Leon Rippy
1) The Alamo
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers - including William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie - retreat within the walls of the Alamo, a Franciscan mission that was converted into a military fort. Once inside, the men prepare themselves for what will be a bloody battle to the death. U.S. General Sam Houston leads the charge from the outside. The...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sleepy desert town of Prosperity, Arizona, is being menaced by giant arachnids that have mutated through exposure to toxic waste. The local sheriff and her teenage daughter work to prevent a complete takeover by the bloodthirsty spiders, getting valuable help from Prosperity's prodigal son, who's just returned to his embattled hometown.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reporter is sent to chronicle the last days of an anti-death penalty activist now living on death row, after having been convicted of the murder of a fellow activist. The reporter grows to suspect he may have been framed, and sets out to verify her doubts.
David Gale era un miembro activo de Deathwatch, un grupo activista en contra de la pena de muerte. Constance era una activista compañera de Deathwatch. Cuando se encuentra a Constance violada...
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 836 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All of your burning questions are finally answered in the electrifying final season of the emotionally gripping and darkly humorous show. Grace Hanadarko is the hard-living detective with an angel on her shoulder. As she continues her relentless search for the truth she faces homicides, bombings, a mysterious girl in a coma, and a miraculous near-death experience.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story....
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (576 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grace Hanadarko is a hard-living Oklahoma City detective whose life is careening out of control. Grace is given a second chance in the unlikely form of a gruff, tobacco-chewing angel named Earl. But turning her life around won't be easy. As dark secrets are revealed, Grace must come to grips with her explosive past and she's going to need her last-chance-angel more than ever.
8) Kuffs
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A slacker joins the police force to hunt down his brother's killer. In 1851, San Francisco could not afford enough policemen to protect its population. So the city was divided into districts which were sold to private citizens. Merchants who wanted to, paid these men for police protection. Today, the men and women who own these districts are called Patrol Specials.
9) The Alamo
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers - including William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie - retreat within the walls of the Alamo, a Franciscan mission that was converted into a military fort. Once inside, the men prepare themselves for what will be a bloody battle to the death. U.S. General Sam Houston leads the charge from the outside. The...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
19 videodiscs (ca. 2160 min.): sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...