Paul Giamatti
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Explore the astounding abilities of butterflies – 360° vision, deceptive camouflage, chemical weaponry and fantastic flight. Look beyond their bright colors and fragile beauty and follow them on one of the greatest migrations on earth.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his...
5) Sideways
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miles and Jack, reaching middle-age and disappointed at the state of their lives, travel together through wine country a week before Jack is to be married in search of adventure and meaning in their lives.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Go deep into the woods to explore the lives of a unique avian family. Woodpeckers come in 239 species, each one a colorful character with a story of its own. But all woodpeckers share some very special gifts - they are acutely adapted to life in the trees and are experts at working with wood.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (644 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In season six, the dust clears to reveal a world that has evolved. With Axe gone and Michael Prince assuming his place, Chuck must develop a new strategy that is keener and more sophisticated than before. All the players, from Wags to Wendy, from Taylor to Sacker, and of course Senior, must sharpen their weapons and look for new alliances in order to survive. The ground is ever shifting and the stakes absolute in this four-disc collection that includes...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An osprey soars over a small saltmarsh at the delta of the Connecticut River. From somewhere along the east coast of South America, he has just flown 4,000 miles to the place that is imprinted on his memory since birth, the saltmarsh where he will rejoin his mate.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray Disc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
10) Love & Mercy
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson (portrayed by both John Cusack and Paul Dano), singer and songwriter for The Beach Boys. The film intimately examines the unique journey and ultimate salvation of this musical icon, whose success came at an extraordinary personal cost. Also starring Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti.
11) Saving Mr. Banks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
13) The Congress
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (123 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An aging actress (Robin Wright) decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. In return, she receives healthy compensation so her digitized character will stay forever young.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Benjamin Franklin leaves London and returns to wartime Philadelphia where he joins Congress and helps Thomas Jefferson craft the Declaration of Independence. In Paris, he wins French support for the American Revolution then negotiates a peace treaty with Britain. He spends his last years in the new United States, working on the Constitution and unsuccessfully promoting the abolition of slavery.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (687 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power, and influence to outmaneuver the other.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (159 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating...
18) Storytelling
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
From the director of Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse comes the comedy that shines a light on the dark side of human behavior. Take a journey from innocence to experience, kindness to cruelty and love to hate with an emotionally needy college student (Selma Blair) and a dysfunctional family man (John Goodman) as they learn some of life’s most difficult lessons. Masterfully balancing both fact and fiction, acclaimed writer-director Todd Solondz...
19) Parkland
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Featuring Oscar-winners Marcia Gay Harden and Billy Bob Thornton.
20) Love & mercy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (122 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalog of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.