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Language
English
Description
Each year more than 3 million high school students take the SAT or ACT, the college entrance exams required by most four-year colleges in the United States. For decades, however, there have been questions about exactly what these tests measure, what role they play in the admissions process and how predictive they are of academic success.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
During the summer after their first year of college, four young women stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.
Language
English
Description
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Relive the trials and tribulations of college as Buffy, Willow and Oz experience their freshman year at UC Sunnydale. Between juggling term papers, frat parties and a demonic roommate, Buffy must also battle a gang of vampire thieves."---www.foxtvdvd.com.
5) Waiting
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Dean and Monty are two longtime friends who work as waiters as Shenanigan's, a "fun" chain restaurant. Both have been working at the restaurant for about four years and it has only recently occurred to Dean that he has nothing to show for his life but a community college diploma and his name tag from work. He has developed a sudden urgency to make something of himself. Monty, on the other hand, is more interested in making time with the women on the...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Canada
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's senior year for Archie and the gang in season four, which means football games, River Vixens, parties, a new principal, and the ever-dreaded college applications. But the senior year also means bittersweet moments like the first last day of high school.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Day the 60s Died chronicles May 1970, the month in which four students were shot dead at Kent State. The mayhem that followed has been called the most divisive moment in American history since the Civil War. From college campuses, to the jungles of Cambodia, to the Nixon White House, The Day the 60s Died takes us back into that turbulent spring 45 years ago.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"It's senior year for Dawson, Joey, Pacey, Jen and Jack! After spending the summer together, Joey and Pacey find it diffcult to keep their romance going with the realities of school, college applications and their strained relationship with Dawson. Dawson rediscovers his true life's dream, Jen turns over a new leaf after getting a new boyfriend, and Jack tries to rebuild relationships after revealing he's gay"--Container.
Publisher
Direct Holdings Americas Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Kevin and Winnie are starting ninth grade at different schools. Norma takes a job at Kevin's school, Jack gets a promotion, Wayne buys a car and Karen starts college. Kevin gets his first job caddying, is guilted into taking Paul's little sister to cotilion, and tries to crash a tenth-grader's slumber party (with beer). He also finds Coach Cutlip moonlighting as the mall Santa after subjecting the gym class to Death Ball and the President's All-American...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Rich, in his final year of college, and laden with a shameful secret, persuades his three best friends to stay in town with him over the Thanksgiving holiday as a last hurrah. They receive a mysterious invitation to 'The Show,' an interactive theatre adventure. Tricked into playing along, they find themselves in an inverted escape room. Trying to find their way home and discover what The Show is, they encounter a cultish group, two dudes who seem...
Publisher
ESPN Films
Pub. Date
c2010-2011
Language
English
Description
Volume 1: Kings ransom: "On August 9, 1988, the NHL was forever changed with the single stroke of a pen when the Edmonton Oilers sent Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings. Acclaimed director Peter Berg (Friday night lights, the kingdom) presents the captivating story of the trade that knocked the wind out of an entire country and placed a star-studded city at the feet of a 27-year-old kid known simply as 'The Great One'...The band that wouldn't...
14) Career girls
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Two unlikely college roommates become close friends amidst a dizying whirl of books, booze and boyfriends. Reunited six years after graduation, Annie and Hannah take a funny, poignant look at the girls they were and the women they have become"--Container.
Publisher
Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Daniel is 15 years old and has a passion for football, with hopes for a college football scholarship. Raised by his grandmother since he was four, he is very close to her. Then he must make a life-altering decision, sacrificing one of his loves.
16) Peter's friends
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ten years after they were members of a music and comedy troupe at Cambridge University, a diverse group of friends in their early 30s gather at the expansive estate of Peter Morton in 1992. Various jealousies and fears are revealed between joyous feasts.
Series
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
The wild one: Brando ignites a revolution as the leader of a biker gang that invades a small, sleepy California town. Hell-bent on destruction, everything changes when he falls for the daughter of the sheriff and a rival gang rolls in.
The freshman: Clark (Broderick) is a naive college student who accepts an offer he can't refuse from a New York mob boss, Carmine Sabatini (Brando). Trapped in a comic nightmare, he falls deeper into a scam while...