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Mildred Pierce [videorecording] / by Cain, James M.(James Mallahan),1892-1977.Mildred Pierce.Videorecording.; Haynes, Todd.; LeGros, James.; Leo, Melissa.; Pearce, Guy,1967-; Raymond, Jon.; Winslet, Kate.; Wood, Evan Rachel,1987-; Home Box Office (Firm); Killer Films.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;

Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, James Legros, Melissa Leo, Evan Rachel Wood.Originally broadcast on HBO as a 5 part mini-series in 2011.This five-part drama is an intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years, as she struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation (aspect ratio 16:9) ; Dolby Digital.Emmy Award, 2011

Subjects: Depressions; Divorced women; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Single mothers; Television mini-series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Women;

© c2012., Home Box Office,

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My mother and I : the inside story of the King and our late Queen / by Seward, Ingrid,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The relationship between the late Monarch and her son, the King, has long been a subject of fascination. The upbringing of an heir is especially important and places an extra burden on top of all the cares of motherhood. The demands placed on the monarch are unique and there was no one better placed to know this than the late Queen. She knew that not only must they be figureheads, but they must be seen to care for others less fortunate than themselves. They are also expected to uphold family values. Princess Elizabeth made it a point of maternal honour to try and build her routine around her young son while doing her duty. When she became Queen, it was a more delicate balance, but one which she eventually learnt to sustain. Unlike his self-contained mother, who always put duty above personal happiness, King Charles needed love and support to function properly. This is the story of how Charles was shaped and moulded by his heritage. His mother was the woman he always loved but could never be close to. As Queen she held the Pandora's box of the crown and all he could do was wait and learn. In his mother's old age, he finally received the affection and respect from her he had craved for so long. This book documents his life through many personal anecdotes from his family and his friends, from the moment the guns saluted his birth to the day he was officially declared as the King at his Coronation.

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Charles III, King of Great Britain, 1948-; Charles III, King of Great Britain, 1948-; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022.; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022; Mothers and sons; Princes; Queens;

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The wizard of lies [videorecording] / by Azaria, Hank,1964-actor.; Baum, Samuel,1976-screenwriter.; Connolly, Kristen,1980-actor.; Darrow, Nathan,1976-actor.; De Niro, Robert,actor.; Iberti, Joseph E.,film producer.; Levinson, Barry,film director.; Levinson, Sam,1985-screenwriter.; Nivola, Alessandro,actor.; Pfeiffer, Michelle,1957-actor.; Rabe, Lily,1982-actor.; Schwartz, John Burnham,screenwriter.; television adaptation of (work):Henriques, Diana B.Wizard of lies.; HBO Films,presenter.; Home Box Office (Firm),publisher.; Levinson/Fontana Company,production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.; Tribeca Productions,production company.;

Director of photography, Eigil Bryld; editor, Ron Patane; music, Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine.Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alessandro Nivola, Nathan Darrow, Kristen Connolly, Lily Rabe, Hank Azaria.It is the headline-making true story about the deceptions, lies and betrayals of Bernie Madoff, the man who masterminded the most heinous financial swindle of our generation.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.

Subjects: Made-for-TV movies.; Biographical films.; Henriques, Diana B.; Madoff, Bernard L.; Commercial crimes; Ponzi schemes; Swindlers and swindling;

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Mutiny on the Bounty / by FitzSimons, Peter,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories-- a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order-- and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave. Under the leadership of Fletcher Christian most of the crew mutinied soon after sailing from Tahiti, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen adrift in a small open boat. In one of history's great feats of seamanship, Bligh navigated this tiny vessel for 3618 nautical miles to Timor. Fletcher Christian and the mutineers sailed back to Tahiti, where most remained and were later tried for mutiny. But Christian, along with eight fellow mutineers and some Tahitian men and women, sailed off into the unknown, eventually discovering the isolated Pitcairn Island-- at the time not even marked on British maps-- and settling there. This astonishing story is historical adventure at its very best, encompassing the mutiny, Bligh's monumental achievement in navigating to safety, and Fletcher Christian and the mutineers' own epic journey from the sensual paradise of Tahiti to the outpost of Pitcairn Island. The mutineers' descendants live on Pitcairn to this day, amid swirling stories and rumours of past sexual transgressions and present-day repercussions. Mutiny on the Bounty is a sprawling, dramatic tale of intrigue, bravery and sheer boldness, told with the accuracy of historical detail and total command of story that are Peter FitzSimons' trademarks.

