DESCRIPTIVE VIDEOS - Braille Institute

Based on a true story, three astronauts fight a desperate battle to make it back to
earth in their damaged spacecraft. The movie stars Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and
Kevin Bacon.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
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A comic tale of a young hustler filled with drive, dreams and determination to
become a somebody. With Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid and
Micheline Lanctot. (Based on the book of the same title by Mordecai Richler,
RC 41718.)
The Arrow
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In the late 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, a team of brilliant Canadian
designers and engineers creates a supersonic jet fighter to shatter all existing speed
and altitude records, and make Canada a leader in the rapidly growing aviation
industry. Stars Andrew Divoff and William Forsythe.
Beaches
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One day at the beach Bertie White begins an abiding, improbable friendship with
Cee Cee Bloom. Against formidable odds, their friendship will survive thirty
years of marriages and careers. Stars Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey and John
Heard. (Based on the book of the same title by Iris Rainer Dart, RC 25015.)
A Beautiful Mind
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Russell Crowe stars as John Forbes Nash, Jr., the brilliant theorist who gamely
grappled with his own paranoid schizophrenia and was eventually awarded the
Nobel Prize for economics 40 years after being diagnosed. Best Supporting
Actress Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly matches Crowe every step of the way as
Forbes' long-suffering wife. Other Oscars include Best Picture and Director for
Ron Howard. (Based on the book of the same title by Sylvia Nasar, RC 47595.)
The Big Lift
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The story of an American flyboy who meets a gorgeous German woman and falls
in love amid the bombed-out ruins of post WWII Berlin. Find out if true love can
survive the misery and deception left in the wake of war. Stars Montgomery Clift
and Paul Douglas.
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