André Holland
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
2) Darktown
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1948, responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers; they arent allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. But they carry guns, and they must bring law enforcement to a deeply mistrustful community. When black...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (484 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Intertwines characters and themes from Stephen King's fictional town of Castle Rock. In season two a feud between warring clans comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, Stephen King's nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
300 1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in downtown New York in 1900, the Knickerbocker Hospital faces a major upheaval due to poor finances and an exodus of wealthy patients. The one remaining star is Dr. Thackeray, who along with the hospital staff of surgeons, nurses and other personnel must struggle to keep both themselves and the hospital going.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter. It's a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A psychological horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, it is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland.
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although he has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting. It is he, however, who convinces her to join him, the school sports star Calvin, and three unusual women on an interplanetary voyage to rescue their father from a vast evil.
9) Sugar
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...