DESCRIPTIVE VIDEOS - Braille Institute

special paradise and live happily until the island volcano erupts and the princess’
people come for her, needing a sacrifice to appease their angry gods.
Casablanca
DVS 157
A 1943 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture about former lovers who reunite
in Morocco during the chaos of World War II in this true Hollywood classic
starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
Dirty Dancing
DVS 173
A young woman (Jennifer Grey) learns something about real life, as well as a
thing or two about dancing, during a family vacation in the early 1960's. Also
stars Patrick Swayze, Johnny Castle and Cynthia Rhodes.
The English Patient
DVS 160
During World War II in Italy, four people occupy an abandoned villa, including
an "English patient" who was badly burned in a parachute jump. These people
reveal their pasts and form new connections with one another. Cast includes
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Willem Dafoe. (Based on the book of the
same title by Michael Ondaatje, RC 35558.)
Gone with the Wind
DVS 180
A romantic Civil War epic, in which Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), a forceful
and ruthless heroine and Rhett Buttler (Clark Gable), a war profiteer, play out
their tempestuous love affair against the background of the war-torn South.
(Based on the book by Margaret Mitchell, BR 11427 and RC 33082.)
Indiscretion of an American Wife
DVS 304
In the Rome train station, a married American woman (Jennifer Jones) tries to end
an affair with her lover (Montgomery Clift) while waiting for her train to Paris.
When the couple is caught in a lover's tryst in an empty rail car, they are arrested.
The Last Time I Saw Paris
DVS 321
In Paris after WWII, a handsome reporter (Van Johnson) meets an attractive
expatriate (Donna Reed) and then, to her lasting chagrin, falls madly in love with
her ravishing younger sister (Elizabeth Taylor).
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