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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
William Easton is an oily executive who denies John Kramer (a.k.a. Jigsaw) access to an experimental cancer treatment. This lands William and a handful of additional lost souls into yet another chamber of horrors. Now, the game is overseen by Jigsaw's acolyte, Detective Hoffman. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set his game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
William Easton is an oily executive...
1423) Wit
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
1424) The brood
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
1426) The Horse Boy
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, the Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in an attempt to find healing for him. When two-year-old Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson, a writer and former horse trainer, and his wife Kristin Neff, a psychology professor, sought the best possible medical care, but traditional therapies had little effect. Then they discovered...
1427) Enlightened
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Season two picks up with Amy immersed in gathering evidence against Abaddonn. In the season's eight episodes, Amy enlists the help of journalist Jeff Flender, and as they work together on a searing expose, she dreams of a bigger life and develops romantic yearnings for the handsome, well-travelled reporter.
1428) Dallas Buyers Club
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
1429) An apology to elephants
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
"Focusing on the lives of elephants in captivity, the documentary tells the troubling story of what happens to elephants in the name of entertainment"--container.
1430) The American West
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Documents the history of the American West including the pioneers who explored and settled it, the legendary outlaws who terrorized it, and the Native American struggle against European settlers and the U.S. government.
1431) 9000 needles
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
The documentary follows Devin Dearth, disabled by a stroke at the age of 40, through difficulties with the U.S. healthcare system and an acupuncture treatment and rehabilitation program in Tianjin, China.
1432) Three Christs
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"In 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that schizophrenic patients should be treated not with confinement and elctroshock but with empathy and understanding. As his first study, he takes on the particularly challenging case of three men: Joseph, Leon, and Clyde - each of whom believes they are Jesus Christ. Hoping that by getting them together in the same room to confront...
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"The film powerfully highlights efforts to redress more than a century's worth of legal and political moves undermining Indian land ownership and sovereignty, going back to the 1887 General Allotment Act; the national fight to recover lost lands is being led by the Twin Cities-based Indian Tenure Land Foundation."--Publisher's webpage.
1434) How to survive a plague
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
"[T]he story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time."--Container.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Lost in the Barrens: A canoe accident leaves two teenage boys lost in one of Canada's most desolate regions. Their only chance for survival is to work as a team. It will take more courage and strength than either of them could ever have imagined if they are to survive. Rugged gold: Martha, a widowed socialite raising her son Lloyd, finds love again with Don, a rugged outdoorsman who convinces her to move north. When Lloyd and Don go missing during...
1438) Lorenzo's oil
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn about it and tackle the problem himself.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Lost in the Barrens: A canoe accident leaves two teenage boys lost in one of Canada's most desolate regions. Their only chance for survival is to work as a team.
Rugged gold: Martha, a widowed socialite raising her son Lloyd, finds love again with Don, a rugged outdoorsman who convinces her to move north. When Lloyd and Don go missing during a dangerous earthquake, Martha is forced to endure an Alaskan winter on her own.
Pony express rider: A young...
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