Tommy Lee Jones
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Gary Gilmore and the tragic chain of events which led him to commit two cruel and senseless murders. These crimes would eventually cause him to become the first person in over ten years to be executed in the electric chair. This "director's cut" combines elements from the 97-minute European theatrical release with the original 157-minute U.S. TV miniseries.
4) JFK
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (206 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
5) Hope springs
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca.100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kay and Arnold are a middle-aged couple who have been married for 30 years and now are sleeping in separate rooms and barely interact in any meaningful loving way. Finally, Kay has had enough and finds a book by Dr. Feld which inspires her to sign them up for the doctor's intense week-long marriage counseling session. What follows is an insightful experience as Dr. Feld manages to help the couple understand how they have emotionally drifted apart...
7) 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.
8) The client
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a boy witnesses the suicide of a Mafia attorney he must hire a troubled attorney to protect himself from the Mafia and the federal prosecutors. Based on John Grisham's best selling novel.
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...
10) Emperor
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. He challenges his expert on Japanese culture, General Fellers to provide evidence in ten short days to decide if the Japanese Emperor, worshipped as a god by his people but accused of war crimes, should be punished or saved, as the fate of a nation waits.
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hank, a retired sergeant with the military police, receives a call informing him that his youngest son, Mike, has gone AWOL. Hank embarks on finding Mike, recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, but makes a series of discoveries, including a murder, that leads Hank into a far more confused and disturbing situation than he'd expected.
12) Jason Bourne
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jason Bourne, the CIA's most dangerous former operative, now remembers who he truly is and comes out of hiding to uncover more hidden truths about his past.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
14) Shock and awe
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The untold true story of an intrepid team of four reporters of Knight Ridder who dared to ask the questions their colleagues did not in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While on an investigation into a series of grisly murders, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and the dark, sultry world of New Orleans mobster 'Baby Feet' Balboni. Layers of corruption and long-dead secrets reawaken grudges and a lethal alliance.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into Captain America, a Super Soldier. Now, as Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull.
17) The Betsy
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adapted from a Harold Robbins potboiler, "The Betsy" offers power struggles, incest, adultery, gold digging, and car racing. Laurence Olivier plays a ruthless but fallible auto tycoon with a tortured family history including a weakling son (Paul Rudd), a daughter-in-law he loves too much (Katharine Ross), a resentful grandson (Robert Duvall), and a devoted great-granddaughter (Kathleen Beller) to whom he bequeaths most of his fortune. In the midst...
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...
19) Wander
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being hired to investigate a possible murder cover up in a small town, Arthur -- a traumatized private eye with a penchant for conspiracy theories -- is plunged into a world of lies and deceit, seeing parallels between this death and the death of his daughter. Increasingly paranoid, Arthur's sanity is tested as he attempts to filter fact from fiction and solve the case, all the while questioning if he is a pawn in a much bigger game.
20) Lincoln
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.