Tom Hanks
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
Author
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Royal Air Force officer is caught between the ravages of World War II and unrequited love. Flight Lieutenant David Bradford meets and falls in love with a beautiful Jewish girl, Sarah while recuperating from a leg wound in Jerusalem. Her family rejects him, however, and wages war on the couple by trying to keep them apart.
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ambientado en un mundo donde los juguetes tienen vida propia cuando la gente no está presente, emprende un fantástico viaje lleno de diversión visto principalmente a través de los ojos de dos juguetes rivales, Woody, un vaquero que habla de una cuerda y Buzz Lightyear, un figura de acción de superhéroe espacial. El dúo no emparejado aprende a dejar de lado sus diferencias cuando las circunstancias los separan de su dueño, Andy, y se encuentran...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
6) Toy story 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to cowboy camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody, who hasn't the slightest clue that he's a greatly valued collectible.
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mientras Andy se prepara para irse a la universidad, sus leales juguetes descubren que han sido donados a la guardería de Sunnyside, donde los niños indómitos con sus deditos pegajosos no juegan bien. Así que es todo para uno y uno para todos, ya que se unen al homólogo de Barbie, Ken, un erizo actor llamado Mr.Picklepants, y un osito de peluche rosa con aroma a fresa llamado Lots-o'-Huggin 'Bear para planificar su gran escape y asegurarse de...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 149 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase...
11) Greyhound
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the novel "The Good Shepherd" by C.S. Forester, this is the thrilling story of the leader of an Allied convoy crossing the North Atlantic in 1942 as he faces relentless attack by a Nazi submarine wolf pack. The leader of the convoy's destroyer screen is a US Navy commander making his first Atlantic crossing.
12) Cloud atlas
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
13) Turner & Hooch
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A compulsively neat detective's tidy world goes to the dogs when he is forced to team up with a drooling slob of a junkyard dog named Hooch to find a murderer.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.
15) Saving Mr. Banks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
17) Captain Phillips
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
18) Sully
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain, Chesley Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (840 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
20) The Post
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...