Eric Bana
1) Blueback
Author
Description
BLUEBACK follows Abby, a teen girl who befriends a magnificent wild blue groper while diving. When Abby realizes that the fish is under threat, she takes inspiration from her activist Mom, Dora, and takes on poachers to save her friend.
2) Chopper
Author
Description
Real-life convict and bestselling author of "How To Shoot Friends and Influence People," Mark "Chopper" Read dreams of making a name for himself as a legendary crime figure in this frightening, savagely funny true story. The son of a devoutly religious mother and a one-time soldier with a fondness for sleeping alongside a loaded gun, Chopper starts out as a wisecracking criminal failure, inside a maximum-security prison, but he manages to twist his...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller.
4) Deadfall
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Siblings Addison and Liza are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. They split up and make a run for the Canadian border in blizzard conditions, vowing to reunite in Canada. Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, and retired sheriff. It's there the siblings are reunited in a tense and thrilling showdown.
5) Hanna
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose McNulty, a once vibrant and lively beauty, has spent the majority of her adult life confined to a mental hospital in Ireland. When new chief psychiatrist Dr. Grene arrives, he takes a keen interest in Rose. He finds a hidden memoir, written over the course of decades by Rose, that unravels the mystery of her wartime love, incarceration, and the tale of her passionate, yet tortured, life.
7) Munich
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 164 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the 1972 Olympics and PLO terrorists have just kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and conflicts between Avner and his team's handler, Ephraim,...
8) Troy
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus. The result is an epic war in which the Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy, and the greatest Trojan warrior, embodies...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets...
10) Closed circuit
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One morning, a busy London market is decimated by an explosion. In the manhunt that follows, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan, who is arrested and jailed. Martin and Claudia are lawyers and ex-lovers who find themselves bound together again and put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for...
12) Star Trek
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was searching for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. He is inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet, even though he annoys his instructors. Suddenly, there is an emergency on Vulcan...
13) The dry
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with...
16) The finest hours
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.