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1) Logan's Run
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2274, civilization exists under a huge dome, and everyone is encouraged to lead a pleasure-filled lifestyle. There's just one hitch - no one is allowed to live past the age of 30.
2) Shaft
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters,...
3) Braveheart
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Wallace, a bold Scotsman, uses the steel of his sword and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation from the English occupation of Scotland.
Series
Language
English
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
5) U-571
Language
English
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Formats
Description
1942 and Hitler's U-boats have brought war to the United States. On a top-secret assignment, a U.S. Navy captain and his crew must disguise themselves as Nazis and infiltrate a severely damaged Nazi U-boat. Once on board, they are to steal the Nazis' top-secret decoding device and sink the sub before the Germans catch on to what's happening. Their mission is more dangerous and frightening than anything they could have ever imagined, but one which...
Language
English
Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of two English runners that were both driven by different means to win the Olympics. One used his faith in God, and the other his hatred of anti-Semitism. Features include: additional scenes, interviews, featurettes, director's commentary and more.
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mike Sullivan is a mob hitman and a loving, devoted father. When his son witnesses a killing, another hitman is sent to kill Mike and his family. With his wife and one son dead, Mike and his other son are out for revenge. Set in Depression-era Chicago.
11) South Pacific
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of sailors put on a musical during the war in the South Pacific. Bonus features include commentary, sing-along subtitles, documentaries, vintage stage excerpts and screen tests.
12) The Last Emperor
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic that details the life of Pu Yi, crowned at the age of three as the last emperor of China before the Communist reign. Follow him from his childhood to manhood to fugitive to puppet ruler to party proletariat. Includes commentary and booklet.
13) Being There
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chance is a pure-hearted gardener forced out of moneyed seclusion and into the urban wilds of Washington, D.C., after the death of his employer. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles haplessly into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon who mistakes his new protégé's mumbling about horticulture for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife targets Chance...
14) The Harvey Girls
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Susan meets a cheery group of young women traveling out to open a 'Harvey House' restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers.
16) Mildred Pierce
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent’s tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.
17) Key Largo
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but it’s nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-Gl Frank McCloud.
18) The King and I
Language
English
Description
An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but ruins the country's traditions during her work. Bonus features include commentary, the story of The King and I, vintage stage excerpts, Movietone News, and much more.
19) Pulp Fiction
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy bread is hired as Macy’s department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit...except for his boss, Doris Walker, who’s raising her daughter to not believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane and put on trial, everyone’s faith is put to the test.
Bonus Extras include Feature...
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