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Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty -- a voyage filled with revenge and redemption that will change both men forever -- and bring some...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young, single mother of four is wrongly accused of selling drugs near a school and is offered a plea deal that would force her to admit to a crime she didn't commit. She challenges the laws of Texas when, instead of ruining her life with a conviction, she decides to sue the DA for racial discrimination in a case that changes her life as well as the laws of her state. Based on a true story.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wade Hunnicutt is a big man who looms over the Texas backwoodsmen who work his land, over the embittered wife that he cheats on, and over the sons who strive for their father's respect. An emotionally volatile tale of an epic clash between generations. Wade's sons, determined to be their own men, are in danger of repeating their father's life-crippling legacy of lust and violence.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After climbing Pampa High School's popularity chain, taking her volleyball team to the state championship, and founding the school's first drug-, alcohol- and violence-free club, Amy Newhouse must now fight the biggest battle of her life -- cancer.
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On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée on a path to financial freedom, but instead he ends up in a brutal game that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 284 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled with $2 million and a truck loaded with heroin. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On his the way from El Paso to the Mexican border, he discovers he's being followed...
9) True women
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 3 hr., 3 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the historical novel by Janice Woods Windle about a woman in Texas who takes care of her family and fends off Indian attacks while her husband's away.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To Edna Gladney, founder of the Texas Children's home and Aid Society, every abandoned child deserves the miracle of a loving home. Edna's devotion echoes today as she declares, "There are no illegitimate babies-- only illegitimate parents."
11) Yellow rose
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Filipina teen from a small Texas town fights to pursue her dreams as a country music performer while having to decide between staying with her family and leaving the only home she has known.
Rose, an undocumented Filipino girl, dreams of one day leaving her small Texas town to pursue her country music dreams. Her world is shattered when her mom suddenly gets picked up by immigration and Customs Enforcement. Rose, facing this new reality, is forced...
13) The Comancheros
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (Wayne) arrests gambler Paul Regret (Whitman) but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a violent band of gunrunners and thieves known as the Comancheros. The last film of director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca).
14) X
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1979 some young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast members find themselves in a fight for their lives.
15) Giant
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
16) Secondhand lions
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family - and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget.
17) The bad batch
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
[DVD only] 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Description
In a dystopian Texas wasteland, a man and woman find love in a community of cannibals.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Forced to give up his land and home, Texas rancher Red Bovie is not about to retire quietly in a trailer park. Instead he jumps in his Cadillac and hits the road with his estranged grandson for one last wild adventure filled with guns, women and booze. It's just another night in Old Mexico.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mac and Dal, two brothers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War, return home to Texas to discover that their sisters and Dal's sweetheart have been kidnapped by rampaging Rebel guerrillas refusing to accept the defeat of the Confederacy. With the help of their notorious uncle, Mac and Dal must rescue the women before they can be sold into a Mexican brothel.
Pub. Date
1995
Description
"Oscar-winning actress Sally Field returns to TV--where she launched her career as Gidget (1965-66) and The flying nun (1967-70). Those fluffy sitcoms are a far cry from this miniseries, an elaborately produced period piece and character study spanning from the turn of the century to 1963. Field portrays Bess Alcott, a smart and perky Texas belle from a well-to-do family whose sweet smile masks a steel will. In 1907, Bess marries her childhood sweetheart,...
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