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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2015, a fire at Bucharest's Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt system but...
2) The firm
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
3) Marauders
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an untraceable group of elite bank robbers execute the perfect heist making off with millions in cash and leaving a dead bank manager in their wake, the FBI agents investigating the robbery/homicide begin to uncover signs of corruption involving the bank's owner and his high power clients.
4) Equity
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A female investment banker, fighting to rise to the top of the corporate ladder at a competitive Wall Street firm, navigates a controversial tech IPO in the post-financial crisis world, where loyalties are suspect, regulations are tight, but pressure to bring in "big money" remains high.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
A grandly scaled and ravishingly scenic adventure about the search for clues across the Sinai terrain offering proof of Biblical events. Set in 1900 and unfolding across landscapes of awesome beauty and breathtaking excavations, rough-hewn archaeologist Mark Brandon and determined explorer Ann Mercedes, striving to complete her late father's earlier discoveries, travel a route of intrigue, danger and romance to reach the lost tomb of Ra-Hotep before...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and viewers, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which...
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A corrupt millionaire junk dealer, embarrassed by his girlfriend's lack of social sophistication, arranges to have her trained in a crash course in "culture." He is surprised and outraged when after becoming aware of her role as pawn in his crooked business deals, she refuses to cooperate.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The directorial debut of a postal worker's son, Jay Galione, who tells the story of his father, a 30-year postal clerk who was harassed, threatened, and fired for standing up for fellow employees. The documentary reveals how the USPS has been systematically dismantled and privatized by the trillion-dollar mail industry and its politicians who seek to raise prices and lower wages. A moving indictment of the toxic culture and push to downsize, the eye-opening...
10) Persecuted
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator frames him in the murder of an innocent girl, an era of persecution is unleashed. Out on bail, Luther escapes surveillance in search of the truth. Luther vows to expose anyone involved with the girl's murder. It's a mission that brings him face-to-face with the coming storm of persecution that will threaten the...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
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In the Kenyan bush, a small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobilize to destroy his trade. When he propositions his younger cousin, a conflicted wildlife ranger who hasn't been paid in months, they both see a possible lifeline. The plummeting elephant population in Africa has captured the attention of the world, and as the government cracks down, both poachers and rangers face their own existential crises - what is the value of...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After twelve years of suffering mysterious disappearances of society's most-productive individuals, the nation's economy is on the verge of collapse. As the government pursues policies imposing even greater brutality against those remaining, Dagny Taggart, Vice President of Taggart Transcontinental, must make a choice between saving the nation's collapsing infrestructure or the man she has come to love - the man who would stop the motor of the World....
14) Circle of poison
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines the problem of pesticides banned in the United States due to their toxicity but legally exported to other countries for use, focusing on collusion between the federal government and the pesticide industry. Looks at the efforts of activists attempting to put an end to this practice.
15) Street smart
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A New York magazine reporter on the verge of losing his job, Jonathan Fisher fabricates a story about prostitution that reignites his career and brings unwanted attention to a powerful pimp, Fast Black. The police, believing the story is true, feel they are closer to putting the notorious pimp behind bars. As pressure mounts for Fisher to reveal the identity of the lead in his story, he's unaware that Fast Black has plans of his own for the writer...
16) Money monster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
17) Forsaken
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An embittered gunslinger attempts to make amends with his estranged father while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.
19) Get hard
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A millionaire is pegged for fraud and sentanced to time in prison. He turns to a criminal friend to help prepare him to go.
20) The best offer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic...
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