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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this gripping and timely thriller follows an idealistic UN employee as he investigates the grisly murder of his predecessor and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may even involve his own boss.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Search of Easter: Explores the diverse accounts of Jesus' resurrection and current research and thinking about this event.
Quest for Noah's Flood: Join Titanic discoverer Dr. Robert Ballard as he embarks on a voyage to the Black Sea, where history mingles with ages-old tales of a catastrophic flood.
83) Gallipoli
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two young men (Mel Gibson and Mark Lee) are brought together in the Australian army in 1915. They cross continents and great oceans, climb pyramids and walk through the ancient sands of Egypt to join their regiment at the fateful battle of GALLIPOLI. Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes**. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**. "*Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 270 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1945, the Allies rounded up and interrogated thousands of party officials, war criminals, advocates, and Nazis. These interrogations are a fascinating, largely forgotten part of the historical record. Subjects include Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and minister of Armaments; the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolph Hess; Nazi Doctor Karl Gebhardt; and more. A horrifying portrait of the most evil regime in history.
85) The Alamo
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the historic battle by 185 men against a 7,000-man Mexican army--a battle that ended in the smaller forces' defeat, but lasted long enough to insure the eventual independence of Texas.
86) Hana yori mo nao
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai revenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community. The year is 1702, and young samurai Sozaemon Aoki (Junichi Okada) has arrived in Edo to seek revenge against Jubei Kanazawa (Tadanobu Asano). Kanazawa is the man responsible for the death...
88) Trumbo
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. It tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her...
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James McParlan is an operative working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who is hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist organization, the "Molly Maguires". The Mollies operate within the impoverished mining communities of Pennsylvania and are mostly Irish emigrants. McParlan is selected to infiltrate the organization to pose as a new member, but it quickly becomes apparent that the working conditions are truly...
91) The artist
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1941, Chinese railroad worker Ma Yuan organizes a group of freedom fighters to derail the Japanese war effort. Using his extensive knowledge of the train network, he leads his team of unlikely heroes on the most dangerous mission yet.
93) Cold Mountain
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2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
95) Ugetsu
Series
Criterion collection volume 309
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2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, black and white (disc 1) and color (disc 2) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Language
English
Description
In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord's book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the Titanic's final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night To Remember is cinema's subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
Series
Criterion collection volume 907
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
G.W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director's native Germany and beyond. Digging into the trenches with four infantrymen stationed in France in the final months of World War I, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, and the disillusion...
100) The pagan king
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On his deathbed, the reigning King bestows power upon an unexpected heir, who must find the strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades that threaten their freedom.
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