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Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charlton Heston stars as a hard-bitten captian making his last voyage in command of the U.S.S. Neptune, a nuclear submarine that is sunk in a collision with a Norwegian freighter. The only hope for the forth-one men trapped 1450 feet down is a pair of maverick inventors racing to clear the blocked escape hatch with an experimental submersible.
2) 3022
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Halfway through a ten-year mission, a group of astronauts becomes unstable, overcome by the isolation of deep space. While they prepare to return home, Earth is hit by a catastrophic event. The haunting emptiness of space becomes the least of their concerns as they fight to survive against unforeseen threats.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge. Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within him as he learns that the protection of his family...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland.
5) The road
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A holocaust has destroyed the world. Civilization lies in ruins. Nothing grows. The Man and his young son, the Boy, struggle across the devastated, post-apocalyptic landscape, pushing their belongings in a shopping cart, hoping to reach the coast. It is almost impossible to find any food. Life on the road is a deadly game of hide, seek, and devour with bloodthirsty bands of roving, starving, survivalist types, many of whom have fallen into cannibalism....
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many...
7) Geostorm
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong. The system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything.
8) Melancholia
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this beautifully filmed movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. A planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth and threatening to collide. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting and relationships are fraying as the family deals with their fears.
9) Knowing
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the...
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 347 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear explosion, and a battle with neighboring New Bern, the once peaceful town of Jericho begins to rebuild itself as it attempts to communicate with the outside world. The newly formed Cheyenne government strives to establish its stronghold in the region, but Jericho's citizens become suspicious of these new leaders and they question their true intentions.
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.
12) Snowpiercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
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