Meryl Streep
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Narrated by Meryl Streep, this intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, WINGS OF LIFE utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet....
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray explores the relationship between Murray’s family life and career and reconsiders her place in the contemporary art history. Murray’s personal journals, voiced in the film by Meryl Streep, give viewers a privileged window into Murray’s internal struggles and incredible ambition. Verité footage of Murray in her studio and home videos help round out this profile of her life...
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An extraordinary journey to the top of the world, the documentary adventure "TO THE ARCTIC" reveals a compelling tale of survival. Narrated by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep, the film takes audiences into the lives of a mother polar bear and her twin seven-month-old cubs as never before captured on film, as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home. Captivating and intimate IMAX® footage brings moviegoers up-close and personal with...
4) Manhattan
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Allen portrays a comedy writer whose wife leaves him and is now writing a book about their failed marriage. He consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old until he gets involved with his best friend's mistress.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 95 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Filmmaker John Walter artfully captures Meryl Streep groping for, and then seizing the character in her unforgettable portrayal of Mother Courage in Tony Kushner's adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht masterpiece Mother Courage and her children.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this powerful film, an idealistic professor (Robert Redford) attempts to inspire a student to do more with his life, while a charismatic U.S. Senator (Tom Cruise) pitches a new Middle East war strategy to a TV journalist (Meryl Streep). Halfway across the world, two of the professor's former students are trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, fighting for freedom and their very lives. As the tension mounts, these Americans will change each...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel, all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with...
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this taut, neo-noir thriller, Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider) is a successful psychiatrist who becomes involved in a murder investigation after his client is found dead. First, the cops come looking for answers, and then the victim’s enigmatic mistress (Meryl Streep) comes looking for a whole lot more! Sam succumbs to her charms, but he soon begins to suspect that she knows more than she’s saying!
Pub. Date
1962.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (127 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh headline an all-star cast in this shocking and daring thriller! When a platoon of Korean War GIs is captured, they somehow end up at a ladies' garden club party. Or do they? Major Bennett Marco (Sinatra) can't remember. As he searches for the answer, he discovers a diabolical plot orchestrated by the utterly ruthless Mrs. Iselin (Angela Lansbury) and involving her son, husband and a secret cabal of enemy...
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Mike (Jeremy Irons) and Anna (Meryl Streep), two film actors involved in a turbulent affair, are portraying a pair of star-crossed Victorian lovers, Charles and Sarah. As the fictional Charles’ reputation is ruined by the enigmatic Sarah, Mike finds that he cannot accept the intangible affections of the wily Anna. The interweaving of the two love stories yields a fascinating insight into the passion and mystery that can pull two people together...
11) Museum Town
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Directed by Jennifer Trainer, a former journalist and one of MASS MoCA's original builders, and narrated by Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep, the documentary tells the story of an unconventional museum, the small town of North Adams, MA it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of art to transform a desolate post-industrial city. Today, MASS MoCA is the largest museum for contemporary art in the world—but just three decades ago, its...
12) It's complicated
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray Disc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hilarious look at marriage, divorce and everything in between. With a thriving Santa Barbara bakeshop, a new romance heating up, and her divorce finally behind her, Jane Adler has her life all figured out, until she finds herself trapped between the perfect new beau and her philandering ex-husband who's determined to win her back. When opposites attract all over again, will love be sweeter the second time around? It's...complicated!
13) The Living Sea
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
THE LIVING SEA celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with this complex and fragile environment. Using beautiful images of unspoiled healthy waters, THE LIVING SEA offers hope for recovery engendered by productive scientific efforts. Oceanographers studying humpback whales, jellyfish, and deep-sea life show us that the more we understand the ocean and its inhabitants, the more we will know how to protect them....
14) Doubt
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 a popular priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled 12-year-old black student is questioned by the school's principal who is desperate to have him removed from the school.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on the incredible true story, Meryl Streep delivers a hilarious and touching performance as a New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer despite having a hilariously awful singing voice. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth, but when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray disc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them."--Container.
18) The giver
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 24 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Description
Once Jennie had everything. She had two bowls to eat from, two pillows, and for cold weather, a red wool sweater. She even had a master who loved her. But Jennie didn't care. In the middle of the night she packed everything she had in a black leather bag with gold buckles and looked out of her favorite window for the last time... Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life follows Jennie's surreal, suspenseful and unexpectedly moving journey...
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (133 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Academy Award winners Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave star with Academy Award nominees Glenn Close, Winona Ryder in an director Bille August's vision of Isabel Allende's passionate, epic novel of love, family and romance THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS.