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Charlton Heston
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The story covers the highlights of Caesar's life including his exile during the rule of the cruel dictator Sulla, his patronage under the capable General Pompey, his brutal but victorious campaigns against Vercingetorix and the Gauls, and his love affair with the beautiful and scheming Egytian queen Cleopatra. Caesar's great ambition ultimately lead to his own murder by members of the Roman Senate who fear his ascendency, but ironically bring about...
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Alaska is a place little contaminated by the present, where we can rediscover vitality and beauty vanishing from our lives. whether or not we will ever reach Alaska, we all want to know that such a place still exists. These thoughts are a poignant summation of narrator Charlton Heston's view on the great state of Alaska. Transporting viewers on a voyage into the last great frontier where nature enchants the eye with magnificent spectacles, this film...
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Availability | |
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c2006 | Widescreen version. | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge AV DVD Planet | |
2001 | 2-disc special ed. | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD Planet | |
c2001 | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
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After crash-landing on an uncharted planet, astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Soon, Taylor's life depends on the kindness of the chimpanzee scientists Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter) and his escape to the Forbidden Zone, where he uncovers an earth-shattering secret that may hold the key to his own destiny.
6) Ben-Hur
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2011 | Fiftieth anniversary [ed.], anamorphic widescreen. | Warner Home Video | 2 videodiscs (222 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2 copies. Additional copies on order.
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In this Biblical epic, Jewish nobleman Ben-Hur struggles against Roman tyranny in first-century Palestine.
Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2013] | Mill Creek Entertainment | 2 videodiscs (approximately 8 hr. 27 min.) : sound, black & white and color, DVD video ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD 943.086 Sec Southside AV DVD 943.086 Sec |
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An exploration of the history of Hitler and the Third Reich by means of archival materials, interviews and reenactments.
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2 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge AV
DVD Agony
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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c2005 | Widescreen version. | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert in container. | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge AV DVD Agony |
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When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.
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2 copies. Additional copies on order.
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DVD Big
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DVD Big
Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2001] | MGM Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (167 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
Main Media DVD Big Southside AV DVD Big |
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A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.
10) The big country
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[2018] | Kino Lorber | 2 videodiscs (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
La Farge AV DVD Big |
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The bold, sweeping tale of a ship's captain who ventures west to find a hotbed of jealousy, hatred and dangerous rivalries. As the reluctant hero is thrust into the maelstrom, he must summon all of his resolve to save not only his own life, but also the life of the woman he loves.
11) El Cid
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2008] | Two-disc deluxe ed. | Weinstein Co | 2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Cid Southside AV DVD Cid |
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Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand...
12) Touch of evil
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3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge AV
DVD Touch
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DVD Touch
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DVD Touch
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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c2000 | Restored to Orson Welles vision. | Distributed by Universal Studios | 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge AV DVD Touch Main Media DVD Touch Southside AV DVD Touch |
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On honeymoon with his new bride, Susan, Mexican-born police officer Mike Vargas agrees to investigate a car bombing. In so doing, he incurs the wrath of local police chief Hank Quinlan, a corrupt, bullying behemoth with a perfect arrest record. Vargas suspects that Quinlan has planted evidence to win his past convictions, and he is not about to let the suspect in the current case be railroaded. Determined to get Vargas out of his hair, Quinlan makes...
13) The far horizons
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2005 | Widescreen. | Paramount | 1 videodisc (107 min.) : digital, col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Southside AV DVD Far |
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This adventure drama portrays the Lewis & Clark Expedition's trek through the Pacific Northwest with guidance from the Native American maiden Sacajawea.
14) True lies
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1999, c1994 | Widescreen ed. | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV DVD True |
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Harry Tasker is a top spy for the ultra-secret Omega Sector, but his wife thinks he's just a boring computer salesman. Then his two lives collide when he and his wife find themselves kidnapped by international terrorists.
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2011] | Widescreen version. | Distributed by Warner Home Video | 1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Antony |
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A dramatization of Shakespeare's famous play which explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion.
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2011. | Distributed by Warner Home Video | 1 videodisc (149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Man |
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Adaptation of Robert Bolt's play chronicling Sir Thomas More's struggles with corrupt King Henry VIII.
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2003, c2002 | Special ed. | MGM Home Entertainment | 2 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD 363.33 Bow Southside AV DVD 363.33 Bow |
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The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed.
18) Hamlet
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2007] | Two-disc special ed. | Distributed by Warner Home Video | 2 videodiscs (242 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's work, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2011 | Widescreen version. | Paramount | 2 videodiscs (231 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV DVD Ten |
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Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai with one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture, this version tells the story of the life of Moses. Once favored in the Pharaoh's household, Moses turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom. Now celebrating its 55th anniversary, this film has been fully restored.
20) Julius Caesar
Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2006 | Lionsgate | 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Julius |
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Julius Caesar's closest allies and confidants plot his downfall.
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