Jason Robards
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (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 James₂ sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of...
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 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...
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 660 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
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.
6) Magnolia
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 189 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"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."--Container.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seven World War II artists present an intimate and often startling look at combat and the task of transforming the horrors of war into stark, revealing, and enduring works of art. Artists featured include Franklin Boggs, Howard Brodie, Manuel Bromberg, William Draper, Richard Gibney, Robert Greenhalgh, Edward Reep.
8) Quick change
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trio rob a bank in New York City then have problems getting out of the city with the money.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert ([2] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
The life and work of artist Thomas Hart Benton as shown through his paintings, through old newsreels, and through interviews with people who knew him.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack.
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of the creation of radio and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Nebraskan girl named Addie wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree. Her bitter, widowed father refuses, but slowly, with the help of Grandma, learns the spirit of the season.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What's she got? Kings over queens? Four aces? Straight flush? Whatever the beautiful blonde holds, watch out! An Old West caper about a Texas town's humdinger of a poker game. A ‘reformed’ gambler and homesteader sits down at the card table, loses his family's $4000 startup stake, and then is dealt a fantastic hand. What happens next is full deck of suspense, humor and surprises, many involving an aces-high ensemble and the newcomer's wife, who...
19) Philadelphia
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of two competing lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.