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In the course of screening Necessity Part I: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance at schools, activist events, and festivals, the team began production on a second part, titled Necessity Part II: Rails, Rivers and the Thin Green Line. Also feature-length, the film is set along the rivers of Oregon and follows activists as they enlist the necessity defense in a jury trial after being arrested for a direct action at Zenith Energy in Portland. This story...
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.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (359 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Petrified Forest: A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple, and a handful of others hostage.
Marked woman: When a hostess's innocent sister vanishes from a party given by a racketeering boss, she threatens the boss, and is then herself in danger.
Kid Galahad: A fight promoter pushes a bellhop as future champ but has second...
5) Test pattern
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The movie follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit. Their story reveals the systemic injustices and social conditioning women face when navigating sex and consent within the American patriarchy. Winner of top prizes at the BlackStar and New Orleans Film Festivals, this gripping social thriller offers...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul in1962. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland and his young wife Collete meet American expat Rydal, a scammer working as a tour guide. The two befriend him, but a murder at the couple's hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio's allegiance is put to the test.
9) The fugitive
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime.
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Milo, a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole. He thinks it's an easy payday, until she gives him the slip to chase a lead on a murder cover-up. Milo soon realizes that nothing is ever simple with him and Nicole. As the two continue to one-up each other, they find themselves on the run for their lives. If they thought their promise to love, honor, and obey was...
11) An ordinary man
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world--his maid.
13) Savage salvation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his fiancé dies of an overdose, a recovering addict embarks on a vengeful killing spree, hunting down the drug dealers before the town sheriff puts an end to his vigilante justice.
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This hybrid fiction-documentary engaged the services of two actual legal teams to create a rigorous, legally based fictional, yet unscripted, trial that never happened for one of the nation's most disturbing tragedies.
15) Rooster Cogburn
Pub. Date
[©2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rough-edged deputy marshall teams up with a strait-laced missionary to track down a band of murdering bank robbers. During the pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty reverend's daughter.
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (946 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Feeling surprisingly unencumbered, Raymond Reddington is back, and in the process of rebuilding his criminal empire. Liz finds herself torn between her role as an FBI agent and the temptation to act on her more criminal instincts. In a world where the search for Blacklisters has become a family trade, Red will undoubtedly reclaim his moniker as the 'Concierge of Crime.'
17) Running on empty
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When antiwar activists Arthur and Annie Pope blew up a napalm lab in 1971, they accidentally blinded a janitor working late. Since then, the Popes and their children have stayed together by staying a step ahead of the law, running from state to state, job to job, assumed identity to assumed identity. But now elder son Danny is 17. He's ready to stop running from a past he had nothing to do with, ready to start making his own future.
18) Deadfall
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Siblings Addison and Liza are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. They split up and make a run for the Canadian border in blizzard conditions, vowing to reunite in Canada. Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, and retired sheriff. It's there the siblings are reunited in a tense and thrilling showdown.
19) Sweet country
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighboring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam's relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in self-defense.
20) Algiers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A criminal eludes capture in the Casbah section of Algiers until he is lured out of hiding by a beautiful woman.
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