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Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the summer of 1916, the coast along the New Jersey was thriving with tourists. The peaceful existence was shattered by a series of five shark attacks, which left four people dead during 12 days in July. Based on a true story.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 as a disaster in space pushes humankind toward World War III. James Bond travels to Japan to stop the evil SPECTRE organisation and its diabolical leader from instigating global warfare.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lola Delaney is a vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" who is married to recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney. Their unhappy marriage is made even more unhappy when a sexy stranger, Marie, rents a room from Lola. Lola is a tiresome creature who never stops talking, especially about the "imminent" return of her runaway dog Sheba. Doc is having enough trouble staying from the bottle and resigning himself to his marriage without the curvaceous...
4) Lolita
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed...
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This heartwarming and inspirational film tells the story of a young woman growing up in the 1950's who devotes her life to the service of God. However, her faith is tested with each tragedy endured on an extraordinary life journey.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, black and white.
Description
The fourth film from Akira Kurosawa is based on a legendary twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a group of samurai retainers dressed as monks in order to pass through a dangerous enemy checkpoint. The story was dramatized for centuries in Noh and kabuki theater, and here it becomes one of the director's most riveting early films.
8) Arrowsmith
Pub. Date
2005, ©1931
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Happily married country doctor Martin Arrowsmith leaves his small practice for the prospects of wealth and important medical research at New York City's esteemed McGurk Institute and finds himself faced with an intense workload, a romance-minded socialite, and a plague outbreak.
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her priorities as she prepares for the biggest culture shock of everyone's...
10) The wager
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Steele is ten days from the biggest night of his life. He has been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Achieving the height of career success, Michael is quickly cast in the role of a lifetime as the lead character in a classic struggle between good and evil when rumors about his morality and faith run rampant. Will he buckle with temptation or stay true to his beliefs?
11) Barry Lyndon
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 184 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.
13) Biloxi blues
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eugene, a raw recruit from Brooklyn, is sent to boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he expects the army to be dolls, doughnuts, and USO dances. Instead, he encounters a tough drill sergeant and a platoon of often hostile recruits.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job and an apartment, but before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. The people around him seem cut off from any real emotion and communicate only in superficialities. He makes an attempt to escape from the city, but he discovers there is no way out. Andreas meets a man who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from...
15) Hobson's choice
Series
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong eldest daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life.
16) Tara Road
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marilyn Vine's idyllic life in Connecticut is devastated by the tragic death of her only son, Dale, during his 15th birthday party. 3,000 miles away, Ria Lynch's marriage comes to a stunningly abrupt end in Dublin, Ireland, when husband Danny reveals that he is leaving her for his pregnant mistress, Bernadette. An accidental phone call brings these two otherwise unrelated women together and, in their mutual need for space and time alone, they agree...
17) GoodFellas
Pub. 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.
18) Exodus
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
19) Julius Caesar
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.
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