Marlon Brando
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Series
Language
English
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him. But the time comes when Superman's powers for good are revealed to the world...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (784 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Godfather: It is the late 1940s in New York and "Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a powerful Mafia "family." His youngest son Michael had defied Vito by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II. Michael has returned with no intention of continuing the family business, but after several assassination attempts on his father's life, Michael wants revenge on the men responsible. He is groomed as the new don, leading the family to a new era...
7) The freshman
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clark Kellogg, a naive student, accepts a job working for Carmine Sabatini, a powerful New York importer. As Clark finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into an ingenious scam, the FBI asks him to snitch on his colorful employer.
12) Guys and dolls
Series
Language
English
Description
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
13) The young lions
Series
Language
English
Description
The story of World War II from the American and the German perspectives.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Okinawa 1946: American troops are deployed to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge is well-meaning but inept, and faces a wily interpreter and a determined geisha girl, along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
15) The wild one
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Johnny is the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hellbent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop.
17) The formula
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
35 years after the disappearance of a formula developed by Germany during World War II to derive cheap, pollution-free gasoline from coal, a Los Angeles detective is on the brink of unearthing the secret which could change the couse of world history.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Major Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual whose career is languishing in the monotony of postwar Georgia, becomes obsessed with a private who is, in turn, obsessed with Penderton's frustrated and sensual wife Leonora.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets out on a journey that will take it through perilous seas to a tropical paradise -- and into history as one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for King and country.
20) Julius Caesar
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.