Ennio Morricone
1) Bugsy
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the 1940's, mobster Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is inspired by his mistress Virginia Hill to follow his dream and build the now-famous Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Irena is a mysterious Ukrainian woman with a secret who works her way into the lives of an Italian, affluent young family. She stops at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter. But deep cracks underneath Irena's dedication soon become apparent as her horrific past and chilling obsession are revealed.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the American Civil War, three men seek hidden loot. With greed as their sole motivation, they overcome anything that gets in their way--including each other. Very violent and drawn out western.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in thirty years and looks back on his life. As a young boy he was befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As he grew up, he learned to love films, and was encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (186 min. ) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the early years of Karol Jozef Wojtyla. It covers his birth in southern Poland, his university work in Krakow and his experience during WWII. The film explores Karol's rise in the church, culminating with his election as Pope.
8) Fateless
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
During World War II, a Jewish boy from Budapest is separated from his family and sent to the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny. Trevanny reluctantly accepts the offer and the situation quickly...
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD)(123 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafes. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
Series
Language
English
Description
A plains drifter cowboy single-handedly rescues a local nun from a gang of attackers. After meeting a band of Mexican revolutionaries, who are resisting the French occupation of Mexico, the cowboy and Sister Sara decide to join forces with the freedom fighters and set off on a deadly mission to capture the enemy's garrison. But along the way the soft spoken hero discovers that the nun is not what she seems.
13) The untouchables
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of mob warlord Al Capone who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago ... and Eliot Ness, the law enforcer, who vowed to bring him down. A classic confrontation between good and evil, and how with the help of a cop named Malone, Ness learns how to beat the mob by shooting fast and shooting first.
14) Moses
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (182 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of reluctant leader Moses leading the Jews out of bondage in Egypt.
16) City of joy
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American doctor, a British nurse and an illiterate Indian farmer join together to transform a Calcutta ghetto when it is threatened by the brutal local "godfather."
17) Abraham
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (187 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abraham leaves the pagan land of Ur for the promised land of Canaan, after being promised by God that doing so will cause his descendents to become a great and numerous tribe.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a Vatican official, who, under threat of death from the Gestapo, saved prisoners of war and others from the German forces occupying Rome during World War II.