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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The family album is a one-hour experimental documentary film utilizing a vast collection of rare 16mm home movies from the 1920s through the 1950s, that weaves into a composite lifetime, passing through the celebrations and struggles from childhood to adulthood, from innocence to experience. It is a universal yet intimate portrait of the American family, not scripted, not rehearsed, not immune to the conflicts and contradictions underlying family...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 18 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Marina experiment is the result of over 10,000 photographs, super 8 home footage and reel to reel audiotape interrogations that director Marina Lutz's father made of her during her upper class upbringing in 1960s and 1970s Manhattan. A both eerie and infinitely fascinating archive that she herself has now sorted out and reassembled. Her father's transgressive voyeurism is turned against himself, while a courageous self portrait simultaneously...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 38 min.)
Language
English
Description
The average American child spends over 40 hours per week consuming media, the equivalent of a full-time job. This means that by the time children born today turn 30, they will have spent an entire decade of their lives in front of some type of screen. Remote Control, based on the findings of the Kaiser Family Foundation's landmark study Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18-year-olds, examines the implications of this unprecedented level of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 streaming video (56 min.)
Language
English
Description
In 1960, NBC aired the first “reality television” show in American broadcast history. Hosted by Jane Wyatt of Father Knows Best fame, and billing itself as a “new kind of visual reporting,” it was called Story of a Family, and it purported to document the day-to-day lives of the 10-member Robertson family of Amarillo, Texas. While the show has since faded from public memory, media scholars and television historians have long recognized its...
Author
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 88 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parents 54-year marriage was a good one. So he isnt prepared when, just a few months after his mothers unexpected death, his 83-year old father, Mike, phones to announce that hes moving to Florida to live with “Kitty”, his secretary from 40 years before. Always close to his mother and equally distant from his father, hes stunned and suspicious. When Mike and Kitty marry and sell...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
7) The sisters
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three sisters living in a college town struggle with the death of their father, while trying to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[Collector's ed., Standard format; 5-disc].
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 1392 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian territories.
9) Post grad
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins out of control when she's forced to move back home with her eccentric family. By the time she lands her dream job, Ryden realizes it's meaningless without the man of her dreams, and the people she loves.
10) The sandlot
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the early 1960's, this comedy focuses on a fifth grader who can't throw a baseball but is recruited by the leader of a neighborhood gang to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a summer he'll never forget.
11) American son
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The powerful story of a young Marine who is fresh from Camp Pendleton. He is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during his four-day Thanksgiving leave back home before being deployed for active duty in Iraq.
12) Time
Series
Criterion collection volume 1109
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the fight of Sibil Fox Richardson, also known as Fox Rich, for the release of her husband from prison where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand by his friend or salvage his family.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Average guy Kirk can't believe his luck when, against all odds, Molly, a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe, falls for him. Kirk is stunned and so are his friends, his family, and even his ex-girlfriend. Now, he must go to great lengths to figure out how to make the relationship work and prove to himself, and everyone else that she is not out of his league.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie is a recently divorced woman with two children who is about to turn forty. Her best friend hooks her up with a trip to the Islands for a little vacation getaway. Finding herself alone, she decides to have a scorching romance with a sexy younger man. Her children, friends, ex-husband and her common sense tell her something completely different from what her heart is saying. But, Jackie realizes that at 40, her life is just beginning.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (594 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fourth season of ABC's breakout family series According to Jim starts off with a bang as Jim must give up his vices so his wife Cheryl can get pregnant. In this traditional blue-collar family comedy, he is the quintessential guy and family man. Proud of his Midwestern values, Jim is an accessible and likeable everyman.
17) Rosemary's baby
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
[1-disc]; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After unwittingly becoming friendly with a coven of witches and warlocks, a young wife is impregnated by the Devil.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (429 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Widower Andy Taylor divides his time between raising his young son Opie and his job as sheriff (and Justice of the Peace) of the sleepy North Carolina town, Mayberry. Andy and Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bee, who serves as a surrogate mother to both father and son. Andy's nervous cousin, Barney Fife, is his deputy sheriff whose utter incompetence is tolerated because Mayberry is virtually crime-free. Includes thirteen of Griffith's very own favorite...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Average guy Kirk can't believe his luck when, against all odds, Molly, a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe, falls for him. Kirk is stunned and so are his friends, his family, and even his ex-girlfriend. Now, he must go to great lengths to figure out how to make the relationship work and prove to himself, and everyone else that she is not out of his league.
20) The family Stone
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Everett brings his fiancee Meredith home to meet his family for the Christmas holiday. It's an instant disaster when Everett's parents, Sybil and Kelly, agree with their gay, deaf son Thad, pot-smoking son Ben and daughters Amy and Susannah that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Wanting to please Everett and get along with his family, Meredith recruits her sister Julie to help her thaw the Stone family cold front.
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