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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Steve attemps to relocate a hugh crocodile to save him from poachers. But what Steve doesn't know is that the big croc has swallowed a top-secret U.S. satellite beacon ... making them both targets of the U.S. special agents assigned to retrieve the beacon.
Series
Studio classic volume 26
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1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An extremely possessive woman will do whatever it takes to keep her husband all to herself, even murder.
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10 videodiscs (approximately 19 hr.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Episode 1. Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues. Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
Episode 2. From 1917 through 1924, the "Jazz Age" begins with...
Series
Studio classic volume 3
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1 videocassette (approximately 118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
6) The Moderns
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1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A struggling American painter living in Paris in the 1920s becomes involved in a plot to forge three paintings-- this leads to run-ins with a cold-blooded businessman who happens to be married to his ex-wife.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Follow the Colorado River from the Rocky Mountain National Park, through Utah's Westwater Canyon, the national parks of Canyonlands, and Zion, the fragile beauty and rapids of Grand Canyon, and into Mexico.
8) Cosmos
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7 videodiscs (715 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Host Carl Sagan takes viewers to the edge of the universe aboard the spaceship of the imagination in this 13-part series. Through beautiful special effects, viewers witness quasars, exploding galaxies, star clusters, supernovas, and pulsars. Returning to the solar system, viewers enter an astonishing recreation of the Alexandrian Library, seat of learning on Earth 2000 years ago.
In episode 2, Dr. Carl Sagan's cosmic calendar makes the 15-billion...
11) Air Force One
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
This **Oscar**-winner dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable, insightful story of a mother and daughter, unforgettably played by Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. From grand slapstick to deepest sentiment, director James L. Brooks masterfully paints scenes from their evolving 30-year relationship. Jack Nicholson turns in a great comic performance as MacLaine's neighbor, a boozy, womanizing former astronaut. Winner of five **Academy...
14) The FBI
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Enter the inner sanctum of today's FBI, with unprecedented access granted to National Geographic. Witness the Bureau's top-secret Strategic Initiative Operations Center at work. Explore the history of the FBI, from the days of J. Edgar Hoover till now.
15) The grifters
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.
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1 videodisc (103 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Danish
Description
On the desolate coast of Denmark live Martina and Philippa, the beautiful daughters of a devout clergyman who preaches salvation through self-denial. Both girls sacrifice youthful passion to faith and duty, and even many years after their dather's death, they keep his austere teachings alive among the townspeople. But with the arrival of Babette, a mysterious refugee from France's civil war, life for the sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change....
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2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth, - and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-dege scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed...
20) Magnolia
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2 videodiscs (191 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Magnolia is a mosaic of American life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax.
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