Universal Pictures Company.
1) The birds
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joseph Cotten stars as Uncle Charlie, a calculating and charming killer who hides out in his relatives' small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, Young Charlie. But she begins to suspect he may be the famed Merry Widow murderer. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret.
5) Twisters
Language
English
Formats
Description
An update to the 1996 film 'Twister', which centered on a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives in an attempt to test an experimental weather alert system.
6) Shenandoah
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A Virginia farmer during the Civil War refuses to support either the Confederacy or the Union until his son is taken prisoner and, seeing the horrors of war first-hand, he is forced at last to take his stand.
8) First man
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong₂s perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost, on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself; of one of the most dangerous missions in history.
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(1 hrs., 24 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The reputaion of voluptuous Flowerbelle Lee (West) is tarnished when she is seen embracing a masked bandit in her bedroom. Forced to leave town until she can return married and respectable, FLowerbelle boards a train where she meets the incorrigible Guthbert J. Twillie (Fields) and soon accepts his marriage proposal. The hilarous adventures continue as the newlyweds journey to the Last Gasp saloon in this rollicking romp"--Container.
10) Mercury rising
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent tries to save an autistic child who cracked a top-secret government code. Baldwin is the amoral head of the National Security Agency who wants the kid dead.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 747 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Enjoy popular films based on organized crime. Titles included: The Kitchen, American Gangster, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Black Mass, The Town and Eastern Promises.
The kitchen: Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving...
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(1 hrs., 9 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A zany scientist in China invents a radio you can see : television. Every country wants to buy the rights, so characters from around the world converge on China and collide into a free-wheeling double-dealing variety show.
14) Spartacus
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)( 72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"W.C. Fields is the Great McGonigle, manager of a theatrical troupe. Notorious for skipping out on bills and failing to pay actors, he next descends on a small town where he sets his sights on the hospitality of a wealthy widow."--Container.
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(1 hrs., 19 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Larson E. Whipsnade, the raconteur and ringmaster of the Circus Giganticus, an outfit which is perpetually in debt, is on the run from the law and on the lam from creditors.
17) Joe Kidd
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Kidd, which concerns a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, marks Clint Eastwood at the top of his form as a western hero. Like a very classic western, it has gunfights, conflicts, and a slambang finale which has a locomotive being driven through a saloon where the bad guys are hiding.
18) Poppy
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)( 74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"W.C. Fields plays a charlatan who attempts to persuade an entire town that his daughter is actually heiress to an unclaimed fortune."--Container.
19) The far country
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A solid western saga set against the colorful, scenic backdrop of Alaskan mining camps.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88, 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Massacre at Fort Holman:" During the Civil War a Union colonel seeks revenge against the man who killed his wife during a Confederate raid against Fort Holman. "Hot Lead:" A new rancher attempts to support his family while dealing with rivals and his own personal demons.