David Strathairn
1) Holy Silence
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
HOLY SILENCE tells the story of the actions – and inactions – of the Vatican in response to the rise of Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The film focuses on officials who attempted to influence the pope throughout this period.
2) Cold souls
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Giamatti stars as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of Anton Chekhov's Classic Play, "Uncle Vanya." Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls.. Giamatti enlists their service -- only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea. His intention is to reinstate it once he survives the performance but complications...
3) O pioneers!
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1992
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, an immigrant's daughter inherits her family's Nebraska farm and her father's fierce love for the land. Fifteen years later she has made the family a fortune through her canny management of the farm, but has never forgotten the young man who left the prairie to seek his fortune.
4) Howl
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Franco delivers a career-defining performance as poet Allen Ginsberg. Through his search for personal and creative expression, Ginsberg writes *Howl*, and must contend with attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) during *Howl’s* bizarre obscenity trial. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Nominated for Outstanding Film...
5) Nomadland
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, it features real nomads Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells as Fern's mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
6) Hondo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two men. One woman. A land that demanded courage--or death... He was a man etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and ways of staying alive. She was a woman raising a young son on her own on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior...
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Sackett brothers investigate a twenty-year-old mystery as they search for a treasure in gold, attempt to discover whether or not their long-missing father is still alive, and fight to outwit ruthless New Orleans criminals.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1953, and the piece of talking furniture called TV is still a novelty in America's living rooms. On it, Sen. Joseph McCarthy uses fear, falsehooods and belligerence to become arguably the most powerful man in the land. On it , newsman Edward R. Murrow, who's had his fill of the senator's tactics, fights back.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist""* with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in
...Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner. A tribute to tough film noir crime films.
Publisher
Universal Studio
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of one woman's determination to find her husband Harrison, a photojournalist. He is reported as missing while on a dangerous assignment covering a war in a foreign country.
15) The Rivalry
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the history-making Lincoln-Douglas debates. This fierce rivalry between rising legislator Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas tackled some of the day's most passionate and controversial issues - above all those of slavery and the American concept of freedom. As seen through the eyes of Douglas' young wife Adele (Lily
...16) Godzilla
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
17) Fast color
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hunted by mysterious forces, a young woman with supernatural abilities must go on the run when her powers are discovered. With nowhere else to go, she flees back to her family and the farmhouse she abandoned long ago. There, while being pursued by the local sheriff, she begins to mend the broken relationships with her mother and daughter and unearths the depths of the power within her.
18) Godzilla
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Series
Miriam collection volume 5
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jeremy, a big-hearted owner of a small New York diner, tries to soothe Elizabeth's jilted heart with his blueberry pie. But only after going on a year-long cross-country odyssey does she realize love was right at her doorstep all along.