Ian McKellen
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One year. One class. One play. The Latino-and Asian-American children crowding Los Angeles' sprawling Hobart Boulevard Elementary face daunting odds: low-income households, under-funded, overcrowded school, and a neighborhood known for crime, not opportunity. Teacher Rafe Esquith expects the best from these kids, leading his fifth-graders through a rigorous core curriculum of English, mathematics, geography, and literature. The pinnacle of each year...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the comedic story of aging partners Freddie and Stuart, two men who have lived together in their Covent Garden flat for nearly 50 years. Freddie was a budding actor and Stuart worked in a bar when they first met, but their careers are pretty much over and their lives now consist of entertaining their frequent guests, making sure that their aged dog Balthazar is still breathing, and hurling caustic insults at each other.
4) The dresser
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II, a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager "Sir" who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser "Norman" must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time? And if he does, will he be able to perform that night?
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
His real name: Sir Percy Blakeney. His calling: rescuing French aristocrats from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror. Anthony Andrews is the Scarlet Pimpernel, master of disguises and formidable swordsman, in this swashbuckling story based on Baroness Orczy's classic novel.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It returns for an hour-long special series finale, charting a year in the life of our beloved characters. Freddie and Stuart are back, joined as ever by Violet, Ash, Penelope and Mason. In spring, Freddie and Stuart attempt to hide their recently gained inheritance. Violet has financial troubles after her recent divorce and Ash struggles to meet his rent. Signs of Freddie and Stuart's expenditure, soon threatens the pretense as their home is overrun...
8) Bent
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.
9) All is true
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
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) Mr. Holmes
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the...
12) Cats
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper transforms Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-shattering stage musical into a breakthrough cinematic event. The film reimagines the musical for a new generation with spectacular production design, state-of-the-art technology, and dance styles ranging from classical ballet to contemporary, hip-hop to jazz, street dance to tap. One of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, it won seven Tony Awards, including...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo's frantic attempts to make him see reason drive the Hobbit towards...
14) The good liar
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes.
15) Plenty
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.
18) X-Men
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A war is brewing between those with special powers ("mutants") and the rest of humanity -- and the only ones who can save the humans from certain destruction are a special group of mutants- the "X-Men."
19) King Lear
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Along the way they face many dangers; Bilbo meets Gollum and takes...