Sam Neill
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion.
By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand...
2) The hunter
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, posing as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led down a path of unforeseen dangers, complicating his deadly...
3) The vow
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young couple have a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. After she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband sets his sights on winning her heart again.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Business is booming for Birmingham's Peaky Blinders gang, but that's not enough for its dangerous leader Tommy Shelby. As Shelby battles to keep a stronghold on his evil underworld, he risks his life encroaching on the turf of volatile gang leader Alfie Solomons.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young owl Soren marvels at his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, mythic winged warriors who fought a great battle to save all owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. When he and brother Kludd fall from their treetop home and into the talons of the Pure Ones, it's up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave owls.
7) The commuter
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
8) Blackbird
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lily and Paul summon their loved ones to their country house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her life on her terms after a long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily's daughters Jennifer and Anna. Joining the collective farewell is Lily's son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter's partner, and grandson.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the world teeters on the brink of war, ten strangers are persuaded to retreat from their troubled lives to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. When a storm cuts them off from the mainland, the true reason for their presence on the island becomes horribly clear: they are to be executed, one by one.
11) Jurassic Park
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
5 DVD-videos (574 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate one of the biggest movie franchises of all time with the Jurassic World 5-movie collection! From Academy Award winning director Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park), Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III), Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World), and J.A. Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen kingdom), dinosaurs once again roam the Earth in an amazing theme park on a remote island, and beyond! The action-packed adventures find man...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (556 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
King Henry VIII: young, sexy and the most powerful man in the world. The throne and the entire world became his at age 19. This television series reveals the early years of the passionate, vibrant and scandalous man who forever changed the course of history.
14) Sweet Country
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia’s Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighbouring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam’s relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in self-defence. As a result, Sam becomes a wanted...
15) Peaky Blinders
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham that follows the notorious gang, who got their name from sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, a man dead set on moving up in the world, no matter the cost.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
17) Blackbird
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lily and Paul summon their loved ones to their country house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her life on her terms after a long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily's daughters Jennifer and Anna. Joining the collective farewell is Lily's son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter's partner, and grandson.
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures, he has no idea that he was brought along for a totally different reason. When their plane crashes and they become stranded, they discover the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal than imagined.
19) Bicentennial man
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy about an android "household appliance" robot who just wants to be a regular guy.
20) Peter Rabbit
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer's vegetable garden.