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1) Jolene
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the age of fifteen, Jolene, a free-spirited orphan, embarks on a decade-long cross-country adventure, where she experiences life, love, heartbreak, and freedom.
2) The Italian
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A six-year-old boy living in an orphanage in a small Russian village has been adopted by a wealthy Italian couple, but the boy escapes, determined to find his natural mother at any cost.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 107 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Two orphan vampires (Les Deux Orphelines Vampires) follows Henriette and Louise (Isabelle Teboul and Alexandra Pic), two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Little do the nuns know, each night as the sun goes down, their "little angels" acquire night vision (they "see blue"), as well as an appetite for blood and teenage mischief.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 14 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Nyrisabimana, 18 years old, orphaned by AIDS, has been taking care of her five siblings since she was 12 years old. She's never known a childhood. This documentary follows a day in her life.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 63 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the US in 1966. Told to keep her true identity a secret from her new American family, this eight-year-old girl quickly forgot she was ever anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE is the search to find the answers. It follows acclaimed filmmaker Deann...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (Blu-ray) (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Christmas Eve, ten-year-old Goose hides his fireman father's keys to prevent him from going to work. Instead, his mother drives his dad which has tragic results. A year later, a mysterious stranger arrives to with a special gift which enables a troubled Goose to find what he has lost on Christmas Past.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Shot in Mozambique, but set in an unnamed city, the film depicts the life of an orphan boy, Nelio, whose parents were killed by guerrillas. He escapes to the city and finds magic there and is soon rumoured to possess healing powers, in this violent, yet mythic coming -of-age story. Based on a novel by the popular Swedish writer Henning Mankell.
12) Jane Eyre (1983)
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (311 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charlotte Bronte's story of an orphan who grows up to become governess of a mansion, and who carries a tormented love for a man named Mr. Rochester.
13) Kolya: Kolja
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A grouchy, middle-aged bachelor's life is changed when he becomes guardian to a six year-old boy.
14) The saver
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this gripping drama, 16-year old Fern sets out to fight for life on her own terms after her mother's sudden death. However, she soon learns that she needs community more than money to survive.
16) Bleak house
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 465 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The icily beautiful Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. An all-star cast comes together for this Dickens classics.
17) Korczak
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 117 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
19) Everyone's Child
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 84 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A feature film examining the plight of Africa's 10,000,000 children orphaned by AIDS. Everyone's Child is an eloquent call for action on behalf of Africa's millions of parentless children. Through the tragic story of one Zimbabwean family devastated by AIDS, the film challenges Africans to reaffirm their tradition that an orphan becomes "Everyone's Child." Everyone's Child is the most recent production from Zimbabwe's Media for Development Trust (MFD)....
20) The Witches
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe, undercover, to carry out her nefarious...
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