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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of psychedelic chemists Robert "Tim" Scully and Nicholas Sand, and how their positive experiences with LSD motivated them to become major players in the 1960s drug counterculture by creating ultrapure "Orange Sunshine" acid.
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2 videodiscs (289 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow Clint Eastwood as he guides you through the history of one of the greatest motion picture studios. From it's early days where it's major star was four-legged through the Depression and war until it emerges as a 21st century giant.
24) Zulu
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1879 Africa, hours after the battle of Isandhlwana. A group of British soldiers stood their ground at a farm house against an onslaught of Zulus.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Musashi is now a legendary swordsman whose latest quest is to save an isolated village from rampaging brigands. He also, remains haunted by his memories of Otsu. Meanwhile, the ruthless and increasingly jealous Kojiro plots his battle royal with Musashi to prove who is the finest swordsman in Japan.
26) Soaked in bleach
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary/docudrama revealing the events behind Kurt Cobain's death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to track down her missing husband only days before his deceased body was found at their Seattle home. Cobain's death was ruled a suicide by the police (a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound), but doubts have circulated for twenty years as to the legitimacy of this ruling, especially...
27) Harakiri
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([26] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
After an unemployed samurai is forced to commit harakiri before a feudal lord, his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual.
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The second part of the series covers events such as the railway built by the inmates and known as the SS Death Railway, the story behind the internment of an eminent band of French political figures sent to the camp, the harrowing stories and scenes discovered by American forces when liberating the camp in 1945 and the 'revenge' trials of camp officials and guards. Mixes authentic documentary film with exclusively shot location footage.
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life shaped the life of Abraham Lincoln. Using glorious cinematography to conjure an America where the land was raw, the film sheds new light on the formative years of the future president and the two women who molded him into one of the most revered men in American history.
31) The Red Baron
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1 videodisc (106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Europe, 1916: Baron Manfred von Richthofen is a crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces, a legend in his own time, a hero at home, and a man both feared and respected by the enemy. Von Richthofen and his fellow officers see their duels in the sky as tactical, almost sportsmanlike, challenges. But, when he falls in love with Kate, she opens his eyes to the fact that there is more to war than dogfights and he becomes aware of his role in the...
32) A quiet passion
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : illustrations)
Language
English
Description
The story of poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius, wit, intellectual independence, and pathos only came to be recognized after her death.
33) Apollo 11
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From director Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, the film takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission, the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
34) A knight's tale
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1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.
36) Super volcanoes!
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (61 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shows footage of the eruptions and destruction caused by Kilauea in 1959 and Vesuvius in 1944, and how volcanoes are responsible for the topography of the Pacific Ocean floor and the formation of islands.
Physical Desc
2 DVD videos (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Latino Americans chronicles the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have for the past 500-plus years helped shape what is today the United States. It is a story of people, politics, and culture, intersecting with much that is central to the history of the United States while also going to places where standard U.S. histories do not tend to tread.
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1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, black & white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lost mines, abandoned diggings, ghost towns. The very words conjure enigmatic images of the Old West, of the thousands of towns and mining camps that boomed and died during that brief era when men scrambled through unexplored territory, searching for the next big gold strike.
40) The big lift
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, the Soviet Union blockades the Allied sections of Berlin in order to bring the city completely under their dominance. Sgt. Hank Kowalski and Sgt. Danny McCullough are part of the American force sent to help the war-torn German civilians. Still struggling with misguided loathing of Germans, their experience and relationships with the men and women of Berlin help them overcome these prejudices ... [F]ilm on location in bombed-out Berlin."--Container....
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