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Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity."--Container.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
Publisher
[Varahonar Film Co.]
Pub. Date
c[1999], 2000.
Language
Persian
Description
Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind in Tehran, unaware of his father's intention to disown him. Engaged to be married, the widowed man has kept Mohammad a secret from his fiancee, certain the boy's disability will destroy his only chance for happiness. With the wedding swiftly approaching Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable...
5) Talk to me
Publisher
VK Productions
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the lives of three children with autism who attend public school in Oakland, California, following them from the time they get up in the morning to the time they go to sleep at night. Provides a look into the daily lives of families from various socio-economic and racial backgrounds struggling with the disorder and sheds light on which families receive services for their special needs children, which families don't, and why.
Publisher
[Dan Habib]
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Examines the educational and social inclusion of youth with disabilities. The film describes the efforts of Habib and his family to include Samuel, 7, in all facets of school and community. Also features four other families with varied inclusion experiences, plus interviews with teachers, young people, parents and disability rights experts.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Not only do parents Bob and Dorothy have six kids of their own, they have also opened up their hearts and their home to thirteen disadvantaged and handicapped children. What results is an amazing mix of diversity. The multiethnic kids are heroes who belie the typical stereotype of being handicapped. They go to school, do chores, and "hang out" while simultaniously navigating the difficulties of their disablilties.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"When triplets are born to proud trumpeter swan parents, everyone is bursting with joy. All seems perfect until they discover that their only son, Louie, can't speak. And without a voice, Louie can't compete against his loudmouth rival, Boyd, for the affections of his true love, Serena. But with help from a boy at camp and his teacher, and with dubious guidance from a big city agent, Louie discovers his own unique talents which help him find his place...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lassie, the painted hills: River's end: Teenager Clay doesn't seem to mesh with his small Texas town. After one too many times in trouble, his grandfather, Sheriff Buster Watkins, is ready to teach Clay a lesson for good with a solitary canoe trip into the wilderness. Proud rebel: John Chandler is traveling the country with his son, David, and their sheep dog, Lance, in search of a doctor who can help David speak.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Maya is the mom who will do anything for her husband, Jimmy, and kids Ray, Dylan, and JJ, her eldest son with cerebral palsy. This begins of this amusing and often unexpected comedy, the family, along with JJ's, aide Kenneth, head to London to meet up with Maya's long-estranged father, Martin, to ask him to help them in their time of need.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Maya DiMeo is the mom who will do anything for her husband Jimmy and kids Ray, Dylan, and J.J., her eldest son with cerebral palsy. In season two of this amusing and often unexpected comedy, the family, along with JJ's aide Kenneth, is reunited after JJ's first summer camp adventure. As the new school year approaches, the DiMeos, who have been searching endlessly for the right school support for JJ, are faced with a new and unfamiliar reality: the...
16) Embattled
Publisher
Shout! Factory, IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Although a successful fighter in the world of MMA, Cash chooses flight when he finds out his second son is born with a developmental disorder, leaving his first son as caretaker while he continues to make his fortune in the ring. Now grown, Jett decides to follow in his father's fighting footsteps and confront him head-on in the ring, where Cash must face his past in a battle neither father nor son can win.
Publisher
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The New Heroes tells the dramatic stories of 14 daring people from all corners of the globe who, against all odds, are successfully alleviating poverty and illness, combating unemployment and violence, and bringing education, light, opportunity and freedom to poor and marginalized people around the world.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Secret of the Andes: "A young girl who is always in trouble travels to Argentina with her archeologist father"--Container.
Hollywood safari: "An animal-training family loses their lion who is then blamed for the actions of a wild look-alike"--Container.
Lassie: the painted hills: "After Jonathan Harvey strikes gold, he goes with his new partner to sort out his findings and leaves his collie Shep to care for the orphaned son of his former partner"--Container.
River's...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
The stand: The U.S. government denies that there's a problem when the horrifying deaths begin, but within a few days, only one percent of the world's population is left alive after a deadly virus escapes from a California research lab. The shattered remnants of humanity face the end of civilization and the beginning of the ultimate battle between good and evil.
The Langoliers:...