Molly Parker
Author
Language
English
Description
"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history--culpable regardless of her intentions." --
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
1876, the Black Hills of South Dakota. In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a throng of misfits to an outlaw settlement where everyone has a price. Welcome to Deadwood ... a hell of a place to make your fortune.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
1876, the Black Hills of South Dakota. In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a throng of misfits to an outlaw settlement where everyone has a price. Welcome to Deadwood ... a hell of a place to make your fortune.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
1876, the Black Hills of South Dakota. In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a throng of misfits to an outlaw settlement where everyone has a price. Welcome to Deadwood ... a hell of a place to make your fortune.
5) Rare birds
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Dave's marriage is dead and his restaurant just went belly up. Alphonse, Dave's neighbor, hatches a mad-yet-ingenious scheme in the hopes of saving his buddy's sagging fortune. After staging the sightings of an extremely rare bird in the neighborhood, bird watchers and hungry patrons the world over, flock to the area. But soon, Dave's restaurant is swimming in controversy.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
For better or worse, times are changing in Deadwood, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. In an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, they learn the hard way that fortune comes with a price.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious theater troupe. When the workshops ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives." --
11) The war bride
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, this uplifting wartime drama is about a vivacious war bride and mother who leaves war-torn London to begin a new life on her new husband Charlie's family farm in Canada. Their faith and love is put to the supreme test.
12) That's what I am
Publisher
WWE Studios
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a well-meaning English teacher pairs a well-liked student with the school's biggest outcast on an important class project, determined to teach both boys courage and acceptance.
13) Gone
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A nurse is blackmailed to kill a patient under police protective custody, or else her teenage daughter, who has been kidnapped, will be killed. Instead of committing the murder, however, she pursues the kidnappers on her own to save her daughter's life and bring the criminals to justice.
14) Hollywoodland
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Language
English
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
15) The wicker man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Edward Malus is a California police officer who takes a leave of absence after witnessing a tragedy on the job. Taking pills to soothe the effects of his post-traumatic stress disorder, Edward receives a letter from his ex-fiance, Willow, requesting his assistance in finding her missing child. She asks him come to Summerisle, a small island off the coast of Puget Sound, and help her find her daughter, Rowan. When Edward starts investigating Rowan's...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Set in 2048, this epic reimagining of the original family space adventure finds the Robinsons torn off course en route to what they hoped would be a fresh start on a distant space colony. Against all odds, but with endless hope and extensive training, the family bands together to survive on a dangerous alien planet." --
17) Last wedding
Publisher
Velocity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
Takes a wry look at contemporary relationships through the experiences of three thirtysomething couples, two happily partnered and the third about to walk into a marital disaster. Against all advice, the wedding goes ahead, but it is not only the newlyweds who feel the strain. The honeymoon is barely over before doubt, jealousy and infidelity bring all three relationships to the point of implosion.
19) Men with brooms
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a disgraced former curling champion who returns to his hometown in an attempt to lead his former team to glory.
