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Author
Language
English
Description
A group of Americans are interested in raising the ill-fated Ocean liner Titanic. One of the team members finds out the Russians also have plans to raise the ship from its watery grave. Why all the interest? A rare mineral on-board could be used to power a sound beam that will knock any missile out of the air when entering United States airspace!
3) Truman
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 260 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Harry S. Truman's life, with comments by contemporaries and historians.
Series
Publisher
CBS Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Addie Mills is a smart and strong-willed young girl living in Nebraska in the 1940s with her sensible but stubborn father, James, and her loving, quirky Grandma. In The House Without A Christmas Tree, all Addie wants is to have a Christmas tree for the first time. But James refuses due to a painful family memory. Trouble ensues in The Thanksgiving Treasure when Addie tries to invite Jame's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending...
5) Quick Change
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Bill Murray, Academy Award winner Geena Davis and Randy Quaid star as a trio of first-time bank robbers who commit an audaciously perfect crime ... but then find the heist much easier than getting out of New York City with the loot in this hilarious crime caper.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1962.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (170 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Eugene O'Neill's magnificent autobiographical account of his turbulent family life is brought to the screen with an overpowering wealth of talent. Katharine Hepburn as the mother - lonely, ravaged by narcotics and frightened by a world with which she cannot cope. Ralph Richardson as the alcoholic father, a miser embittered by his expired career. Jason Robards as the tortured older brother, a failure to everyone including himself. And Dean Stockwell...
Series
Publisher
distributed by Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min. and 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following a nuclear strike against the United States, families in small-town Kansas try to survive as radiation slowly kills everything around them.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1969.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (166 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. Official Selection by the **National Film Preservation Board.** "*Long live Leone's timeless monument to the death of the West itself, rivalled only by Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid for the title of best ever made.*" - ***Time Out***
10) The Civil War
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (700 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
11) A thousand acres
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the saga of the Cook family. Cook's kingdom is a fertile farm that spans 1,000 acres, but the seeds of its destruction are sown when the patriarch, Larry Cook, impulsively decides to distribute it among his three daughters, Ginny, Rose, and Caroline.
12) Parenthood
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[p2007]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham lies trapped in a hospital bed. He is a fully conscious quadruple amputee who cannot speak, hear or see. He is left to wander within his own mind and goes between his harsh reality and memories of a happier life long gone. Delve into the mind of a man lost somewhere on the edges of sanity and insanity, life and death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1224
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (345 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Peckinpah's cycle of genre-redefining westerns ended with this blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality. As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid across the plains, their old friendship is twisted into rivalry, and mythic ideals of freedom come up against an emerging ruling-class order all to the strains of a haunting soundtrack by Bob Dylan...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious loner, a falsely accused renegade, a young widow, a railroad magnate and his vicious hired gun cross paths in a tale of land grabbing, greed and murder in the old West.
16) Magnolia
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 189 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Magnolia is a mosaic of American life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Through a collusion of coincidence, chance, human action, shared media, past history and divine intervention, nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax. Some will seek forgiveness, others escape. Some will mend frayed bonds, others will be exposed"--Back of container
17) Polar bear alert
Publisher
NGHT, Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
" ... takes viewers on a journey to Churchill, Manitoba, where the residents have learned to live with a unique wildlife problem. Each fall the largest, most deadly carnivore in the Arctic migrates through this isolated Canadian village on an annual northward trek. For scientists, the migration presents a unique chance to observe the bears. For residents, it is a season of apprehension"--Container.
Author
Language
English
Description
When the cruelest teacher ever to teach in Gloucester High School is bedridden, he unwittingly hires former student Kathleen Hogan as his caregiver. Although the teachers flunked the now 40-something ex-student, Hogan refuses to exact revenge. This interesting story of redemption is heart-moving and hilarious.
20) The Good Mother
Author
Language
English
Description
Having weathered an early and unexciting marriage, recent divorcee Anna Dunlap is just beginning to adjust to her life as a single parent when she falls in love with Leo Cutter, an enigmatic Irish sculptor who captivates the shy piano teacher with his unconventional attitudes and ideas. Liberated by their unchecked passion for each other and the growing sense of personal freedom that she experiences as a result of their union, Anna believes she has...
