Josh Brolin
Author
Series
Mankind The Story of All of Us volume 6
Language
English
Description
Genghis Khan--the bloodiest warlord in history--sweeps south from Mongolia into China and creates a mighty empire. He leaves 40 million dead bodies in his wake. But a greater killer stalks Mankind--the Plague. Traveling along Mongol trade routes.
Author
Series
Mankind The Story of All of Us volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Rome is sacked by barbarians, Europe enters a Dark Age. But from the fringes of the old empire, two new forces remake the world. The Arabs, funded by a gold rush, unite under the banner of Islam.
Author
Series
Mankind The Story of All of Us volume 8
Language
English
Description
In the Andes, the Spanish open up the largest silver mine in the world and mint millions of pesos de ocho (pieces of eight). These coins transform the global economy. They fill the treasure chests of pirates.
Author
Series
Mankind The Story of All of Us volume 12
Language
English
Description
The end of the Civil War allows Mankind to go into overdrive. This is an age of innovation, transformation and mass production. People believe that "Anything, everything, is possible." Japan goes from feudal society to industrial superpower.
Author
Series
Mankind The Story of All of Us volume 3
Language
English
Description
The crucifixion of Jesus gives birth to global religion, but Christianity may never have happened without the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire's vast network of roads and shipping lanes allows goods and ideas to flow across three continents.
Author
Series
Mankind The Story of All of Us volume 2
Language
English
Description
A mysterious band of pirates plunders the Mediterranean coast--leaving destruction in its wake. Empires fall, but out of the chaos, we discover iron. Armed with this wonder metal, ordinary folk can overthrow tyrants and build a new world order.
Author
Series
Mankind The Story of All of Us volume 7
Language
English
Description
The Aztecs have built a mighty empire that dominates Central America. But it will be destroyed because of a domino effect. 7,000 miles away in modern-day Turkey, the great trading center of Constantinople is overrun by an Islamic army.
Author
Series
Mankind The Story of All of Us volume 5
Language
English
Description
Genghis Khan--the bloodiest warlord in history--sweeps south from Mongolia into China and creates a mighty empire.
Author
Series
Mankind The Story of All of Us volume 1
Language
English
Description
On a unique planet, a unique species takes its first steps: Mankind begins. But it s a world full of danger. Threatened by extinction, we innovate to survive--discovering fire and farming.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 552 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the producers of America: The Story of Us comes the epic tale of the rise of civilization. Mankind: The Story of All of Us, a 12-hour series, spans the first flourishing of life in Mesopotamia through the discovery of America, capturing the danger, action, struggle, heroism, and adrenaline using groundbreaking techniques.
11) Inherent vice
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1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin.
12) Nightwatch
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Martin, a cash-strapped law student, takes a job as night watchman at the city morgue. But his peaceful graveyard shift becomes a time of terror when a serial killer begins wreaking havoc and leaving clues that point to Martin's possible guilt.
13) Into the blue
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1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
When a group of young divers discover the wreckage of a cargo plane at the bottom of the sea, they believe their dream of buried treasure has come true. What they don't realize is that there is also millions of dollars of illegal goods that are in that sunken plane and a group of dangerous criminals are already desperately searching for it. As tensions mount and the friends begin to fight about what to do with their find, others get closer to discovering...
14) Hollow man
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
After years of experimentation, Dr. Sebastian Caine, a brilliant but arrogant scientist working for the Defense Department, has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Detemined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine instructs his team to move on to phase III: human experimentation. Dr. Caine uses himself as the first subject.
15) Jonah Hex
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the 'other side.' His one human connection is with Lilah, whose life in a brothel has left her with scars of her own. But Jonah's past catches up with him when the U.S. military makes him an offer he can't refuse: to wipe out the warrants on his head, he must hunt and stop dangerous terrorist Quentin Turnbul.
16) Oldboy
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Kidnapped and kept in solitary confinement for 20 years, Joe Doucett has suddenly been set free without a word of explanation. Obsessed with finding those who imprisoned him, Doucett wreaks havoc upon his captors, unaware his freedom is part of a plan and his true punishment's about to begin.
17) Planet terror
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2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A small town sheriff's department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. Cherry has El Wray's jacket, which she took with her when she left and he keeps trying to explain how he looked for it for two weeks and she keeps interrupting his story. Gun-legged...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia. He comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position....
19) Dune
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Description
A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey that tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest...
20) The goonies
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.