Irwin Winkler
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ink-setter in New York returns to his family's home, a fishing town in Newfoundland, with his daughter after a traumatizing experience with her mother. His articles find an audience and the town changes his life.
2) GoodFellas
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man grows up in the mob and works hard to advance himself through the ranks, enjoying the life of the rich and violent.
Publication Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director. In order to revive his stalled career, he is asked to testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists.
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of Italian Americans who run two separate mafia families in the mid-twentieth century. Genovese attempted to murder Costello in 1957, although Costello retired from the mob.
5) Survivor
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Foreign Service Officer newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the US. After surviving a vicious attack on the embassy, she finds herself framed for crimes she didn't commit and racing to elude assassins while trying to clear her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve.
6) Rocky II
Publication Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the rematch of the century as Rocky Balboa takes on Apollo Creed in this powerful follow-up to one of the most acclaimed movies in film history. After club fighter Rocky Balboa goes the distance with heavyweight champ Apollo Creed, boxing fans clamour for a rematch. The ring beckons once more, and the "Italian Stallion" must prepare for the fight of his life.
7) Creed
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
Publication Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The haunting madness and desperation of Depression-era marathon dance contest participants. Brought together by chance, Gloria and Robert test the limits of their friendship and physical endurance, encouraged by the manipulative contest promoter."
9) Creed lll
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian a fighter who has nothing to lose.
10) Point blank
Publication Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A professional criminal helps pull off an underworld heist, then is gunned down and left for dead. He resurfaces to track down his share of the loot.
11) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (209 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
12) The right stuff
Publication Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (193 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton -- the seven men chosen for the Mercury Project manned space flight program in the U.S.
13) Life as a house
Publication Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A terminally ill man attempts to simultaneously reconnect with his estranged son and build the house of his dreams.
14) 'Round midnight
Series
Criterion collection volume 1122
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 17 cm, folded to 17 x 12)
Description
It is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character that was nominated for an Oscar, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching...
15) Survivor
Author
Description
After being mysteriously framed for a terrorist bombing, a Foreign Service Officer (Milla Jovovich) must evade government capture and death by a ruthless assassin (Pierce Brosnan) in order to stop the real perpetrators' master-and much deadlier-plan.