Summary: A television movie event based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing in rural Tennessee. This once-in-a-lifetime special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat, vividly described in the well-known song of the film's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOLSummary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: In The naked gun Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's cop Frank Drebin, who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. In Top secret an American rock star teams up with the daughter of a scientist to find the scientist before he creates the ultimate weapon, in this spoof of war epics and Elvis films. In Airplane Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTSummary: "In the late '60s, a changing social and political climate inspired a new generation to create a lifestyle outside the mainstream. Twenty-two year-old Arlo's journey to find a place for himself and his music includes a visit to his dying father in the hospital, gigs in New York and romps with his friends Alice and Ray, who run a small restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALISummary: When rock star Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss on The Ed Sullivan show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BYESummary: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESSummary: In 1936 Woody Guthrie leaves Texas and heads to California looking for work. He meets hobos, migrant workers and people down on their luck, and begins his career as a folk singer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BoundSummary: The up-and-down and then up-again story of musician Dewey Cox. Dewey's songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Dewey sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 step-kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp. He becomes addicted to and then kicks about every drug known to man. Despite it all, Cox grows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Summary: A pseudo-life story of music parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COMSummary: Alan's desire for success in music and love is hampered by one thing -- himself. He decides to leave his band and heads for New York City for a new musical adventure. There, he is only half-heartedly romancing radio DJ Sara and promoting his fledgling band, Mutual Appreciation. Alan tries to stay focused and manages to fend off some of his distractions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUTSummary: Wayne and Garth are back, this time trying to organize a rock festival. Meanwhile, Cassandra's manager is busy trying to woo her. Wayne must rush from the concert and try and stop Cassandra's wedding. The concert features Aerosmith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVd Movie Wayne'sSummary: Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mel is a free-thinking musician. When he meets Ginger, an uptight biologist, and asks her to be his new roommate, it will change both of their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KETSummary: The brief but incandescent life of rock-and-roll trailblazer Ritchie Valens is immortalized in this enthralling biopic from another Mexican American icon, Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano cinema. With sweetness and swagger, Lou Diamond Phillips embodies the 1950s California teenager who, forged by his fiercely supportive mother and rebellious brother, rises from his farm-working roots to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA BAMSummary: The story of country music singer Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WALCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED PG-13Summary: Six characters recreate different stages in Bob Dylan's career. Begins with the wanderings of an 11-year-old black runaway named Woody Guthrie. His raucous duet with Richie Havens on "Tombstone Blues." Ends with a silver-haired Billy the Kid watching the Old West die before his eyes. In the interim, there's the folk singer-turned-preacher, the actor, and a rock star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA PRISummary: The true life story of Christian music megastar Jeremy Camp and his remarkable journey of love and loss that proves there is always hope in the midst of tragedy, and that faith tested is the only faith worth sharing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD STISummary: The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2016Summary: Focuses on Bessie Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into 'The Empress of the Blues', who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESBolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023