom and friendship through the art of drag.
71) Unbroken
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
72) Queen of Katwe
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
Publisher
SOFA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three documentary films on two DVDs exploring the rise, music, personality and presence of the man to be crowned The King of Rock 'n' Roll. Center Stage captures Elvis Presley's undeniable physical appeal and unrivaled artistic brilliance.The Man And The Music offers glimpses into Presley's private life and the difficult realities of his unprecedentedfame. From The Waist Up, narrated by U2's Bono, follows Presley's remarkable trajectory to stardom....
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Money, power, politics, drugs, scandal, and fast cars: the incredible story of John DeLorean is the stuff of a Hollywood screenwriter's dreams. But who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man. Interweaving archival footage with dramatic vignettes, loot at a man who gambled everything in pursuit of the American Dream.
75) Blonde
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c2001
Language
English
Description
She was Hollywood's most exquisitely packaged and ruthlessly sold sex symbol. Go behind the scenes, drawing a sharp-eyed picture of the movie business to reveal how a shy, lonely girl was transformed into bombshell Marilyn Monroe.
Publisher
Pop Twist
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Winner Takes It All is the multi-Gold Award-winning, definitive up-to-date telling of the Abba story with all four members of the band in interviews and special sequences filmed with them, rare archive, and a feast of Abba songs. It starts with their pre-Abba careers, then the inside story of how they conquered Eurovision (first in Swedish, then in English), and then how they've continued to conquer the world several times over. We see them in...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Using the most current scientific and historical research, coupled with the latest computer graphic technology, this program pieces together the life of Jesus by following in the footsteps of the man in his early years, through his mission and final days. It is a detective story, searching for clues, reading between the lines and uncovering the evidence that is still available after nearly 2,000 years.
79) The lady
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary true story of Aung San Suu Kyi ... the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her husband, Michael Aris. ... Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of political turmoil that continues today"--Container.
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