feature films

Type: 
655
Subfield: 
a
Alias: 
feature films

Riding in cars with boys

The story of a young woman who, despite bad luck and poor decisions, never loses sight of her dreams. Set in Wallingford, Connecticut beginning in the 1960s.

The deep end of the ocean

A wife and mother is faced with rebuilding her life, and her family, after they have been shockingly torn apart. When their son disappears, the pain of a lost child ravages the Cappadora family for nearly a decade. But when he suddenly returns the whole family must come to a painful reunion.

Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat

Tells the rags-to-riches story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colors.

A river of waste

the hazardous truth about factory farms
This documentary "exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production ... In the U.S. and elsewhere, the industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics and growth hormones and also by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways affecting the nearby towns and its citizens. This film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health, as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed"--Container.

Johnny Tremain

After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

Outbreak

A rare killer virus from the jungles of Africa has taken hold in a small California town. There is no cure for this quick and deadly disease, and some people believe that the only way to stop it is to destroy the town--and everyone in it.

Steve Jobs

man in the machine
Documents the life and career of Steve Jobs.

Brighton Beach memoirs

Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome is trying to uncover life's mysteries in this adaptation of a Broadway hit about growing up in Brooklyn during the late 1930's.

Pride & prejudice

An adaptation of the Jane Austen novel in which a spirited young woman in early nineteenth-century England must cope with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

Jane Eyre

The harshly treated orphan girl, Jane Eyre, becomes a governess in an mysterious Yorkshire mansion and falls in love with the master of the house.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - feature films