Jerry Goldsmith
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.
2) Matinee
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Movie promoter Lawrence Woolsey bring his unique brand of flashy showmanship to the unsuspecting residents of Key West, Florida. Fifteen-year-old fan Gene Loomis can't wait for Woolsey's arrival, who is in town to promote his latest offering of atomic power gone berserk. His vision takes on a sudden urgency as the Cuban Missile Crisis places the real threat of atomic horror just 90 miles off the coast.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this suspenseful romantic thriller, Julia Roberts stars as Laura, a young woman who thinks she's found the man of her dreams in Martin (Patrick Bergin). Only after they are married does she discover the real Martin--compulsive, controlling and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear and dread, Laura finally escapes, only to have Martin track her down.
7) Logan's run
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 23rd century, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. Logan 5, a Sandman authorized to terminate Runners fleeing Carrousel, decides to become a Runner himself...
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
9) Patton
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four American astronauts crashland on an unchartered planet and discover it is ruled by a race of intelligent apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) soon finds himelf among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall).
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 48 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After landing himself in jail trying to break out his friend, Jack Burns finds himself alone and on the run from the law. Leading the manhunt is Sheriff Morey Johnson, who must bring Burns to justice despite his own sympathy for the fugitive.
12) Rio Lobo
Pub. Date
2003, c1970
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.
13) The 13th warrior
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters.
14) Capricorn One
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An investigative reporter gets wind that something is amiss...
15) The sand pebbles
Pub. Date
[2001].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
16) First blood
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ex-Green Beret, a peacetime misfit, is haunted by memories of Vietnam. Falling foul of an over-zealous small-town sheriff, all hell is let loose as he goes on the run. In the life or death manhunt that ensues, he will need all his old skills to stay alive and outwit his pursuers--the sheriff and his posse, and more than 200 National Guardsmen.
17) In harm's way
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (167 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attack on the naval base.
18) Rudy
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.
20) Papillon
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thrilling adventure of an escape from a French Guiana prison.