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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a remote forest, a hunter discovers a mummified corpse and a diary, detailing the man's thoughts as he commits suicide through self-imposed starvation. Based on an incredible true story, the Sound of insects is a stunning investigation into the man's enigmatic self-destructive motivations.
2) Memento Mori
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Min-Ah discovers a shared diary and is fascinated to learn that two schoolmates she thought to be close friends have, in fact, begun a forbidden romance. Unable to tear her eyes away, the secret allure of the diary begins to consume her. When one of the diary's writers is found dead from an apparent suicide, rumors spread and Min-Ah begins to sense a strange presence. The once tranquil school is transformed into a morbid place of terror, as if the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Early in the 20th century new opportunities were opened to Japanese women, thanks to modern consumer goods and to the new technologies of self-awareness offered by snapshot cameras, family albums, and mass produced diary books.Nakano Makiko and her family were on the hinge of historical change in 1910, the year that she kept a daily record of her activities as the young wife in a busy merchant household in Kyoto.
4) Naples '44
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing down everything that happened to him during his one-year stay, observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived unbelievable methods of survival on a daily basis. These notes turned into his masterpiece, a memoir titled NAPLES ‘44. Francesco Patierno's new documentary imagines Lewis returning many years later to...
5) The notebook
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love one summer, but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite seven years later, their passionate romance is rekindled, forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.
6) The notebook
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival but are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie must now choose...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Greg Heffley's dad threatens to send him to military school if he doesn't stay out of trouble, Greg finds all-new ways to land himself in the doghouse! For starters, Greg's in over his head when he pretends to work at the swanky country club where Rowley's family has a membership. Things don't go much better on a father-son camping trip with the Wilderness Explorers, and then there's the Heffley's new dog, Sweetie, who fetches even more trouble...
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. It's a place rigged with hundreds of social landmines, not the least of which are morons, wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment to the cafeteria floor - and a festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties. To survive the never-ending ordeal and attain the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, Greg devises an endless series of can't-miss schemes, all of which,...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Your basic Cinderella makeover story with a fresh and affectionate twist. Mia is a frizzy-haired, glasses-wearing 15-year-old girl whose two highest ambitions are to become invisible and to get a few kisses from an attractive school heartthrob. She is stunned and horrified when her coolly continental grandmother shows up and informs her that she's the crown princess of the European principality Genovia. Soon enough, Mia has to undertake "princess...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
Series
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
In Fielding's reinterpretation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, slightly overweight 30-something London single woman Bridget Jones (Zellweger) is goodhearted, insecure, bumbling, and desperate-to-be-attached. On New Year's Day Bridget resolves to cut down on alcohol, cigarettes, and sweets, lose 20 pounds, and find a man, all while recording her progress and thoughts in a journal. She soon catches the eye of Daniel Cleaver (Grant) and Mark Darcy...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
A look at what life might have been like for royal teens of the past, mixing storytelling with historical facts. Includes Cleopatra VII, daughter of the Nile ; Isabel, jewel of Castilla, Spain; and Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor, England.
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