Oliver Platt
1) The big burn
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation ; Insignia Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Timothy Egans bestseller, this is the dramatic story of an catastrophic 1910 wildfire that defined the fledgling U.S. Forest Service and the nations fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond. In the current American landscape, The Big Burn provides a cautionary tale of heroism and sacrifice, arrogance and greed, hubris and, ultimately, humility, in the face of natures frightening power.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
Series
Publisher
Bluebush Productions, LLC ; MGM Television Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Coen Brothers Best Picture Oscar Nominee transforms into the season's most talked about TV debut. It features a new "true crime" story and new characters, all chilled in the trademark dry wit, murderous mayhem and "Minnesota nice" of the original classic film. Lorne Malvo, is a manipulative master criminal who changes the life of insurance salesmen Lester Nygaard. Gus Grimly and Molly Solverson are the small-town police officers who join forces...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A compelling political drama based on the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. A hard-charging investigative reporter (Renner) stumbles upon the story of a lifetime when he uncovers a link between US government intelligence agencies and Central American drug smugglers. Determined to prove the CIA used cocaine profits to fund the Contra rebels, Webb endangers his career and family when he ignores the warnings of agency operatives...
5) Casanova
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and if he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good graces, and soon finds out she is engaged to Papprizzio, a man...
6) Chef
Language
English
Formats
Description
After quitting his job at a trendy L.A. restaurant, chef Carl Casper decides to start a food truck business with his ex-wife, best friend and son, and goes on a cross-country road trip that helps him reconnect with his family, friends and himself.
7) Lucky them
Publisher
MYMY Productions ; IFC Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An unfocused journalist has one shot to prove herself to her boss, so she sets off to find out what happened to a rock legend.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Free-spirited Maggie meets her match in a charming Viagra salesman named Jamie. Maggie and Jamie leap into a no-strings-attached affair, but no matter how hard they try to keep things 'casual, ' they can't help falling under the influence of the ultimate drug: love!
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve in icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist just might have something to celebrate. Charlie is an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, along with his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh, the two have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata, who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town...
10) Rachel Carson
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the natural world and passion for writing with personal strife....
11) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. Raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, the polyamorous relationship between his wife and his mistress, the creation of his beloved comic book character Wonder Woman, and the controversy the comic generated.
13) Hope springs
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After he is dumped by his fiancee, Vera, British artist, Colin, flees to the village of Hope in New England to bury himself in his art. Colin ends up sulking about in a small Vermont hotel run by Joanie. When Joanie becomes aware of Colin's broken heart, she decides to match him up with a local woman named Mandy. But just as romance begins to ensue between Colin and Mandy, Vera suddenly shows back up with the intentions of rekindling her relationship...
15) Benny & Joon
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
17) The boys of '36
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.
18) Huff: Season one
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A very successful psychiatrist is thrown in turmoil when a 15-year-old patient commits suicide in his office. He is also suffering a midlife crisis and he is being forced to reevaluate his entire life.
19) Gun shy
Publisher
Hollywood, Pictures Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Charlie has lost his nerve. It couldn't have happened at a worse time because Charlie's involved in a sting operation against a Mafia leader. Will his highly unusual support group be able to help him out or will it prove to be his undoing?
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century, the average American medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest. There was radioactive radium in health tonics, thallium in depilatory creams, and morphine in teething medicine and potassium cyanide in cleaning supplies. While the tools of the murderer's trade multiplied as the pace of industrial innovation increased, the scientific knowledge (and the political will) to detect and prevent the crimes lagged...