Joseph Fiennes
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (506 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Season Five of the Handmaid's Tale, June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead's influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise to power. June, Lucke, and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite...
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
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 525 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Handmaid June finds herself once again in resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead after opting not to flee to Canada with her baby at the end of the second season. Now, she will struggle to strike back against the regime despite overwhelming odds. This season there are startling reunions, betrayals and a journey to the terrifying heart of Gilead that will force all of the characters to take a stand, guided by one defiant prayer: Blessed be the...
6) Elizabeth
Series
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naïve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for the good of her country.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When is life not worth living anymore? Paul Thomas talks old buddy Jeff into helping him fulfill a crazy childhood dream of swimming the entire 150-mile length of the Hudson River. Joined by Liz, a teacher intrigued by their scheme, they plunge into their adventure with glee. But Jeff and Liz soon realize Paul is driven by more than just the stunt when they find out Paul's deadline to finish is also the anniversary of his wife's unexpected death.
8) Hercules
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Radical Comics' Hercules by Steve Moore, this ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth. It offers the truth behind the myth by presenting the fashioning of a warrior who, for all his strength and courage, is flesh and blood.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (718 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. In season two, Offred and all our characters will fight against or succumb to this dark truth.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (519 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Season Four, June strikes back against Gilead as a fierce rebel leader, but the risks she takes bring dangerous new challenges, and her quest for justice and revenge threatens to consume her.
11) Risen
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune, and his aide Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
12) The great raid
Series
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Penninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually surrendered and the troops were marched off to prison. Along...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1942 and the Nazis are cutting a deadly swath through Russia. Under the leadership of Kruschev, the citizens of Stalingrad are mounting a brave resistance, spurred by the exploits of their local hero, Vassili Zaitsev. An expert sniper, Vassili's deeds have become legendary, thanks to propaganda produced by a political officer named Danilov. To stop Vassili, the Germans dispatch their best sniper, Major Konig, to Stalingrad. When Vassili and...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shylock has grown wealthy through money-lending, the only profession open to Jewish businessmen of the time, but faces indignity and danger when he ventures beyond the Jewish quarter. In the same city, though in a different world, lives Antonio, a Christian merchant beset by worry over the fate of his trading vessels and his increasing isolation from his best friend Bassanio. The younger man has fallen in love with the beautiful Portia, and seeks...
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 video disc (89 min.) : col., sd., ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Little Sparrows : In the middle of an Australian summer, we meet three sisters. Nina is widowed with two young children. Anna is an aspiring actress unhappily married to a filmmaker. Christine is a med student who has yet to fully come to terms with her sexuality. When their mother Susan's breast cancer returns, the family is faced with the reality of their last Christmas together. As each daughter confronts personal change and growth, Susan guides...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six episodes combine history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis and the personal passion of its celebrated hosts, to tell the story behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.
18) Strangerland
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Newcomers to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, Catherine and Matthew Parker's lives are flung into crisis when they discover their two teenage kids, Tommy and Lily, have mysteriously disappeared just before a massive dust storm hits. With Nathgari eerily smothered in red dust and darkness, the townsfolk join the search led by local cop, David Rae. It soon becomes apparent that something terrible may have happened to Tommy and Lily.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sinbad, a daring and notorious rogue, has spent his life sailing the seven seas asking for trouble. Now he had been framed for stealing a priceless and powerful treasure - the Book of Peace. Sinbad has on chance to find, then return the precious book, and battle the Goddess of Chaos or his best friend Proteus will die.
20) Dust
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the 20th century, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. When she chooses the younger of the two, the embittered older brother travels to Europe where he becomes a ruthless mercenary. But a revolution takes a personal twist with one brother hanging on the edge of life and death.