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2 videodiscs (430 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When trouble rears its ugly head, headline-making, life-ruining trouble, there's only one person to call: the legendary Olivia Pope. With her steadfast rule of always trusting her gut, Olivia leads an expert team of crisis management consultants skilled at making even the most sordid, salacious scandals disappear. But as these self-proclaimed 'gladiators in suits' begin to reveal the cracks in their armor, will the masters of damage control be able...
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A corrupt mayor and his assistant, accustomed to scamming and stealing during his term, embark on a journey in search of a dead man to inaugurate the cemetery of his village days before his term as mayor ends, however, on this trip they become victims of extortion, scams, and humiliation by people who only care about their WIIFM, what's in it for me? They prove to them that it is not necessary to have a privileged position to be corrupt, these characters...
3) Belle epoque
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Spain, 1931 is a politically divided nation and on the brink of war. With allegiances torn between Republican and Traditionalist factions, Fernando, a disillusioned soldier, has chosen a third option, going AWOL. Fate intervenes during his escape when he meets Manolo, an admiring land owner who sees himself mirrored in the young man and welcomes him into his home, a home inhabited by Manolo's four visiting daughters, each more beautiful than the other....
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4 videodiscs (774 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now, seemingly invincible "fixer" Olivia Pope must confront the ultimate challenge: fixing herself. After sifting through her mysterious father's labyrinth of lies, Olivia's search for answers about her mother threatens not just national security, but the entire world. Meanwhile, the lives of her "gladiators", as well as those of the president, his wife and key White House staffers, take sinister, unexpected turns.
5) Gandhi
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Gandhi beginning with his political activities in South Africa during the late 1890's and ending with his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948. Shows the development of his philosophy of non-violence as he leads the people of India to independence from the British.
6) No
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Series
Criterion collection volume 943
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (19 cm).
Language
Español
Description
Sergio, a bourgeois intellectual Cuban, is alone after the departure of his wife, parents and friends in the wake of the Bay of Pigs incident. Now in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana before finally meeting Elena, a young virgin girl he seeks to mold into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson was best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he was a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Based on harrowing true events, it tells the story of Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic, and never returned. Stonewalled by a byzantine and indifferent legal system, Georgina approaches journalist Pedro Campas, who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions, suggesting a rotting corruption deep within Peruvian society. Set in 1988, in a Peru wracked by political...
10) District 9
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth are marked by squalor, dysfunction, and xenophobic hostility....
12) Cromwell
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1 videodisc (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.
13) Citizen X
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Viktor Burakov (Rea), a brilliant forensics expert but an inexperienced detective, is put in charge of investigating the case of a serial killer. As the number of victims continues to rise, the investigation slows to a standstill, buried under government red tape.
14) Shadow dancer
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When single mother Collette McVeigh ... is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA plot in London, an MI5 officer ... offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son's life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in the MI5 and return home. When her brothers' secret operation is ambushed, suspicions of an informant are raised and Collette finds both herself and her family...
15) Emperor
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1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. He challenges his expert on Japanese culture, General Fellers to provide evidence in ten short days to decide if the Japanese Emperor, worshipped as a god by his people but accused of war crimes, should be punished or saved, as the fate of a nation waits.
After World War II, Brigadier General Bonner Fellers...
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1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
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1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([4] pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army -- made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas -- took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops, and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Fighting for indigenous Mexicans to regain control over their lives and the land, the Zapatistas and their charismatic leader, guerilla poet Subcomandante Marcos, began sending...
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