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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Will Caster is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him.
2) Ex machina
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies....
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen steals the time machine, and with it a book that allows his young self to amass a gambling fortune, which has significant consequences to the present. To correct the problems, Marty and Doc must return to 1955 to retrieve the book.
4) Cloud atlas
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are...
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (175 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p.)
Description
Gojira: A prehistoric monster, Godzilla, ravages metropolitan Tokyo. Scientists suspect that H-bomb tests awakened it from a two-million year sleep and they try to develop techniques to stop the monster.
Godzilla, king of the monsters!: When American reporter Steve Martin investigates a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan, he comes face to face with Godzilla, an ancient creature so powerful and so terrifying, it can reduce Tokyo...
7) Dune world
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mining operation lands their ship on a barren and hostile planet to begin operations. They set out for an underground base, but find it partially destroyed by large worm-like beasts hidden within the sand. Yet there's something else on the planet with them, more dangerous than the creatures, a force beyond their darkest nightmares. As the rag-tag crew begin work, this dark entity will test their courage, loyalty, and souls. Terror waits to be discovered,...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Doc Brown has decided to live in the Old West of the 1880's. But when he's in danger of meeting an untimely end, Marty travels back into the past to rescue him. There's just one problem: Doc is so smitten by a schoolteacher that he's become distracted. Now, it's up to Marty to keep Doc out of trouble, get the DeLorean running, and put the past, present and future on track so they can all get back to where and when they belong.
9) In time
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage. Together, they must bring down the corrupt system before their time runs out.
10) Iron sky
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the end of World War II the Nazis set up a secret project on the Dark Side of the Moon where over the next seven decades they create a space fortress and flying saucers.
11) Dredd
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast lies Mega City One, a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called Judges who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
By all appearances, Hector has it all. A successful psychiatry practice, a comfortable home, and a beautiful, loving girlfriend. However, he's frustrated that he can't provide his patients with real happiness. So, he decides to travel the world in search of the elusive emotion.
13) Big business
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy about two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth, and forty years later their paths cross in Manhattan at New York's Plaza Hotel.
15) Dead again
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. with some b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An L.A. detective is perplexed when he is hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim who is tormented by nightmares, which may lie in a past-life connection to a pianist murdered by her husband.
17) Amour
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
18) Sophie's choice
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbors.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Science professor Trevor Anderson's radical theories have tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean, the two find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. They go on a quest to find out what has happened to Trevor's missing brother, also a scientist. Trevor, Sean and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. There, they discover a bizarre...
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