Ed Harris
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Michael Vaughn is a phony psychic medium who is kidnapped by a guilt-ridden murderer who believes Michael can help him make peace with the spirit of his dead victim. But when Michael learns that his captor's crime is a high-profile unsolved case, he devises a plan to use the captor's secret to gain fame and fortune on a national stage."--Container.
22) Gone baby gone
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Amanda McCready is a 4-year-old who has disappeared from her Boston home. The police make little headway in solving the case, so the girl's aunt hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Patrick and Angie must face...
23) A beautiful mind
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English
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Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
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1 audio disc (41 min., 36 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets.
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English
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Includes interviews, commentaries and excerpts from the novel, providing first-hand accounts of why The Grapes of Wrath remains so compelling seven decades after its initial publication. Teacher's guide contains ten lessons, each with a focus topic, discussion activities, writing exercises, and homework assignments. Also includes capstone projects, suggested essay topics, handouts with more background information, and bibliographical references. Lessons...
25) 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...
26) The Hours
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Three women (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) in different times are related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway". Winner of Best Actress (Nicole Kidman) at the **Academy Awards,** the **BAFTA Awards** and the **Golden Globes.** Winner of a Silver Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International...
27) Nixon
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3 videodiscs (approximately 212 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Anthony Hopkins electrifies the screen as Richard Nixon, whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power. Nixon takes a riveting look at a complex man who became the first American president to resign, due to the threat of impeachment and his involvement in conspiracy jeopardizing the nation's security.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 619 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Meticulously crafted and artfully designed. Westworld...
29) Walker
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Criterion collection volume 423
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker, who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity and the support of the Sandinista army and government during the contra war the film...
30) The way back
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1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1941 three men walked out of the Himalayas into India. They has survived a 4,000 mile walk to freedom. While there is disagreement on whether or not this is a true story, this film is a textbook example of the "man vs. Nature-red-in-tooth-and-claw" survival film. Janusz, a Polish prisoner of war, is forced to sign a false confession and shipped off to Siberia to rot in the most brutal prison system in the world -- the Gulag. In prison, he meets...
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3 videodiscs (approximately 636 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Welcome back to Westworld, where the puppet show is over and the newly liberated 'hosts' are coming for humankind. In Season Two, Dolores takes charge, Maeve is on a mission and the Man in Black is back. Chaos takes control in this dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life, and the evolution of sin.
32) Absolute power
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed, and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
A jewel thief witnesses the American president commit a murder and cannot remain silent through the ensuing coverup.
33) Gravity
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A brilliant engineer is on her first shuttle mission, with a veteran astronaut and acting space commander. Then disaster strikes the shuttle, leaving the two completely out of touch with Earth. With little oxygen and energy left, how will they survive?
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set in California apple country in the 1930s, nine hundred migratory workers rise up and join forces to protest unfair wages and working conditions. As the labor strike wears on and conflict grows between the apple pickers and the local growers' association, what begins as a fight for their rights turns into an all-out battle for survival in this star-studded retelling of John Steinbeck's beloved novel.
35) The rock
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1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An FBI chemical weapons expert joins forces with a former British spy to rescue the hostages held on Alcatraz island by a group of Marines who have missiles loaded with poison gas.
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans to finally secure him The Congressional Medal of Honor...
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction puts their religious convictions to the test, and also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship...
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7 videodiscs (approximately 840 minutes) : sound, color with black & white segments ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
39) Winter passing
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1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
40) Run all night
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon, once known as The Gravedigger, has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire, Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past. Lately, it seems Jimmy's only solace can be found at the bottom of a whiskey glass. But when Jimmy's estranged son, Mike, becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago.