Joaquin Phoenix
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 48 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brings to life the diaries of young people who witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Through an emotional montage of sound and image, the film salutes this group of brave, young writers who refused to quietly disappear. The stories of the young Holocaust victims come to life by weaving together personal photos, handwritten pages and drawings from the diaries, and archival films. Original footage shot in Vilnius, Lithuania, in the remnants...
2) Ladder 49
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran of the Baltimore Fire Department under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. As Jack reflects on his life - seeing his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, the impact his job has had on his wife and kids - Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save Jack's...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A raw, fictional documentary on Joaquin Phoenix's career transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Defying expectations, it deftly explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.
4) Quills
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts, but eventually becomes...
6) Joker
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Most days, Arthur Fleck is bullied in public as he works as a clown-for-hire, but his slow descent into madness is hurried along by his mother's failing health, their strained connection with the rich Wayne family, and his failed comedy career.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father, to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts, and eventually becomes...
8) Gladiator
Series
Language
English
Description
The war against the Germans won, Emperor Aurelius chooses the victorious General Maximus as his successor to the Roman empire. Commodus, Aurelius' heir, is jealous of this and enslaves Maximus to the gladiatorial arenas.
9) To die for
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in New Hampshire, a media sensation erupts over a murder case against Suzanne Stone, in which she is accused of persuading teenagers to kill her husband, Larry Maretto. Obsessed with becoming a TV personality, she viewed her husband's desire for children as an impediment to her career.
11) Inherent vice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin.
12) Clay pigeons
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Standard/Widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A black comedy about serial murder, sexual obsession and stifling small-town paranoia.
13) We own the night
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York City, November 1988. Bobby Green is the manager of a Russian nightclub owned by Marat Buzhayev. The club is frequented by gangsters like Buzhayev's nephew Vadim. Despite Bobby's hedonistic and amoral lifestyle, he is committed to his girlfriend Amada. Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Captain Joseph Grusinsky and his father, Bert, is a legendary Deputy Chief. Bobby's strained relationship with his...
14) The village
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the elders to...
15) Hotel Rwanda
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
16) Two lovers
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Leonard moves back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, he meets two women in quick succession. Michelle is a mysterious and beautiful neighbor. Sandra is the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family's dry-cleaning business. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision, between desire and the comfort of love, or risk falling back into the same darkness that nearly killed him.
17) Reservation Road
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two fathers are forced to live with the same tragedy in two very different ways after an incident that involves them both on the same road.
18) The master
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sexual content, graphic nudity and language.
In post-World War II America, a naval veteran arrives home unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
19) Beau is afraid
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man faces his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque journey back home.
20) Signs
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen verion (16x9 ; 1.85:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on Graham Hess' Bucks County, Pennsylvania, farm and in many other places around the world. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he finds out the truth behind them and the other strange things that begin to happen.