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-- Beautiful peoplec2009., Adult, Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic Beautiful P Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A modern take on Madame de La Fayette's classic novel, "The Princess of Cleves".
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2012, p2011., Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic Detachment Edition: Widescreen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Henry Barthes is an educator with a talent to connect with his students. Yet as a substitute teacher he hides his gift to avoid emotional connections. When an assignment places him at a school with a burned-out administration and an apathetic student body, he becomes a role model as a teacher. His emotional bond with the students and teachers help him see he is not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.
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2007., Adult, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic History B Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
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2024., Adult, Universal Call No: NEW DVD Fic Holdovers Edition: Collector's edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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2012., General, distributed exclusively in Canada by Les Films Séville, an affiliate of Entertainment One Call No: DVD Fic Monsieur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "While going through his own personal tragedy, Bachir Lazhar, a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, is hired as a substitute in an elementary school after the abrupt death of a teacher. With great sensitivity and humour, Monsieur Lazhar depicts the encounter of two distant worlds: that of an immigrant and a group of shaken but endearing kids who, together, will transcend their losses."--Container.
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2004., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: SC DVD Fic Prime Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Studio classic.Summary Note: A teacher in a 1920s Scottish girls' school captivates her students with her fascist ideals and free-thinking attitude.
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Adult Call No: DVD Fic Whiplash Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite East coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into his band.