Jacques Lob
Physical Desc
90 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Coursing through and eternal winter, on an icy track wrapped around the frozen planet Earth, there travels a train that never stops. This is Snowpiercer: one thousand and one carriages long. That last bastion of human civilization. But where did it begin? In a world of over-population, climate change, famine and other mass crises, bands of eco-terrorists strike a nerve against national governments. But for the Apocalypsters, terrorism is not enough,...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (459 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
3) Snowpiercer
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (457 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Season One ended, so did the revolution, with Layton emerging as Snowpiercer's leader and another threat to the survivors fast approaching in the form of a rival train. In Season Two, Mr. Wilford arrives, bringing a secret from Melanie's past. A new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalties to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing....