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Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood discovered Peggy-Jean Montgomery when she was just nineteen months old and made her a star before she was two. By the time she was six, Baby Peggy had become one of the most popular stars in Hollywood. Stores even sold Baby Peggy products. By the age of eleven, she was broke, her money twice stolen by her family. Over the next six decades, this neglected child reinvented herself as Diana Serra Cary, a respected author, film historian and...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and executive produced by Jerry Weintraub, this HBO Films drama recreates the glittering private world of Liberace, the flamboyant, phenomenally successful entertainer whose extravagant costumes, trademark candelabra, and elaborate stage shows made him the most bankable entertainer of his time.
"Douglas...nails the character..."--Time Magazine.
"...Damon and Douglas give supremely entertaining performances."--Guardian...
7) Pocahontas
Publisher
NEST Family Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Animated biography of Pocahontas, the Native American princess whose brave intervention saved the settlers' lives and brought peace between two very different peoples.
8) Marie Curie
Series
Publisher
Nest Family Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005.+]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The animated story of Marie Curie, the Polish-born scientist. Her shared research with her husband Pierre gave the world the theory of radioactivity, the discovery of plutonium, and the isolation of radium. She was the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had one of the most fascinating, glamorous and tempestuous relationships of the 20th century - the two most famous movie stars of their day who played out every high and low of their love affairs, multiple marriages and divorces right in the public eye. The movie follows their private and public relationship played out against their ill-fated appearance in a 1983 revival of Noel Coward's stage play. Tempestuous,...
11) Great circle
Author
Language
English
Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
Publisher
MVB Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"An unauthorized documentary film containing exclusive interviews and rare archival photos"--Container.
The Music Box collection presents the true complete story of one of the biggest names in the music business: The Rolling Stones. Featuring rare and archive footage courtesy of numerous private collections from around the world.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"London, September 3rd, 1939. The world is on the brink of war. In his final days, Sigmund Freud, a recent escapee with his daughter from the Nazi regime, receives a visit from the formidable Oxford Don, author C.S. Lewis. On this day, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century engage in a monumental session over the belief in the future of mankind and the existence of God." --container.
14) Humphrey Bogart
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Beat the devil is an offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
Humphrey Bogart on film provides a glimpse into the unique life of the quintessential Hollywood legend.
Publisher
Virgin Vision
Pub. Date
[1988,1987]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the murder/suicide of playwright Joe Orton and his lover, Ken Halliwell. When Orton, after years of unsuccessful collaboration with Halliwell, breaks away and achieves fame and fortune on his own, Halliwell cracks, hammers Orton to death and then kills himself.
17) Yi dai zong shi
Publisher
Tung Ah Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When her ex's sensational tell-all about their lives is optioned for a movie, Puzzle Lady Cora Felton reluctantly accepts a producer role's in the much-despised production before a body is found on set, staged with a crossword puzzle clue.
Cora Felton's ex-husband's sensational tell-all memoir, Confessions of a Trophy Husband: My Life with the Puzzle Lady, has been optioned for the movies-- and the Puzzle Lady herself is signed on as an associate...
19) Life in a day
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
People from 192 countries submitted more than 80,000 videos to YouTube of personal events that happened in their lives on July 24th, 2010. Over 4,500 hours of contributed footage was sifted through to create this motion picture event.
