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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.
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.
3) 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.
4) 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.
5) 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.
7) 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.
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.
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...
11) Moonraker
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
James Bond joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying human life on Earth.
12) Idiot =: Hakuchi
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Dostoyevsky's fable of a holy fool, this story which takes place in Hokkaido in the winter is about a man who returns home after a stay in an asylum. He is being drawn toward Christianity; his antagonist is an anarchist.
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...
14) Band of angels
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hamish Bond is a plantation owner who has a secret past of slave trading. Rau-ru is a freedom-yearning slave who has been raised as a son by Bond. Amantha Starr is a fiery belle who goes on the auction block when her part-African heritage is revealed -- and is sold to Bond. She loathes Bond at first but is eventually won over.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the late '60s, a changing social and political climate inspired a new generation to create a lifestyle outside the mainstream. Twenty-two year-old Arlo's journey to find a place for himself and his music includes a visit to his dying father in the hospital, gigs in New York and romps with his friends Alice and Ray, who run a small restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And when an incident at Alice's Restaurant plays a pivotal role in Arlo's...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
Pub. Date
2007, c1985
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
18) Jezebel
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
19) 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...
20) 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.
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