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1) Salvador
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an American nurse and three nuns, and the death of a fellow...
2) Surf's up
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Teenage Rockhopper penguin Cody Maverick is an up-and-coming surfer who is about to enter his first pro competition. Followed by a documentary crew to film his experiences, Cody leaves Antarctica for the warmer climes in order to surf in the Big Z Memorial Surf Championship covered by the SPEN network. His hero, champion surfer Big Z, has been gone for ten years, and Cody wants to win the championship in his memory. On his journey he encounters surfer-dude...
3) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Language
English
Description
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
4) Contact
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Special edition ; Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 200 min. ; approximately 100 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Explores the ideological conflict that existed between Thomas Jefferson...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Two-disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (229 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic tale of the lives of two New York gangsters from the period of the early 1900's through prohibition, and climaxing in their subsequent reunion in the 1960's. Friends from childhood, they entered a life of crime together that inevitably led to tragedy and death.
7) Chaplin
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Fifteenth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
8) Nixon
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Election year edition ; extended director's cut.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 213 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes a riveting look at the complex man whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power. His involvement in conspiracy jeopardized the nation's security and the presidency of the United States.
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sequel that spoofs a "haunted houseful" of great movies. A group of college students are invited to a house for a set of sleep studies. It's up to the students to get out alive.
10) Holocaust
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 449 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family of Berlin and intertwines their fate as European Jews with the story of a German family, the Dorfs, whose members include a high-ranking Nazi officer. Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass" occurs and the Weiss family suffer a series of unspeakable tragedies in the aftermath.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (768 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The equalizer: McCall is a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by; he has to help her.
Man on fire: Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life--...
12) Hercules
Series
Publisher
[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Taken from the gods as a newborn and adopted on earth, Hercules is just an awkward pillar of strength trying to fit in. What he wants most is to impress his father Zeus. When Hercules discovers Hades' sinister plot to take over Mount Olympus, he goes from zero to hero and, with the help of his pals Pegasus and Phil, discovers that real strength comes from the heart!
Series
Criterion collection volume 920
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (494 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Independence Day: Mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race.
Vantage point: An assassination attempt on the President of the United States is viewed by eight different people in eight separate locations, and as the pieces of the puzzle are put together, shocking truths beging to surface.
White House down: Capitol Policeman...
