Steven Zaillian
1) The Irishman
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.
2) Moneyball
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
3) The night of
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (524 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Lucas is the number one importer of heroin in Harlem. His product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. Richie Roberts is a dedicated police officer who heads up a joint narcotics task force and is determined to bring down Lucas' drug empire. Based on a true story.
8) Red sparrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Series
Language
English
Description
CIA Agent Jack Ryan is appointed as acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence when his mentor, Admiral James Greer, becomes gravely ill. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands.
11) The night of
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 524 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD)(166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After a bloody clash Vallon is dead, and his son Amsterdam Vallon ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, Amsterdam returns to seek vengeance against the man who killed his father.
13) Schindler's list
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The incredible true story follows the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
16 film reels of 16 on 8 (ca. 157 min., ca. 14,130 ft.) : sd., col. ; 35 mm.
Language
English
Description
In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.
16) Hannibal
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the asylum in Baltimore, Dr. Hannibal Lecter moves to Florence, where he becomes one of the curators of the Palazzo Vecchio. His cover is broken when a cop turns Dr. Lecter over to his old patient, Mason Verger. FBI agent Clarice Starling finds out about Verger's twisted plot to seek revenge against Lecter and will do anything to make sure that he doesn't succeed.
17) Awakenings
Pub. Date
1990, p1997.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
18) The Interpreter
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc, PG-13, (129 min.) : sd., color, [closed] captioned; 4 3/4 in. + no index guide.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Secret Service agent Tobin Keller is assigned to investigate a translator working at the United Nations who claims to have overheard an assassination plot.
19) Schindler's list
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 196 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD)( 273 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Civil Action: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. Though his latest case at first appears straightforward, Schlichtmann soon becomes entangled in an epic legal battle...one where he's willing to put his career, reputation and all that he owns on the line for the rights of his clients.
The Insider: Pacino stars as veteran 60 Minutes producer...