Richard Attenborough
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (151 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on a variety of four-legged and fine-feathered patients. See his secret cures and watch as ordinary and exotic animals talk, dance, and sing.
4) Elizabeth
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Queen Elizabeth I must learn to weigh her counsel carefully and ignore her private yearnings if she is to keep her crown--and her head. A thriller of intrigue in the court of one of history's greatest monarchs.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
World War II. On June 1, 1944, a United States bomber pilot crashes onto the Cave Hill just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He lives long enough to give a ring to a stranger and asks that he return it to his girlfriend. 50 years later, a young man searches for the woman to make good on a promise.
Pub. Date
2008?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
DVD-R. Based on My early life, by Winston Churchill, the film covers his school days up to the death of his father. The second half covers his military career in India and the Sudan, where he takes part in the cavalry charge at Omdurman; his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War; and his election to Parliament at age 26.
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Corky, a painfully shy, magician finds overnight success as a ventriloquist. Corky falls in love with Peggy Ann Snow and tells Fats, his brash foul-mouthed dummy, that he may leave show business. Fats becomes furious and starts manipulating Corky.
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color, black and white; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages ; illustrations ; folded to 19 x 12 cm)
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
12) Jurassic Park
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
13) A chorus line
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In preparation for a Broadway musical, a group of aspiring stage performers is put through their paces by a veteran stage director using some singular techniques.
14) Billy the Kid
Author
Description
Read by the inimitable Richard Attenborough. Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke out… Billy the Kid is told through the voice of an 80 year old man, who looks back on his life as Chelsea's champion striker until the outbreak of war in 1939 and on through his subsequent life. Billy joins Chelsea as a football apprentice, rises through the reserves to become a real champion. His passion...
15) Gandhi
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (191 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the life of Gandhi beginning with his political activities in South Africa during the late 1890's and ending with his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948. Shows the development of his philosophy of non-violence as he leads the people of India to independence from the British.
16) The Great Escape
Author
Description
Steve McQueen jumps on his motorcycle and leads the way in this thrill-packed adventure that blends top stars, a true-life WWII saga and Hollywood's gift for storytelling into a bravura, blockbuster film.
18) In Love and War
Author
Description
In war they found each other, in each other they found love. Caught in the crossfire of World War I, love was the last thing on their minds. An unlikely romance bloomed between a Red Cross nurse and her heroic, young soldier patient. Ernest Hemingway found a love that would become the inspiration for his classic novel "A Farewell to Arms".
Pub. Date
©2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (149 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
20) Grey Owl
Author
Description
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.