Barbara Kopple
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 12 in.
Language
English
Description
In this Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991, the true-life story of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota is documented from beginning to end. When Geo. A. Hormel & Company made $2 million in profits, then cut its workers' salaries by $2.00 an hour each, the workers had only one option: Go out on strike.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow the Dixie chicks, the top selling female band of all-time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the group's lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. Follow the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and make country music. At a time when the United States is fighting for democracy...
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (947 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The two Escobars: "A gripping drama about the intersection of crime, sports and nationalism in 1990's Columbia. At a time when drug money fueled the sport known in the underworld as "narco-soccer", the fates of Andres Escobar, the inspirational captain of Nacional, and Pablo Escobar, the notorious leader of the Medellin cartel, were permanently linked. When Andre was murdered 10 days after scoring an own goal against the US in the first round of the...