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By Kennedy, Kathleen, 1954- Marshall, Frank Chaffin, Cen Roth, Eric, 1945- Swicord, Robin Fincher, David Pitt, Brad, 1963- Blanchett, Cate, 1969- Henson, Taraji P Ormond, Julia Flemyng, Jason Ali, Mahershalalhashbaz Koteas, Elias, 1961- Harris, Jared, 1961- Somerville, Phyllis Swinton, Tilda Desplat, Alexandre Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Curious[2009], Paramount Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Cur Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 little chance of survival. He does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by Thomas Button, his biological father, after Benjamin's biological mother dies in childbirth, Benjamin is raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors' home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when they finally match up in age. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read.
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-- Les figures de l'ombre[2017], Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Edition: [English/Spanish/Fr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
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[2017]., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD 791.43 Hid Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s.
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[2017], Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD 791.43 HID Edition: [English/Spanish/Fr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