Subjects: Bligh, William, 1754-1817.; Christian, Fletcher, 1764-1793.; Bounty (Ship); Survival at sea; Survival; Bounty Mutiny, 1789.;

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Didion & Babitz / by Anolik, Lili,author.;

"Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in a closet in the back of an apartment full of wrack, ruin, and filth was a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. These boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside: journals, photos, scrapbooks, manuscripts, letters. No: inside a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies, and was centered on a two-story house rented by Joan Didion and her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood. 7406 Franklin Avenue, a combination salon-hotbed-living end where writers and artists mixed with movie stars, rock n' rollers, drug trash. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, cool and reserved behind her oversized sunglasses and storied marriage, a union as tortured as it was enduring. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the breaking and then the remaking -- and thus the true making-- of another great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (among many, many others), who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. The two formed a complicated alliance: a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity; a friendship that was as rare as true love, as rare as true hate. Didion, in spite of her confessional style, her widespread fame, is so little known or understood. She's remained opaque, elusive. Until now. With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence, and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters -- as the key to unlocking the mighty and mysterious Didion"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Babitz, Eve; Didion, Joan; Women authors, American;

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Baddest man : the making of Mike Tyson / by Kriegel, Mark,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle dates back to the 1980s, a magnificent noir epic about fame, race, greed, criminality, trauma, and the creation of the most feared and mesmerizing fighter in boxing history. On an evening that defined the Greed is Good 1980s, Donald Trump hosted a raft of celebrities and high rollers in a carnival town on the Jersey Shore to bask in the glow created by a 21-year-old heavyweight champion. Mike Tyson knocked out Michael Spinks that night, and in 91 frenzied seconds earned more than the annual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics combined. It had been just eight years since Tyson, a feral child from a dystopian Brooklyn neighborhood was delivered to boxing's forgotten wizard, Cus D'Amato, living a self-imposed exile in upstate New York. Together, Cus and the Kid were an irresistible story of mutual redemption-darlings to the novelists, screenwriters and newspapermen long charmed by D'Amato, and perfect for the nascent industry of cable television. Long before anyone heard of Tony Soprano, Mike Tyson was HBO's leading man. It was the greatest sales job in the sport's history, and the most lucrative. But the business of Tyson concealed truths that were darker and more nuanced than the script would allow. The intervening decades have seen Tyson villainized, lionized, and fetishized-but never, until now, fully humanized. Mark Kriegel, an acclaimed biographer regarded as "the finest boxing writer in America," was a young cityside reporter at the New York Daily News when first swept up in the Tyson media hurricane, but here measures his subject not by whom he knocked out, but by what he survived. Though Tyson was billed as a modern-day Jack Dempsey, the truth was closer to Sonny Liston. Tyson was Black, feared, and born to die young. What made Liston a pariah, though, would make Tyson-in a way his own handlers could never understand-a touchstone for a generation raised on a soundtrack of hip hop and gunfire. What Peter Guralnick did for Elvis in Train to Memphis and James Kaplan for Sinatra in Frank, Kriegel does for Tyson. It's not just the mesmerizing ascent that he captures, but Tyson's place in the American psyche"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Tyson, Mike, 1966-; African American boxers; Boxing;

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Wartorn 1861-2010 [videorecording] / by Alpert, Jon.; Gandolfini, James.; Kent, Ellen Goosenberg.; Nevins, Sheila.; O'Neill, Matthew.; Attaboy Films.; HBO Documentary Films.; HBO Entertainment (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);

Editor, Geof Bartz, Adrew Morreale and Jay Sterrenberg.Beginning with the first documented cases from the Civil War, the film examines occurrences of PTSD through two World Wars and Vietnam, as well as more recent cases involving soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The stories are told through soldiers' revealing letters and journals; photographs and combat footage; first-person interviews with veterans of WWII, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom; and interviews with family members of soldiers with PTSD.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0.

Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Post-traumatic stress disorder.; Veterans; Veterans' families; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; War neuroses.;

© c2011., Home Box Office : Warner Home Video,

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When time stopped : a memoir of my father's war and what remains / by Neumann, Ariana,author.;

Includes bibliographical references."In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo's eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn't bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries, and other memorabilia. Ten years later, Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined. When Time Stopped is a powerful detective story and an epic family memoir, spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life. In uncovering her father's story after all these years, she discovers nuance and depth to her own history and liberates poignant and thought-provoking truths about the threads of humanity that connect us all."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Neumann, Hanus Stanislav, 1921-2001; Neumann, Hanus Stanislav, 1921-2001.; Newman family.; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews;

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Queen of the sun [videorecording] : what are the bees telling us? / by Hauk, Günther.; Pollan, Michael.; Shiva, Vandana.; Siegel, Taggart.; Music Box Films.;

Director of photography, Taggart Siegel ; sound design by Ryan Mauk ; animation by Noah Dorsey, Michelle Hwang, Chris Rodgers, Alyssa Timon, Emma Tripp ; edited by Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel ; original score, Jami Sieber.Commentary, Gunther Hauk, Kirk Webster, Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan, Yvon Achard, Ian Davies, Eric Olson, Randy Johnson, Roy Arbon, Raj Patel, Michael Thiele, Johannes Wirz, Massimo Carpinteri, Vandana Shiva, May Berenbaum, Gunter Friedmann, Scott Black, Hugh Wilson, Jeffrey Smith, Horst Kornberger, David Heaf, Philip Schilds, Jennifer Kornberger, Colin Fleay, Ruth Hamlyn, Warren Thompson, Ivan Hyslop, Jacqueline Freeman, Zan Yassin, Jacquie Berger, Deborah Romano, David Yassky, Kerry Grefig, Ron Breland.Viewers will journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive. Weaved is an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists, and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, and Vandana Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.E.DVD ; NTSC, all regions; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; 5.1 surround, stereo.Winner IDA, Pare Lorentz Award Honorable Mention ; Winner Director's Choice, Rhode Island International Film Festival ; Winner, Planet in Focus ; Winner, Red Rock ; Official Selection IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ; Winner, Syracuse ; Winner Audience Award, Maui ; Winner, Nashville ; Winner Best Documentary, Youth Jury Rhode Island ; Winner Audience Award, Indiememphis

Subjects: Bee culture; Bee culture.; Beekeepers.; Colony collapse disorder of honeybees.; Documentary films.; Honeybee; Honeybee.;

© c2012., Music Box Films,

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Girls. [videorecording] / by Dunham, Lena,1986-actor,television director,screenwriter.; Kirke, Jemima,actor.; Mamet, Zosia,1988-actor.; Peretz, Jesse,1968-television director.; Williams, Allison,1988-actor.; HBO Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Home Box Office (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.;

Lena Dunham, Adam Driver, Allison Williams, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Zosia Mamet, Alex Karpovsky, Jemima Kirke.Lena Dunham returns for the highly anticipated fifth season of Girls, the award-winning hit comedy series that follows the assorted humiliations and triumphs of a group of girls in their mid-20s - each facing new challenges in life and love this season.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0, anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1.

Subjects: Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Female friendship; Man-woman relationships; Single women; Women college graduates;

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