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Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 290 pages ; 19 cm)
Description
"This course explores the history of how humans have produced, cooked, and consumed food--from the earliest hunting-and-gathering societies to the present. This course examines how civilizations and their foodways have been shaped by geography, native flora and fauna, and technological innovations."--p. 1 of guidebook.
2) Task force
Publication Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "Told in flashback, Task force stars Gary Cooper in a wide-ranging performance taking him from brash young aviator to command of an aircraft carrier. Also on deck are Walter Brennan as a veteran navy sea dog and Jane Wyatt as Cooper's valiant, uncomplaining wife. The movie's other star attraction is actual World War II combat footage putting you in the middle of the chaos of a carrier deck strewn with flaming wrecks or the nail-biting tension...
Publication Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A U.S. Marshal rescues an accused murderer from mob justice, sets out to escort the wily old coot to trial, and confronts pursuing vigilantes, a desert windstorm, a rebellious deputy and a beautiful woman along the way.
Publication Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation,...
Publication Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
Introduction to the essentials of art: color, line, perspective, composition, shape, point of view, time and motion, and light and texture.
Publication Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The rich Duke Brothers wager on whether a born loser like Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler from the ghetto, can become as successful as Winthorpe, a wealthy investment executive, if put in the proper environment--and would a prig like Winthorpe turn to a life of crime if he were to lose it all.
7) Wall Street
Publication Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ambitious young stockbroker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage.
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satire on the ups and downs of being a black actor in Hollywood. Bobby Taylor, a young black actor whose attempts to find work are dashed when told that he's not "black enough" for the roles being offered. With jobs limited to stereotypes (gang-bangers, pimps and Uncle Toms), Bobby's struggles are told through a series of comic fantasies and dreams.
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (41 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Transports you to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea, and others in the Indo-Pacific region and allows you to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea.
Publication Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kindhearted (but confused) poet & activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life as he deals with the Huckabees corporation. He soon becomes involved with the detectives' other clients, all the while the detectives' French nemesis is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Once a vibrant part of american culture, drive-ins reached their peak in the late 50s with almost 5,000 dotting the nation from big cities to small rural towns. Although drive-ins are experiencing a resurgence in the new millennium, today less than 400 remain. In a nation that loves cars and movies, why haven't they survived?
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie and Milo are estranged twins who are reunited after ten years of being apart. Follow their unforgettable journey to reconnect, as they realize that the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.
13) Best worst movie
Publication Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1989, a group of unknown Utah actors starred in what would be crowned the worst movie of all time: Troll 2. Now, after two decades of running from this cinematic disaster, the cast can no longer hide from the legion of followers who celebrate them for their ineptitude.
Publication Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. Shirley Maclaine makes her screen debut in this New England romp that includes romance, humor ... and several unearthings of the corpse.
16) Cheyenne autumn
Publication Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (156 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three-hundred starving Cheyenne men, women and children, forcibly resettled in the barren wastelands of Oklahoma, set out on a desperate 1500-mile trek back to their Yellowstone homeland. A true-life story.
17) Splash
Publication Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a workaholic who thinks he will never find love and the mermaid who comes ashore to find him and prove him wrong.
18) Quills
Publication Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer, defying orders from the asylum's priest.
19) Cooley High
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1960s, a slice-of-life tale of high school students coping with the challenges of everyday life growing up in the Chicago housing projects.
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