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Bedford Falls Company
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks, is obsessed with the Beatles and has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them. As the daughter reaches age 7, Sam's limitations start to become a problem. When the authorities take his daughter away, Sam shames a high-priced lawyer into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
5) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
7) Traffic
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his increasingly drug-addicted...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before!
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
[Widescreen and full screen version.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With a couple of grand in the bank and a dream in their heart, Earl and Baby plan their escape from their hometown in Bennett, Texas. They are heading to Los Angeles. But Earl's dim-witted cousin, an ex-con and an angry drug lord are threatening to derail their plans. With just 48 hours to straighten out this mess, Earl finds himself smack dab in the middle of an even bigger mess.
10) The siege
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Islamic militants unleash terrorism by blowing up in a bus in Brooklyn. FBI Terrorism Task Force chief Anthony Hubbard investigates. Agents track a suspect through Brooklyn, while Hub teams with Middle East expert and NSA operative Elise Kraft. After the FBI wipes out three Arabs in a Brooklyn apartment, an explosion in a Broadway theater is followed by attacks on a school and the FBI headquarters. When the President declares martial law, neo-fascist...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Living in Philadelphia, married thirtysomething couple, Hope and Michael are struggling with everyday adult angst. Michael runs an ad agency with his friend Elliot. Elliot's marriage to Nancy is beginning to show the cracks of age, as is the friendship between Hope and her best friend Ellyn. Michael's best friend, Gary, on the other hand, is trying to get on with his womanising life, and get over the mutually-destructive affair he had with Michael's...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 990 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rick, a divorced father-of-two, meets Lily, a newly-separated mother-of-two. They begin a relationship, which has a significant impact not only on their lives but on those of their children and ex-spouses, as well.
