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2) Aliens
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After half a century in suspended animation the sole survivor of a doomed star freighter is sent back to the remote planet and breeding grounds of the aliens with a team of hand-picked warriors to destroy the menace forever.
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...
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (61 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gigantic statue of Buddha awakens and goes on a trek across Japan while the world watches in awe. Featuring an all-star cast of beloved actors from kaiju cinema's history. A modern day reboot of the long lost, and quite possibly first daikaiju film, classic Daibutsu Kaikoku (1934), this is a must-see love letter to kaiju cinema.
6) Dreamscape
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young psychic is taught to participate in other people's dreams, but someone evil is also entering their dreams. They enter into a duel where anything can happen.
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan--a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth--is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk ... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
10) Dune
Pub. Date
1998, c1984
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 17 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
MacLachlan is Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, who struggles with the native inhabitants of the dry planet Arrakis (Dune) to overthrow the terrible Baron Barkonnen and his family and control the special product of the planet, a mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms.
12) Transcendence
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.
13) X2: X-men united
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the upper reaches of the Amazon River, a scientific team discovers a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The creature is captured and falls in love with the female assistant of the leader of the research team. When the lonely creature escapes and kidnaps her, the scientist mounts an effort to reclaim his sweetheart and return the creature to his watery home.
15) Men in black
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 2 1/4 in.
Description
New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in.
Description
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command. The entire crew mobilizes at warp speed to stop the alien intruder.
17) Charly
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charly is an adult male with a cognitive disability struggling to survive in the modern world. His frequent attempts at learning, reading, and writing prove difficult. His teacher, Miss Kinian, takes Charly to the clinic where he is observed by doctors who have Charly "race" a mouse, Algernon. Algernon is usually the winner thanks to an experiment that greatly raised his intelligence. This experiment is given to Charly, who at first does not seem...
18) Jurassic Park
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (double-sided) (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son (Patricia Neal, Billy Gray) befriend him ... and soon realize that they may be all that stands between...
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