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Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the first Harry Potter book, this documentary visits the real-life magical history behind J.K. Rowling's beloved classics. With footage from the British Library's exhibition and exclusive access to a priceless collection of artefacts, take a tour around the mesmerizing journey creating this global phenomenon. Includes interviews with J.K. Rowling herself as she examines the most exciting items on display....
Publisher
Noriko & Don Carroll
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nature film of a black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) building her nest on a clothesline belonging to a team of documentary filmmakers. The authors' narration details the mother's efforts at tending her young.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells stories of the most unlikely cross-species relationships imaginable: a chimp bottle-feeding a tiger cub, a giant tortoise snuggling with a baby hippo, a black crow parenting a meerkat. Looks at these remarkable relationships first hand, and through caregivers, biologists, and animal behaviorists. Explores what these cross-species relationships suggest about the nature of animal emotions.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers. Official Selection at the **The New York Film Festival**.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What began as a broadcast performance of H.G. Welles' fantasy, The War of the Worlds, turned into one of the biggest mass hysteria events in U.S. history. American Experience examines the elements that together created this frenzy, including our longtime fascination with life on Mars; the emergence of radio as a powerful new medium; and the creative wunderkind Orson Welles, the twenty-three-year-old director of the drama and mischief-maker supreme....
6) Inkheart
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. Mo has been searching for a long lost book that...
7) Asylum
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Asylum takes place in England, during the high-Freudian days of the 1950s, when psychiatry had started to flex its muscles. Hugh Bonneville is a professional success, but his wife Stella has already exhausted the era's possibilities--she adores her 10-year-old son, but her marriage has long since faded into endless days, gray evenings sipping scotch by the fire, and badly concealed contempt. Hugh has been hired by a sprawling high-security psychiatric...
9) Front runner
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi-time champion jockey to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does he know that the call will set off a lethal chain of events, including the apparent suicide of the jockey and an attempt on Hinkley's own life. Never one to leave suspicious events alone, Hinkley begins investigating the jockey and the races...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, was also the first Crime Scene Investigator. Based on a real surgeon, Holmes was a scientist who used chemistry, bloodstains, and minute traces of evidence to solve the crime. How Sherlock Changed The World details the impact and legacy of the most famous crime fighter in history.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the complex swimming pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect he new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world
12) The Dark half
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Thad, a college professor who moonlights as a writer of pop thrillers under the pseudonym George Stark, finally writes a serious novel, and decides to stop writing shockers. But George Stark has come to life and doesn't want to die. Thad is forced to battle his own creation for the control of the mind which both must share
13) The number 23
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter Sparrow receives a book for his birthday from his wife, Agatha. The first words he reads changes his once placid existence into a whirlpool of psychological torture and mayhem. The book is a chilling murder mystery that seems to mirror Walter's life in dark and uncontrollable ways. The book's main character is a brooding detective named Fingerling who seems to copy Walter's own history. As the book comes to life, Walter becomes fascinated by...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes a look into American author Ayn Rand's background for the ideas and philosophy that inspired and shaped her prophetic novel, Atlas shrugged, and attempts to determine whether America is indeed headed for the disastrous outcome Rand predicted.
Publisher
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (27 min., 42 sec.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Beverly Cleary is internationally known for her characters Ramona Quimby, Henry and Ribsy, Ralph S. Mouse, and others. Her first book, Henry Higgins, was an immediate bestseller, and changed the course of writing for children. Today, more that 91 million copies of her books and read around the world, in 14 languages. In this original documentary, filmed as Beverly Cleary was approaching her 100th birthday, enjoy a rare interview...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 390 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Literature professor Harriet 'Harry' Wild is adjusting to retirement when she's mugged. While recovering at the home of her son, a detective in the Dublin police, Harry gleans a clue for his current case. But when she's rebuffed, Harry decides to solve the crime herself. Recruiting an unlikely young sidekick, she finds a new path as a private investigator.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1,080 min.) in 3 containers : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 209 pages ; 22 cm).
Language
English
Description
Professor John M. Bowers discusses why some works and not others become part of the literary canon. He examines the context of the works, and how academic curriculum perpetuates and changes the development of the canon.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1,440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 306 pages ; 22 cm).
Language
English
Description
In this course, you'll sample some of the greatest literary expressions the world has known and experience storytelling in its many forms, including poetry, drama, and narrative.
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