Ennio Morricone
1) Ennio
Author
Description
Giuseppe Tornatore pays tribute to Ennio Morricone in a moving and comprehensive documentary portrait of the prolific composer, exploring the breadth of the maestro's career across the hundreds of unforgettable film scores that he wrote.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (55 min., 42 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Il Volo's new much-awaited album dedicated to Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century, features 14 songs with some of the maestro's most famous and unforgettable melodies.
10) Abraham
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (187 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Abraham leaves the pagan land of Ur for the promised land of Canaan, after being promised by God that doing so will cause his descendents to become a great and numerous tribe.
11) City of joy
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An American doctor, a British nurse and an illiterate Indian farmer join together to transform a Calcutta ghetto when it is threatened by the brutal local "godfather."
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged)
Description
On an unforgiving, snow swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence stands between the innocent refugees and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. However, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren't always clear and good doesn't always triumph....
14) Mission to Mars
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
NASA launches a Mars Recovery Mission to investigate and bring back survivors from the first manned mission to Mars which has mysteriously disappeared.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Losing their lead on the blizzard, they seek refuge at Minnie's, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our travelers come...
16) The mission
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield the Guarani South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires.
17) Amira
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (33 min.) : digital, CD audio, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
18) Bugsy
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked backwater into an international entertainment Mecca. Nobody...
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 p. ; 18 cm.)
Description
The film is considered one of the most influential political films in history, by Gillo Pontecorvo. Vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, etc. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques...
20) The untouchables
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A larger-than-life depiction of Al Capone, the warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago ... and Eliot Ness, the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. In this classic confrontation between good and evil, Ness learns, with the help of a cop named Malone, how to beat the mob by shooting fast and shooting first.