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41) Firestarter
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Charlene 'Charlie' McGee is a child who has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency, 'The Shop, ' that wants her destroyed?
42) Apocalypse now
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1 videodisc (approximately 153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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English
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A snow lion is a mythic beast of Tibetan legend. As a protector of the nation, the snow lion is emblazoned on the Tibetan flag. Today the Tibetan flag is outlawed in its homeland. Ten years in the making, filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. After the Chinese Civil War, the People's Republic of China incorporated Tibet in 1950; in the aftermath have come Tibetan rebellion, border wars, the flight of the Dalai...
45) The vessel
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2 videodiscs (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A local priest of a Latin American fishing village is recovering from a tsunami that washed away dozens of elementary school students. Ten years later, one of the young villagers miraculously comes back to life, and the whole town wonders if he is a sign from God.
47) Downwind
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1 videodisc (approximately 96 minutes) sound, color 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living ... downwind.
49) Bobby
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Revisits the night presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in June 1968. Tells the stories of a variety of people present on that fateful night, ranging from Kennedy's campaign staff and volunteers to the hotel owner, employees such as kitchen staff, and various guests.
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
An authentic account of the Vietnam War from the actual letters of the men and women who served there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships made and lost - these letters home tell it all, with newsreel and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves. These are the authentic voices of war, some who survived, many who never made it home.
51) Gandhi
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English
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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.
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
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...
53) Storm
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English
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A meteorologist sets out to derail the top secret weather-manipulating program he mistakenly became a part of.
54) Trash
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
When three trash-picking boys from Rio's slums find a wallet in amongst the daily detritus of their local dump, little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet's return, the boys realize that what they've found must be important.
55) The Vessel
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English
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Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
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1 videodisc (Not rated)(approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A dramatization of the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. Looks at the tension and decision making process President Kennedy and his staff endured trying to make a firm point about Cuba while keeping the US out of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...
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From the worldwide best-selling children's book series, the next chapter of The Boxcar Children is here! Copy these links into your browser to access free activities and trivia with Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny! http://chilp.it/2c86803 and http://chilp.it/db3260b