Diane Kruger
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When war a correspondent is taken hostage in Afghanistan by the Taliban and is faced with her imminent execution, a (Special Forces) unit is dispatched to free her. A relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim to bring her home alive.
2) J.T. LeRoy
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Savannah Knoop's memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy, this captivating true story goes beyond the headlines to tell the story of the most compelling literary hoax of recent times. Laura Albert writes as her avatar, 'a disenfranchised young queer man' named JT LeRoy. When her debut novel becomes a best-seller and JT becomes the darling of the literary world, she comes up with a unique solution to preserve her anonymity but give life...
3) In the fade
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a decendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he had to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping the...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life shaped the life of Abraham Lincoln. Using glorious cinematography to conjure an America where the land was raw, the film sheds new light on the formative years of the future president and the two women who molded him into one of the most revered men in American history.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. A extraordinary documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the island's 'Adam and Eve,' others flock there, including a self-styled Swiss...
8) The 355
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
CIA agent Mason 'Mace' Brown joins forces with a rival German agent, a cutting-edge computer specialist and a Colombian psychologist when a top-secret weapon falls into the hands of a group of mercenaries. Together, the four women embark on a breakneck mission to save the world while staying one step ahead of a mysterious figure who's tracking their every move.
9) The host
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over humans' bodies and erasing their minds, a young woman risks everything to protect the people she cares about most.
10) Troy
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus. The result is an epic war in which the Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy, and the greatest Trojan warrior, embodies...
11) Mr. Nobody
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life story of Nemo Nobody, a 118 year-old man who is the last mortal on Earth after the human race has achieved quasi-immortality. On his deathbed, Nemo shares his life story with a reporter and reviews the choices he made along the way. Yet even with his last breath, a pivotal decision awaits to conclude his destiny.
12) Unknown
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife suddenly doesn't recognize him and another man has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired, and on the run. Aided by an unlikely ally, Harris plunges into a deadly mystery, forcing him to question his sanity, his identity, and just how far he's willing to go to uncover the truth.
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse conformists. The violence of the system on its white citizens...
15) The target
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a caged force of evil is released to kill again, an assassin trained to take lives is hired to save one.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a devastating attack leaves Mark Hogancamp shattered and without his memory, no one expected recovery. But by putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous fantasy world, where he draws strength to triumph in the real one. His astonishing art installation becomes a testament to the powerful women who support him on his journey.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When young Anna Holz, a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven, she eagerly accepts. She does so despite the warnings about Beethoven's volatile behavior. Beethoven is part maestro, part mentor and part madman. He reluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.
18) Marlowe
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light." --
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...