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Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (330 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (366 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the thick of a career-defining case, Roz is under intense pressure to prove herself to her superiors. But when she faces conflict with a colleague, it's not long before AC-12 decide to probe her handling of the investigation.
5) Manpower
Author
Description
Meir Cohen is a decorated police officer who barely earns a living. His new assignment of deporting African migrant workers from Israel "of their own free will," teaches him foreigners aren't the only ones who have no future in his country. Filmmaker Noam Kaplan also delicately sketches the portraits of an Israeli-Filipino boy fighting for recognition, a taxi driver whose children are migrating to a distant country, and a veteran migrant worker who's...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against the backdrop of a pandemic that is disproportionately killing Black people, the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of the police in 2020 sparked a push for racial justice and calls for change. The film explores the story of Newark, New Jersey which has been undergoing an experiment in police reform for several years.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in this terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw. Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel 'Zeke' Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer's morbid game....
9) The rookie
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cocky veteran L.A. cop has to depend on an idealistic rookie to help him hunt down a killer gang of auto thieves.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stone is a quiet chief of police in a cold, gray, seaside town. When a serial killer strikes, this tough cop is in the thick of it. Add his girlfriend, an ex-wife and a sexy defense attorney, and things really heat up.
11) Magnum force
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1948, rural Georgia, Coweta County is watched over by its legendary, indomitable Sheriff Lamar Potts. No felony had every gone unsolved while Sheriff Potts was in charge. In the next county, though, there is a vast estate know as The Kingdom. It's ruled by one man, John Wallace, whose power is absolute and beyond the law. But when Wallace chases one of his underlings to deliver ruthless punishment, he makes a critical mistake. He crosses over into...
13) Frank Serpico
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Now, Serpico tells his story in his own words: from his Italian-American roots in Brooklyn to his disillusionment with the NYPD to his riveting account of a dramatic drug bust, and possible set-up that ended with him being shot in the face.
14) Demolition man
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2032 archcriminal Simon Phoenix awakes from a 35 year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a serene, non-violent Los Angeles ready for the taking. Officials seek an old-fashioned cop to fight an old fashioned criminal. They revive Sgt John Spartan, unjustly serving a CryoPrison sentence because of his last encounter with Phoenix.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 305 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates is an exemplary cop. He's got the best crime stats on the force and a loyal team working under him. But the head of the police anticorruption unit, Superintendent Ted Hastings, has his doubts about Gates. Is he really that good? And more importantly, is he really that clean? Hastings decides to find out and all on a new arrival to his department, Detective Sergeant Steven Arnott to help him do it. As the net tightens...
16) Stuber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a mild-mannered Uber driver named Stu picks up a passenger who turns out to be a cop hot on the trail of a brutal killer, he's thrust into a harrowing ordeal where he desperately tries to hold onto his wits, his life, and his five-star rating.
17) 21 bridges
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on whom he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all of the city's bridges to prevent any entry or exit from the iconic island.
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Take one wrong turn in life and who knows where you'll end up. For Becky, it's waking up next to her murdered ex-husband. For Teddy, it's the tail end of a failed film career. For Allan it's being kidnapped by a crazy toupee-wearing Italian hit-man. For Lee and Helga it's letting that hit man get away alive. And for Wes and Alvin, two undercover cops cruising the valley for crime, it's just another day ... where everything goes wrong.
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