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1) 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.
Pub. Date
c1966, 2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (videodisc) (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Montag, a regimental fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugtive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
4) Saving Grace
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A recent widow joins with the caretaker of her estate on the Cornish coast to use her green thumb for fun and profit. All goes well until the business starts booming.
5) Agatha
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
8) Another year
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
9) Local hero
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.
11) Zardoz
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A postapocalyptic story of a privileged society separated from the mass of the population who have reverted to savagery living in a world devasted by war and pollution. When a particularly bright savage makes his way into the world of the Eternals, he discovers the truth of his reality, and change for the world begins.
12) Inception
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dom Cobb is the best there is at extraction; stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind's vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage, but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible; inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime.
14) Four lions
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A whip-smart, slapstick comedy ... takes aim at Jihadi suicide bombers and illuminates the war on terror through satire and farce. Follow five inept aspiring terrorists on their quest to strike a blow, and how they demonstrate that terrorism may be about ideology, but it can also be about idiots"--Container.
15) Pride
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
16) Thunderball
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Agent 007 goes above the call of duty and to the bottom of the ocean to track down a villainous criminal who's holding millions hostage and threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
17) Mister Lonely
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Michael Jackson impersonator finds love and new friends in a home in the Scottish Highlands, when he is taken in by a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, in a castle that is home to Shirley Temple, Buckwheat, Madonna, The Pope, and other impersonators.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An eccentric French shopkeeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the Palestinian segregation wall in the West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be...
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The remarkable story of the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat,' told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Marshall Curry weaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison with a dramatic investigation of the events that led to his involvement with the ELF.
20) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p. : col ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
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