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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Homecoming is the first film to explore the rural roots of African American life. It chronicles the generations-old struggle of African Americans for land of their own which pitted them against both the Southern white power structure and the federal agencies responsible for helping them. Director Charlene Gilbert weaves this history together with a fond portrait of her own Georgia farming family into what she calls, "A story of land and love." Like...
3) Professor T
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (275min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows Professor Jasper Tempest, a brilliant Cambridge University criminologist with OCD, as he helps police investigate their most difficult cases.
4) Time changer
Publisher
TBN
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A philosopher and college professor is sent into the future to see the possible results of his actions in this mixture of sci-fi adventure and Christian drama.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Fifteenth anniversary edition ; [Blu-ray version].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student-he's the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 300-year history of a lost painting said to have been created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Framed by the present day narrative of a teacher who has the inside track on the number of lives profoundly altered by the elusive painting. The teacher's tale interconnects individual stories of tragedy, romance, success, failure and even the Holocaust.
7) Still Alice
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Harvard psychologist suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A school-of-hard-knocks newspaperman who despises journalism schools is forced by his boss to visit a night school journalism class. Smitten by the course's lovely professor, he enrolls masquerading as a novice and soon becomes her prize pupil, all the while trying to make her his own prize.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
10) Leaves of grass
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bill, a classical philosophy professor at Brown University, returns home upon news of his brother Brady's murder in a drug deal gone awry. Bill quickly learns that Brady's death has been grossly exaggerated, as he's swept up into one of his brother's crazy schemes. Alongside his eccentric mother and a beautiful woman named Janet, Bill participates in his brother's wild plan, leading him on a twisted path filled with unique characters and life's most...
11) Wonder boys
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During a single weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control. An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet and a failing marriage are just a few of the crises piling up.
12) The human stain
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
13) God's not dead
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the debate of the ages; this time, held in a seemingly insignificant venue, but the outcome, as always, will be life-changing. A Christian college freshman Josh Wheaton and his atheist Philosophy Professor, hold court on the existence of God. To pass the course, Josh must prove to the class that God is alive and well. This dare could cost him his relationships, his career, even his future, but Josh stands up for his faith and takes on the challenge....
14) Leaves of grass
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bill, a classical philosophy professor at Brown University, returns home upon news of his brother Brady's murder in a drug deal gone awry. Bill quickly learns that Brady's death has been grossly exaggerated, as he's swept up into one of his brother's crazy schemes. Alongside his eccentric mother and a beautiful woman named Janet, Bill participates in his brother's wild plan, leading him on a twisted path filled with unique characters and life's most...
15) Irrational man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A philosophy professor experiences an existential crisis until he discovers new purpose in life when he begins dating one of his students.
16) The professor
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Johnny Depp delivers a wickedly funny performance as Richard, a buttoned-down college lecturer who, after learning he has six months to live, transforms into a rebellious party animal. To the shock of his wife and school chancellor, and the delight of his students, Richard leads a hilarious crusade against authority and hypocrisy in this dark comedy costarring Zoey Deutch.
17) Wit: a play
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
85 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
18) A single man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Rev. /
Physical Desc
[9], 257, [2] p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of...
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