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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifty-five years after the publication of "To kill a mockingbird", Harper Lee has published another novel. "Go set a watchman" was written before Lee's beloved masterpiece, as director Mary McDonagh Murphy explains in this update of her 2011 documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird. Her new up date of her film, sifts through the facts and speculation surrounding Lee and both her novels and include's interviews with Lee's sister and...
Author
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filled with the music of Haydn, Schubert, Mozart, and Beethoven, this provocative yet enjoyable film joins the Guarneri Quartet during intimate rehearsals and recording sessions, as well as on tour in Prague, Venice, Baden-Baden, and across the United States.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the woman who inspired the best selling book. This is a documentary that goes out to the island, visits the Lone Woman's campsite and cave, includes an interview with now deceased author Scott O'Dell, and visually captures the adventure that she experienced all those years ago.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's LGBT community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun. Newly restored for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this documentary pries open the closet door, setting free the dramatic story of survival, love, persecution, and resistance experienced by LGBT Americans...
5) Circo
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Gorgeously filmed along the back roads of rural Mexico, Circo follows the Ponce family's hardscrabble circus as it struggles to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering family conflict. Tino, the ringmaster, is driven by his dream to lead his parents' circus to success and corrals the energy of his whole family, including his four young children, towards their singular goal. But his wife Ivonne is determined to make...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the centenary of this revered and seminal national award for literary excellence in journalism and the arts. The riveting tales of the winning artists give an insider's view of how these pinnacles of achievement are selected in the twenty-one categories and how the award has the power to change lives and communities.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling journey to one of the world's most perilous environments. This follows a team of world-class scientists as the explore the West Antarctic Peninsula. In the wake of devastating events like Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, oceanagrapher Oscar Schofield teams up with a group of researchers in a race to understand the climate change in the fastest warming place on earth.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. An inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon, featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, this award-winning documentary follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A snowboarding accident leaves Forrest Allen, age eighteen, trapped inside himself, unable to speak or walk for almost two years. Tom Sweitzer, an eccentric music therapist with a troubled childhood, is determined to help Forrest find his voice.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
200-?
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A chain reaction of objects that applies the principles of cause and effect, gravity, chemistry, water, gas propulsion and vector propagation to produce the chain reaction.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifty years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, To Kill a Mockingbird remains a beloved best seller and quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th century. Mary McDonagh Murphy's Hey, Boo explores the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon and unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, including why she never published again. It also brings to light the context and history of the novel's Deep South setting and the social changes...
13) Maidentrip
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Laura Dekker sets out, camera in hand, on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura now finds herself far from land, family and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom, adventure, and distant dreams of her early youth at sea.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Silver Belles, five tap dancers who performed in 1930's Harlem at the famed Apollo and Cotton Club. Together again, they're dancing to standing ovations and sharing stories of the Harlem Renaissance.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. With courage, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies including Arturo Toscanini and Albert Einstein, Huberman saved nearly 1000 Jews-and guaranteed the survival of Europe's musical heritage.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow one woman's journey as she tries to help her severely autistic son break out of his own mind. Traveling to the United States from her home in Iceland to try to learn more about this complex condition, she meets along the way other families who have similar situations and all are looking for some answers.
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about the Holocaust to facing it head on. Unexpectedly, a nuanced...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, this Sundance documentary brings to light the vital stories of the environmental movement where people fought, and succeeded, against enormous odds.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologican who was one of the first to openly resist Adolf Hitler. Features photographs, archival footage, and interviews with family members, friends, students, and associates of Bonhoeffer, including the last interview with Bonhoeffer's close friend and historican, Eberhard Bethge.
20) Tangerines
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
The story of awakening humanity in the midst of violence. Nominated for an Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film in 2015. An older Estonian man cares for two wounded soldiers from opposite sides of the 1990s-era war in Georgia.