Robert Redford
Author
Series
New Environmentalists volume 6
Language
English
Description
Stewardship of the land is a central part of the human condition. Unfortunately, in some cases, so is greed. Meet people from California, Congo, India, Australia, Guatemala, and Slovenia whose spirit matches their intent to live healthily.
Author
Language
English
Description
Master of Broadway comedy Neil Simon adapted his hit play about a conservative young lawyer and his off-the-wall bride for this warm film classic. Robert Redford is Mister Straight. Jane Fonda is his new wife, who dedicates her life to the pursuit of fun. As the ecstasy of the honeymoon gives way to the reality of setting up housekeeping in a five-flight walk-up, the harmony of marriage turns to comical discord. The mother-in-law complains meekly....
Author
Series
New Environmentalists volume 7
Language
English
Description
The value of Earth's natural resources changes depending on to whom you speak. Meet people from France, Colombia, Vietnam, South Africa, the Philippines, and Michigan who have circumvented extraordinary challenges to protect the Earth.
24) All is lost
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The rising cost of fuel and the growing commitment to protect the environment have sparked exciting innovations in prefab home construction. Showcasing the unlimited possibilities offered by prefabrication to build incredibly energy-efficient, green homes, Prefabulous World features sophisticated examples of eco-friendly home design in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, the United States, England, Germany, South Africa, and beyond. With floor...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006, 2005]
Language
English
Description
Einar Gilkyson lives a quiet, stoic life as a rancher in Wyoming. His estranged daughter-in-law Jean shows up unexpectedly, broke and desperate, with the grandaughter Einar never knew he had. Jean and Einar learn to put their old grievances aside and make peace, not just with each other but with themselves.
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...
30) Out of Africa
Series
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The story of Karen Blixen, her philandering husband, her struggles with a coffee plantation in Kenya, and her love for the mysterious white hunter.
31) Watershed
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Executive Produced and Narrated by Robert Redford and Directed by award-winning filmmaker Mark Decena, WATERSHED tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and offers solutions for the future of the American West. Can we find harmony amongst the competing interests of cities, agriculture, industry, recreation, wildlife, and indigenous communities with rights to the water? As the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follow the great Colorado River as it reveals the most pressing environmental story of our time, the world's growing shortage of fresh water. Join environmental advocates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Wade Davis as they travel the Grand Canyon.
34) Buck
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Follows Buck Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. He eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with horses through leadership and sensitivity.
35) Jeremiah Johnson
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A man seeks out the solitary life of the mountains in the mid-19th century, learning his skills from a veteran.
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn.
"The best kind of blockbuster...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Grace MacLean and her friend Judith go horseback riding, but their horses slip on ice and slide onto a road, where Judith and her horse are killed. Grace has her right leg amputated, and the incident leaves a trauma on Grace and her horse. Grace's mother seeking Grace's recovery, learns about a horse trainer with a special gift, so she takes Grace and the horse to Montana.
38) The natural
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Roy Hobbs determines to fulfill his boyhood dream of being a baseball superstar; he is making progress when a mysterious woman shatters his dream and later, overcoming physical pain, he has a chance to lead his team to the pennant.
39) Dying to Know
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became a missionary for mind altering drugs, asking us to think for ourselves, igniting a global counter-culture movement, landing in prison after Nixon called him “the most dangerous man in America”. Alpert journeyed to the East becoming Ram Dass, a spiritual teacher continuing...
40) The Great Gatsby
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
The '20s never roared louder than in this sumptuously romantic retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic. Robert Redford stars as Jay Gatsby, who had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), then lost her to a rich boy. But now Gatsby is mysteriously wealthy... and ready to risk everything to woo Daisy back. A winner of two Academy Awards, THE GREAT GATSBY features a stellar cast and an elegant script by Francis Ford Coppola....