Video Service Corp.
1) Life itself
Language
English
Formats
Description
The legacy of Roger Ebert's life, recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of the world-renowned film critic and social commentator, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
IFC's hit sketch comedy series, created, written by, and starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, is driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in Portlandia, the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon, where '90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.
Publisher
Video Services Corp
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Includes all ten episodes of the second season of Portlandia, the hit sketch comedy series created and written by, and starring Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live and Carrie Brownstein from the band Sleater-Kinney. This season, the two continue skewering the weird and wonderful residents of Portland, Oregon, as well as hipsters everywhere.
5) Wreckers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A young married couple moves back to their childhood village to start a family, but a surprise visit from the husband's brother turns their lives completely upside down. She can't get pregnant so the brother offers to help and the couple's marriage is tested.
Publisher
Video Service Corp
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A hit sketch comedy series that is driven by hilarious character-based shorts, all of which take place in "Portlandia", the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon, where 90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage. Includes the 2012 winder special and all ten episodes from the third season.
8) Comedy now!
Publisher
Video Service Corp
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Russell Peters is Canada's latest comedy goldmine, yielding tons of exportable laughs derived from a variety of imported cultures. A one-man melting pot of Asian accents & characters-- Russell is one of North America's top touring comedians"--Container.
9) The lesson
Publisher
Video Services Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Nade is an honest, hard-working elementary school teacher struggling to keep her life together. With the home she shares with her husband and young daughter on the brink of repossession and no money to her name, Nade resorts to measures her former self, untouched by the realities of economic desperation and moral compromise, would have found depraved.
Publisher
Video Service Corp
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This is the first comprehensive and incredibly entertaining retrospective of the birth of Bettymania. Experience several episodes from Betty's first accliamed hit series, Life With Elizabeth (1953-55), along with Betty's own daytime series The Betty White Show. Included also is an incredibly rare episode from November 1954 where Betty sings, dances, and is joined by surprise guest Rin Tin Tin, plus a heartfelt message from Martin and Lewis!
11) Filth
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
12) Highway 61
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Video Service Corp
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A naive, small-town barber gets in way over his head when he finds a frozen human body, and meets a screwball "refugee from a heavy-metal road crew," who falsely identifies the body as her brother, and begs him to drive her and the coffin to New Orleans.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Brent and the gang discover that Dog River has been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog Riverites forever.
14) Black like me
Publisher
Video Service Corp
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the African American communities. Includes a bonus disc with the documentary "Uncommon vision:...
Publisher
Distributed by Video Services Corp
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Known as history's first 'living room war, ' the Vietnam conflict is presented with clarity, authority and insight in the nearly ten-hour documentary. Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War. This series covers the entire conflict, examining the shifting attitudes of the United States toward Vietnam from 1945, when the battleground was known as French Indochina, to 1975, when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese.