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1) The Majestic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The moving portrait of seven-year-old Sasha, who has always known that she is a girl. Sasha's family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and find affirmation in a small community of rural France. Realized with delicacy and intimacy, Sb̌astien Lifshitz's documentary poetically explores the emotional challenges, everyday feats, and small moments in Sasha's...
4) The rider
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland...
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2016
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2016?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (24 min.) : stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
“Lambing Season” pursues the idea of a man – writer, sheep farmer, and good sport Don Mitchell. Don’s golden years carry baggage and freedoms, but what lies beneath is something deeper and more richly faceted. It is a film about choosing, chasing, and losing identity, and finding a new one among mapless backroads.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Marc and Philippe are two camp counsellors. Marc is very virile and serves as the camps athletic director, while Philippe is more reserved and is the camps drama instructor. One night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, these two will struggle with their sexual identities while working together at a summer camp for boys.
8) Tomboy
Publisher
Wolfe Video LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Laure is 10 years old and a tomboy. On arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Summer becomes a big playground and Laure pretends to be "Mikael", a boy like the others, different enough to get the attention of Lisa, who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret."--Container.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intimate exploration of the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their parents. Through moving, personal stories of children, parents, and doctors, this installment of Frontline examines new medical interventions increasingly being offered at younger ages.
10) Trans generation
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (4 hr., 32 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
College is often a place for dramatic self-invention. What could be a more dramatic than a sex change? This mini-series follows four transsexuals, two male-to-female and two female-to-male, as they negotiate the twin minefields of college and gender-reassignment surgery. Gabbie at the University of Colorado, Lucas at Smith College, Raci at Cal State Los Angeles, and Fulbright Scholar T.J., a Michigan State University grad student, are all exceptionally...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (236 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Imitation of life (1936) portrays two women with young daughters who build a forune together. But success doesn't save them from sorrow. Delilah's light-skinned teenager rejects her mother and her race, while Bea must choose between the man she loves and the daughter who loves him, too.
Imitation of life (1959) portrays two widows and their troubled daughters. Lora's search for success causes her to neglect her daughter, while Annie's daughter rejects...
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A case of mistaken identity lands down-on-his-luck Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin begins to be under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat. He finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get to them before they get him.
13) Gattaca
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
DVD ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...
14) Freaky Friday
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
c1977
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A conservative, refined mother magically changes place with her thirteen-year old daughter for one day.
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Iconic ballerina Misty Copeland made history when she became the first African-American woman to be named principal dancer of the legendary American Ballet Theater. Get the incredible, behind-the-scenes story of how she overcame outmoded ballet culture stereotypes and near career-ending injuries to become one of the most revered dancers of her generation.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the end of the 20th century. Jackson Katz argues that there is a crisis in masculinity and that some of the guises offered to men as a solution (e.g., rugged individualism, violence) come loaded with attendant dangers to women, as well as other men.
Publisher
Amici Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in history, women are creating some of the most exciting architectural designs in the world. How have they navigated their way to the top? What is the nature of their creative process? Are there gender differences in architectural design?. Making Space is a 1-hour documentary film about five dynamic and accomplished female architects- all rising stars in what has been an all-male galaxy: Annabelle Selldorf (New York), Marianne McKenna...
18) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken and armed with a new perspective.
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