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Linda is an English teacher with a small apartment full of a rich collection of great literature. Her only close personal relationships are those she has with her favorite authors. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she reads, and she likes it that way. All that changes when former star pupil Jason returns to town after failing as a playwright in New York. To help him avoid law school, Linda mounts his play at school, and puts her own...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (197 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The latest existential epic from Nuri Bilge Ceylan, one of cinema's most incisive investigators of the human condition, is a masterclass in moral and philosophical inquiry, featuring Merve Dizdar in a Cannes-winning performance.
Pub. Date
c2003
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4 videodiscs (663 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he finds and loses love with several women.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a student proposes a project with autistic youth and senior dementia patients, Language Arts teacher Charles Marlow confronts the indelible mark autism has made on the story of his life and learns to connect to the people he loves.
7) Whiplash
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer...
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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At a Montreal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jasper Tempest is a Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University. He is obsessed with cleanliness, structure and order, but his genius for solving crimes means he is constantly having to get his hands dirty, helping the police to crack their most difficult cases.
13) Class of '85
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It takes place in the mid-'80s and focuses on an unorthodox high school teacher, Mr. Murphy, and his small class of nine students. Calvin Mayfield, a new student to the class, falls head over heels for a girl named Kerri Kennedy. But because of his shy nature, he struggles with building a friendship and relationship with her. So he seeks out the advice of a local inmate named Lawrence who begins giving him lessons on how to get this girl. In the meantime,...
14) God's country
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (302 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wild finds herself at a crossroads after she is the victim of a mugging and agrees to recover in the home of her son, a police detective. Once under his roof, Wild becomes involved in her sonâ‚‚s murder investigation.
Pub. Date
2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (613 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 105 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Life is what you'd expect for young teenagers in this seemingly normal private all-girls school, until a past alumni returns as a teacher. She strikes up a new friendship with two very different students and a horrific course of events ensues. A teacher is found dead, apparently having committed suicide, and circumstances that inextricably link both the past and the present are unveiled. As the body count rises, the memories of the deaths unleash...
19) Another round
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coalmining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Lori Loughlin plays Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen other miners, has just been killed in an explosion. The...
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