HBO Films.
1) Mosaic
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 299 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story focuses on the brutal New Year's Eve disappearance of a high-profile resident of picturesque Summit, Utah, and the four-year effort of law-enforcement officers and civilians to arrive at the truth behind the crime.
2) Nightingale
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A war veteran is anticipating the arrival of an old friend and in the process starts to unravel.
3) A dog year
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jon Katz is a writer at a mid-life crossroads who decides to adopt and train a high-strung border collie named Devon, only to discover it's he himself who has the real lessons to learn. Based on a true story.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The summer after Ana's high school graduation is a turning point in her life. She has to decide whether to go to college and experience life, or stay home, get married and work at her sister's struggling garment factory.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and executive produced by Jerry Weintraub, this HBO Films drama recreates the glittering private world of Liberace, the flamboyant, phenomenally successful entertainer whose extravagant costumes, trademark candelabra, and elaborate stage shows made him the most bankable entertainer of his time.
7) John Adams
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 501 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers -- General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson -- in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history....
8) Game change
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Game Change is a searing, behind-the-scenes look at John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, from the decision to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate to the ticket's ultimate defeat in the general election just sixty days later. Told primarily through the eyes of senior McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, who originally championed Palin and later came to regret the choice.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
11) Wit
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devastating illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
12) Conspiracy
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee - on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By the end of the meeting, the fate of six million lives would...
13) Too big to fail
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
14) Into the storm
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This sequel to the award-winning film The Gathering Storm offers an intimate look at the making of a nation's hero, when Churchill was at his most commanding and effective. It shows how his prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened his marriage.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The once-lawless frontier settlement has grown into a town on the threshold of South Dakota's statehood and modernization. Still, the past isn't easily dismissed as old feuds are revived, sins recalled, and allegiances tested.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 352 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills -- on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
18) Grey Gardens
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world...
19) Empire Falls
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 195 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
20) As you like it
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rosalind is the daughter of banished Duke Senior and is being raised at the court of Duke Frederick, with her cousin Celia. She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia goes with Rosalind. Disguised as the boy Ganymede, Rosalind enters the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing...