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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A transgendered youth starts living as a man, and assumes the name Brandon Teena. He moves to a tiny Nebraska town and begins making new friends under his new identity. All goes well until his new friends discover his secret. Based on a true story about hope, fear, and the courage it takes to be yourself.
Publisher
Marketed and distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Documentary film about Brandon Teena, who arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993 where he finds some new friends. Three weeks later he is brutally raped and beaten by friends who discover that he is actually a woman. A week later the same two men murder Teena along with two other people. This is a tale of Brandon's coming of age struggle with identity and how his gender ambiguity induced feelings of betrayal, confusion and hostility among...
4) Boys town
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Story of Father Flanagan and his founding of Boys Town, a home for juvenile delinquents.
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
On the outside, Stu and Ginger Gainor live the middle American dream-- a house in the Omaha, Nebraska suburbs, two children, and two incomes. But on closer inspection, it's apparent that the Gainors' perfect life could use some help. Ginger's dream of an RV trip to California seems like the ideal vacation for the whole family. But, unforeseen obstacles stand in the way as the wheels come flying off her fantasy.
6) Election
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tracy Flick (Witherspoon), a straight-A go-getter is determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Broderick) decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Mr. M. never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.
7) Day by day
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The untold story of the University of Nebraska football program. Crippled by controversy and tragedy, they defied all odds winning three national championships in four years. Includes both films: Day by day: the rise and Day by day: the dynasty.
8) Peacock
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. John is launched into the spotlight...