Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (990 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A ratings sensation for ABC, it was already a successful 1956 novel and 1957 film, made its way to network television in 1964. A prime-time soap opera whose influences can be seen in later beloved programs such as Dallas, Knots Landing, and Twin Peaks, the show examined the complex web of scandals, schemes, and sex in a New England town.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (790 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the Grace Metalious novel. Set in a small New England town, Peyton Place deals with the secrets and scandals of two generations of the town's inhabitants. An unmarried woman, Constance, and her daughter Allison are at the dramatic center of the story.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (810 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The winter holidays have come and gone, and the new year begins with a fresh dusting of snow and the return of Elliot Carson to Peyton Place. Behind the picket fences of the clapboard houses, beyond the historic pillory in the quaint town square, the neatly wrapped New England town continues to unravel in ways no one could have imagined.
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (825 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A ratings sensation for ABC, it was already a successful 1956 novel and 1957 film, made its way to network television in 1964. A prime-time soap opera whose influences can be seen in later beloved programs such as Dallas, Knots Landing, and Twin Peaks, the show examined the complex web of scandals, schemes, and sex in a New England town.
7) Widows' peak
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a stranger moves to Widows' Peak, she turns the town upside down with her devious lies and shocking secrets. She seduces the men, enrages the women, and unleases a major scandal, but its all part of an astonishing plan.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Chieveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a spaceship splashes down in Gotham Harbor, Batman and Superman encounter a mysterious Kryptonian with powers as great as Superman's. When Darkseid gets wind of this, he has the Kryptonian abducted and brought under his control on Apokolips. It's up to Batman and Superman to retrieve the Kryptonian, forcing them to infiltrate Darkseid's hostile world where super-powerful threats lurk around every corner.
11) The bank job
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small-time crook takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals, Terry finds himself in deep. The group becomes the target of ruthless mobsters, the police, government officials at the highest level, and even the royal family. Based on the true story of a British princess and a sex scandal.
12) Wag the Dog
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, "Mr. Fix-it" decides they need a war to distract the public's attention and he calls on Hollywood's top producer to create it.
13) The wager
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Steele is ten days from the biggest night of his life. He has been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Achieving the height of career success, Michael is quickly cast in the role of a lifetime as the lead character in a classic struggle between good and evil when rumors about his morality and faith run rampant. Will he buckle with temptation or stay true to his beliefs?
14) French exit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bankrupted by her infamous litigator husband's tabloid death, a scandal-fearing widow flees New York for Paris, where she and her deadbeat son navigate near-comic self-destructive choices.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
16) The duchess
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt...
17) The last duel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 2 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the wife of knight Jean de Carrouge accuses his squire of assaulting her virtue, King Charles VI declares that the men must fight to the death, leaving the truth to be revealed by God who will let the guilty man perish. This arrangement will leave the woman either bereaved or besmirched, her life and position in society ruined no matter the result.
18) The front runner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is the true story of Gary Hart, the former Colorado senator who quickly rose to the top of the pack as the number one contender for the 1987 Democratic presidential primary. Due to his charisma and drive, Hart connects well with the younger constituents, and both himself and his aides see this a clear and present path to victory. But allegations soon emerge of an extramarital affair, and Hart is forced to deal with the impact that these new allegations...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request