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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Reveals...
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1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color w/ black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"[The film] traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possessing nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, leaving the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident." -- Container.
3) Click
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1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to make its own choices.
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Set in the 80s; a young, mute woman is kept captive and sedated in a secluded compound by drugs and a mind-control sadistic leader, manages to escape her confinement. As she tries to escape the compound, obviously hindered by lack of communication skills and terror of the search by her captors & guardians of the compound she has no one to trust, no one to help her.
5) Contagion
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
After a woman returns to the U.S. from a business trip to Hong Kong, bringing a deadly virus with her, virologists from the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization race to find a cure before it wipes out humanity.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers are racing against the clock and battling the forces of nature to try to save this historic city for future generations.
8) Snowpiercer
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2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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...
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1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1893, illustrator and naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton journeyed to New Mexico to kill a wolf that had been marauding human inhabitants. Later he would question the merits of this action and his account of the adventure would capture the American imagination, serving as a catalyst for the wildlife conservation movement in the U.S.
10) Tierra
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Angel is a pest control specialist (and recently released mental patient) working the soil in Spanish wine country to rid the terrain of destructive grubs. Unexpectedly, Angel finds romance and adventure beyond his wildest imagination when he falls for two of the locals: the earthy and soulful farmer's wife, Angela; and the sensuous, amorous (and much too young) Mari.
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2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Gary Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications.
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1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
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1 videodisc (approximately 124 min., approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Por Mis Pistolas: Fidencio Barrenillo is on his way to Arizona in order to claim his late great-grandfather's deed for a silver mine. However, he finds himself caught up in a series of dangerous and comedic adventures while battling Apaches and vicious gunmen who have their eyes on Fidencio's silver. A clever satire of the "Spaghetti Westerns" of the 1960s, POR MIS PISTOLAS is an entertaining film filled with action and comedy. -- Fidencio Barrenillo...
16) Thunderball
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
James Bond dives into an adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action. James travels to Nassau to track down the villainous criminal Emilio Largo, who is threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
17) Food, Inc
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1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifties music backs the efforts of Pilot Uniqua while she delivers singing telegrams to a grumpy pirate, a quiet-loving queen, and even the Abominable Snowman. Then, It's a madcap museum adventure set to Flamenco as rookie security guard Tyrone tries to chase down some runaway works of art before Curator Tasha returns. Next, Rumba plays as pest Controllers Tyrone and Uniqua try to rid Lady Tasha's mansion of Wormans so she can get into Mr. Spiffy's...
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1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frontline investigates the secret history of the unprecedented surveillance program that began in the wake of September 11th and continues today. As big technology companies encouraged users to share more and more information about their lives, they created a trove of data that could be useful not simply to advertisers, but also to the government. The revelations of NSA contractor Edward Snowden would push Silicon Valley into the center of a debate...
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
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