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2) Gandhi
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1982
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Gandhi's adult life, when he led an entire country to freedom, using non-violent methods.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-winning director Robert Redford captures the majesty of the Montana Wilderness and the strength of the American family in this acclaimed adaptation of Norman Maclean's classic autobiography. Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, and Brad Pitt also stars as his brother Paul, an irresistible daredevil driven to challenge the world. Growing up, both boys rebel against their stern minister father. While Norman channels his rebellion into...
4) Pollock
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt;...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Intimate stranger is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds - where the past meets the present, where generations collide, and where the boundaries...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A biographical study of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with footage from some of Rampling's most famous films, this "self-portrait through others" is a revealing look at one of our most iconic screen stars.
Publisher
I.V. Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This DVD includes almost two hours of rare filmed interviews with Keith Richards, from various junctures across his career to date, and during which he waxes lyrical on just about everything, from his musical idols to his distrust of all things inauthentic - and he even throws in a few quips and home-truths about his old mucker, Sir Michael Phillip Jagger. Honest, candid, bawdy or heart wrenching, every emotion is expressed herein and via these many...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
10) Prozac Nation
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Dramatization based on the life of Elizabeth Wurtzel, a young woman with severe depression during her first year at Harvard University as she takes refuge in drugs and sex.
11) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary classic and a landmark in autobiographical filmmaking, 'Sink or Swim' is an unflinching account of the highly charged relationship between a daughter and her father. Through a series of twenty-six short stories, a young girl chronicles the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
13) Beyond the sea
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
The story of singer/songwriter Bobby Darin from nightclubs to stardom.
14) The Doors
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Dramatized biography of Jim Morrison and the musical group which typified the 1960's.
15) Iris
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
16) The aviator
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Depicts the life of Howard Hughes - billionaire, industrialist, movie producer, inventor, aviator - and the love affairs, Hollywood stardom, corporate battles and brilliant aeronautical invention that defined him from the mid-1920s through the 1940s.
18) Funny girl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Depicts the early career of Fanny Brice, her rise to stardom with the Ziegfield Follies and her stormy romance with Nick Arnstein.
19) Shadowlands
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.
20) Miss Potter
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
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