DESCRIPTIVE VIDEOS - Braille Institute

Sitting in Limbo
DVS 376
An intimate, honest look at the troubled lives of black teenagers in Montreal
starring Dillon and Fabian Gibbs.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
DVS 263
Gravely injured while on safari in Africa, a successful but world-weary novelist
broods on his life of high adventure and passionate love affairs. Starring Gregory
Peck, Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward. (Based on the novel by Ernest
Hemingway, BR 12314 and RC 20451.)
Sophie's Choice
DVS 171
Meryl Streep portrays a Polish Catholic immigrant who has survived a Nazi
concentration camp and struggles to find love and happiness in her life.
The St. Louis Bank Robbery
DVS 375
A young Steve McQueen stars in this gritty 1958 crime drama about a college
dropout down on his luck, who’s recruited by a boyhood friend to be the
wheelman on a daring daylight heist the friend is planning with two other ex-cons.
Based on a true story, this utterly compelling film contains violence and adult
situations.
Stand and Deliver
DVS 169
Based on a true story, this is an inspirational story of a math teacher at East Los
Angeles' Garfield High who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers.
The film stars Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia and Lou Diamond Phillips.
A Star Is Born
DVS 239
In this Oscar-winning classic, a young farm girl (Janet Gaynor) determined to
become a movie star, discovers the delights and the dues of having her dream
come true. With Frederic March as the star she marries and eclipses.
The Stars Look Down
DVS 340
When the son of generations of coal miners earns a university scholarship, it's a
ticket out of the "pit." But Davey Fennick (Michael Redgrave) intends to use his
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