Chiwetel Ejiofor
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his...
2) Amistad
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
3) Salt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues.
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maleficent travels to a grand old castle to celebrate young Aurora's upcoming wedding to Prince Phillip. While there, she meets Aurora's future mother-in-law -- a conniving queen who hatches a devious plot to destroy the land's fairies. Hoping to stop her, Maleficent joins forces with a seasoned warrior and a group of outcasts to battle the queen and her powerful army.
Publisher
River Road Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad...
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother, and former heir to the throne, has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy, and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Strange tampers with a risky forbidden spell that alters time and space and accidentally opens a gateway to the multiverse. Together with the Scarlet Witch and the unflappable Wong, Doctor Strange confronts countless dangers in strange and mysterious alternate realities to attempt to restore a single stable reality. As they travel through myriad different layers of the multiverse, they face down a new yet unsettlingly familiar adversary that...
8) Inside man
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tight knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
10) Sherlock Gnomes
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
11) The Martian
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet, he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies. When NASA realizes he is alive, they must devise a rescue mission.
12) Phil Spector
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star in this production written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated playwright David Mamet. An exploration of the client-attorney relationship between legendary music producer Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, who represented Spector during his first trial for murder.
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 770 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
The birth of a nation: Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
12 years a slave: The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to...
14) 2012
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The complex story of Melinda, a woman whose life is told from both a tragic and a comic perspective. Both stories involve the same woman who crashes a Manhattan dinner party, but with wildly different results.
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nigerian exile Okwe and Turkish chambermaid Senay toil at a west London hotel that is full of illegal activity. Late one night Okwe makes a shocking discovery, which creates an impossible dilemma and tests the limits of all they know.
17) Doctor Strange
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
18) Why Shakespeare?
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (21 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Various famous and not so famous individuals state the effect that Shakespeare's works have had in their lives. A main video presentation accompanied by seventeen vignettes.
19) Children of men
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
London, 2027. The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate journey of a disillusioned government agent who agrees to help transport and protect a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea where...
20) 2012
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Blu-ray version ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world.