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1) Annihilation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 283 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Professor Ian Hood is recruited by the British government as its on-call scientist/detective. Along with his female bodyguard, they take on such menaces as rogue cloners, ruthless polluters, and resurgent viruses. Includes four episodes.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A family of scientists is on the brink of a powerful discovery when a mysterious force suddenly abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Years later, April carries on her family's research in secret with her cat, Darwin, but soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered airships, and cyborg rat spies!
4) Rememory
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his widow's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation on memories that lead him to unexpected and dangers places....
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this musical comedy, Linda Watt, a sheltered but brilliant young scientist is plucked out of her company's lab and sent to India by her CEO to sell "Rice 9," a genetically modified rice she's created, unaware that the rice will destroy the Indian farmers she thinks she's helping.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Israeli spy, Ari Ben-Zion, haunted by the death of his son, is recalled to Jerusalem after a failed attempt to bring a mole back to Israel alive. Unsure how many of its operatives have been exposed, the Mossad assigns Ari to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist out of Syria. While in Damascus, Ari's loneliness is relieved by Kim, a young American photographer. Within days of his arrival, his mission goes wrong, and to survive, Ari reaches out to a...
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The show reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Although astronauts routinely perform science experiments on spacecraft, we rarely have seen just how catastrophic they can be-until now. When a particle accelerator goes awry, suddenly the entire crew of a spacecraft must fight to stay alive. Relying upon all of their considerable skills and talents, they will need to improvise in ways they have never even imagined before. With each passing second making their prospects of a potential escape more...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave, and debonair. Walter is not. But when events take an unexpected turn, this unlikely duo is forced to team up for the ultimate mission that will require an almost impossible disguise, transforming Lance into the brave, fierce, majestic pigeon. Walter and Lance suddenly have to work as a team, or the whole world is in peril.
Series
Criterion collection volume 586
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Description
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
12) Temple Grandin
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories.
Description
Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy scientist, Cecilia Kass escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being...
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 36 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Murphy stars as shy, kind, brilliant "calorically challenged" genetics professor Sherman Klump, who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of a beautiful faculty member. His experimental fat-reducing serum creates a slimmed down alter-ego, with startling results.
17) Contact
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
18) No time to die
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (1043 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Horatio Caine heads a group of investigators who work crimes amid the tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. Together, the investigators collect and analyze the evidence to solve the crimes and to vindicate those who often cannot speak for themselves, the victims.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a growing group of researchers is exposing longstanding discrimination and making science more inclusive.
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