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Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hyacinth remains busy entertaining the neighbors, tidying up her unruly family and fawning over her dear Daddy, yet still finds the time to exercise her singing skills and hold fetes for the candlelight supper set while imbuing her gracious entertaining skills in others.
82) Training day
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins...
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The adventures of Wallace and Gromit, an inventor and his dog. When Wallace creates a pair of walking techno-trousers for Gromit, things turn topsy-turvy as their fishy penguin roommate hijackes the pants and the sleeping Wallace for an off-the-wall diamond caper. It's up to Gromit to prove that he wears the pants in the family, stop the penguin from hatching the sinister plan, and rescue Wallace form a fate worse than running out of cheese.
Formats
Description
Owning a castle in the idyllic countryside may seem like a fairytale of old to many, but, for the Earl of Erne and his son Viscount Crichton, it's a very modern story of struggling finances and family responsibility. Their family home of Crom Castle in Northern Ireland has been the ancestral seat of the Crichtons for more than four hundred years. As the only boy in a family of five children, John (Viscount Crichton) will one day inherit the castle...
85) A perfect murder
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful Wall Street power broker tries to get his wife's lover to murder her.
86) Watermark
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following their success with Manufactured Landscapes, photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal reunite to explore the ways in which humanity has shaped, manipulated and depleted one of its most vital and compromised resources: water.
87) Arctic wolf pack
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the very northern edge of North America is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra dipping temperatures to 50 below zero. But running through this shifting sea of snow and ice is one of the most hardened predators on the planet, the White Wolf.
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1254 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Relive the grand hopes, dreams, loves, and adventures of generations of residents in Centennial, Colorado - from their risky attempts to establish a settlement in 1795 through the politics and power plays of the twentieth century.
91) The Capote tapes
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer and André Leon Talley, this documentary reveals the...
92) Carrie
Pub. Date
[2001], c1976
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The notion that man is driven by ruthless self-interest has been around for generations. Now this idea is being challenged by new research in fields as diverse as political science, psychology, sociology, and economics. If altruism really is intrinsic in humans, is it possible to build a society and an economy structured around altruistic behavior? Matthieu Ricard plunges deep into the human mind to explore this movement, and find out what really...
95) The other man
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Suspecting Lisa, his wife, of adultery, Peter tries to figure out why his wife had disappeared. When Lisa found out that she has cancer, she decides to leave him clues so that he could discover the affair and the secret life she had been leading and that he never knew existed. Peter sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 344 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, whit his daughters,...
Series
Doc Martin volume 1
Formats
Description
Martin struggles with the absence of Louisa, who is staying with her mother in Spain and offering no clear return date. At Ruth's suggestion, Martin finally agrees to make an appointment with a therapist. Morwenna prepares for her role in a lifeboat training exercise commemorating the fifth anniversary of a locally famous rescue.
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