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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 464 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A tale of best friends Lila and Elena, which started at the school in the 1950s. As an elderly woman, Elena tries to unravel the mystery of her brilliant friend, who also became her worst enemy.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film tells the story of Verena, a determined young nurse who is hired to help the mute young heir within. But the more she observes him, the more Verena becomes convinced he has fallen under the spell of a powerful and otherworldly persona trapped in the villa's stone walls, one that seems to be rapidly entwining with her own.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the untold story of Tour de France cycling champion Gino Bartali and other courageous Italians who risked their lives to rescue Jews, partisans and other refugees in Nazi-occupied Italy.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paris, wine and romance: Isabella, the owner of her family's Oregon winery, takes a big leap and enters a prestigious wine competition in Paris. There she meets her biggest competitor, Jacques, from one of the world's foremost winemaking families.
Rome in love: An unknown actress lands the role of a lifetime in Rome and discovers love and life in the eternal city.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two teams of scientists explore the fascinating geologic story of Italy: the continuously erupting volcanoes, the violent earthquakes, the clash of mighty tectonic plates, and the rising of the mountains that produced Michelangelo's famous marble. If they can determine if the northern Apennines are still alive and growing, they might better understand where future earthquakes might strike this highly unstable land.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of Galileo Galilei's life, including his scientific achievements and his defense of his controversial theory that the earth revolves around the sun. Also includes how letters from his illegitimate daughter, Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, have shed new light on Galileo's discoveries and his trial for heresy.
67) Fire at sea
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Angela (Chabert) is an indenpendent-minded American tour guide who gets fired from her job in Rome just before Chrismas. She crosses paths with an American executvie named Oliver (Page), who wants to buy a high-end ceramics company. Oliver hires Angela to be his tour guide around theEternal City, As the owner of the ceramics company won't sell it to him until he learns "the heart and soul of Rome." But is there another heart and sould that he may...
69) Gunslingers
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (388 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
73) Corpo celeste
Series
Film Movement volume year 10, film 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Corpo Celeste: 13-year-old Marta struggles to find her place in her new home in southern Italy by testing the boundaries of her religion and the unfamiliar city.
Raju: A German couple adopts an Indian orphan in Kolkata. When the child suddenly disappears, they realize they are part of the problem.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 548 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Same Genius. New World. Florence is thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. When the dust settles, friends are buried and rivalries are enflamed. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book of Leaves and uncover the secret history of his mother....
78) Naples '44
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing in his notepad everything that happened to him during his one-year stay, observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived every day the most incredible ways of fighting to survive. These notes turned into his masterpiece, a memoir.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shylock loans money to a man he despises, the merchant Antonio, only if a pound of Antonio's flesh will be due, in a court of law, upon default. Antonio borrows the money so that his friend Bessanio can travel to woo the woman he loves, Portia, whose freedom to marry is bound up in a fairy-tale decree of her father's.
80) Rome and Pompeii
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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