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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When his friend Gunther Jurgena attempts to break out of East Germany by crashing his truck through the Berlin Wall, Kurt Schroder watches in horror as he is shot dead by the border guards. So when Gunther's sister Erika follows her brother and barely escapes the same fate, Kurt offers to help. Aided by 26 family members and neighbors who also wish to defect, Kurt tunnels under the Wall, unaware that Erika's parents have betrayed them and that armed...
4) Yellowbeard
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After serving a 20 year sentence for tax evasion, a notorious pirate escapes to claim his hidden treasure after being imposed with an additional bogus prison sentence by the Royal Navy.
5) I walk alone
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Partners Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. Years later Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They may have busted out of prison, but the World War II battle for freedom has just begun for Alcatraz convicts Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo. Eluding the Rock's patrol boats, the fugitives capture a lighthouse, taking the denizens prisoner while plotting their mainland escape. But among the captives, a veteran skipper, his flinty daughter, a chatty assistant and a wily radio operator; is a Nazi spy who's key to a German plot to attack San Francisco....
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal path he's on.
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. He's a private eye on the run from a conspiracy rap in a phony murder case. She's a dizzy poet he takes hostage, and takes on the adventure of her life to track down the real killer. Naturally, despite constant peril and the PI's penchant for goofball disguises, romance blooms. Join two iconic stars in a comic world that's wacky, witty and completely wonderful.
11) Fanny's journey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story of a daring young girl who will stop at nothing and fear no one. In 1943, thirteen-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these eleven children do the impossible and reach the Swiss border...
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
13) Room
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
14) White heat
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gangster escapes from prison to take revenge on the people that murdered his mother.
15) Backtrace
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, Macdonald develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year of evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he's forgotten. Macdonald must now elude a local detective, a tough FBI agent, and the drug's dangerous side effects in order to recover the stolen money....
16) The great escape
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
17) No escape
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
How far will one man go to protect the ones he cares about most in the world? An intense international thriller, centers on an American businessman as he and his family settle into their new home in Southeast Asia. Suddenly finding themselves in the middle of a violent political uprising, they must frantically look for a safe escape as rebels mercilessly attack the city.
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry, Ron, and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts. There they are forced to face escaped prisoner Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf, and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers, and change the course of more than one life.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements.
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there...
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Darkness falls over the town of Plum Creek when the Texas Rangers come into town-with a hooded man doomed to be hung. With the prisoner sheathed under a dark hood, nobody recognizes him- until someone catches a glimpse of his face and it is none other than Ned Blessing's father! Determined to seek justice, Ned takes matters into his own hands and orchestrates his father's escape-only to set himself up for the same gruesome fate. Now, in a race againist...
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