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1) Miles ahead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Devoted wife Ruby drops out of medical school after her husband Derek receives an eight-year prison sentence, and struggles to find the courage to remain faithful and supportive as the demands of being a prison wife weigh heavily on her shoulders.
3) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hrs., 29 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
