James Cameron
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In 1990, a bulldozer accidentally uncovered a first-century tomb in Jeruslem.--Container" Has the tomb of Jesus Christ been found? With the help of archaeologists, DNA analysts, biblical scholars, and statisticians, join award-winning filmmaker James Cameron as he follows a trail of clues that could lead to the greatest discovery of all time.
4) Avatar
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jake Sully is a former Marine who uses a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recruited for a highly secret and dangerous mission in the jungles of Vietnam to locate missing American POW's, John Rambo is deserted and left in the hostile jungle with only his knife, bow, and arrows. With the help of a Vietnamese girl, he vows to bring revenge to all who have become his enemies.
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 p. : ill.)
Description
A lethal cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back from 2029 A.D. to present day Los Angeles on a mission to kill the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. The original Terminator cyborg is reprogrammed and sent to save the boy, assisted by the boy's mother, a woman warrior whose warnings of a world headed toward nuclear disaster go unheeded.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (192 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, it begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
8) True Lies
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Tasker is a top spy for the ultra-secret Omega Sector, but his wife thinks he's just a boring computer salesman. Then his two lives collide when he and his wife find themselves kidnapped by international terrorists.
9) Aliens
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After half a century in suspended animation the sole survivor of a doomed star freighter is sent back to the remote planet and breeding grounds of the aliens with a team of hand-picked warriors to destroy the menace forever.
10) Sanctum
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"... a thrilling underwater adventure based on true events. Master diver Frank McGuire leads a team--including his 17-year-old son--to explore the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. But when a tropical storm cuts off their only escape route, the team must work together to find their way through an uncharted and dangerous underwater labyrinth to make it out alive. With time running out, can they survive, or will they...
11) The Terminator
Pub. Date
[2001], c1984
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Alita awakens with no memory in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman. Ido also tries to shield Alita from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she...