Joe Morton
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
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In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient...
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"The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out"--
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions of the boy's identity comes up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
5) Hemingway
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Examine the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers: Ernest Hemingway. Intimate and insightful, the series weaves together Hemingway's biography with excerpts from his work. The film penetrates the myth of Hemingway to reveal a deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure.
6) Bounce
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English
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Academy Award winners Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow light up the screen as two strangers who find love amid tragedy. Buddy Amaral is a smooth-talking, skirt-chasing ad executive who is enjoying his high-powered career. Then, a sudden twist of fate changes everything and leads him into the life of Abby Janello. Bounce is an endearing story about finding love in the unexpected.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to recruit a team to stand against this newly awakened enemy. Despite the formation of an unprecedented league of heroes, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash, it may be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
The U.S. and the Holocaust examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century....
10) Justice League
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes it may already be too late to save the planet form an assault of catastrophic...
11) Speed
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English
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L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist, Jack Traven, is sent out to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a city bus. Annie, one of the passengers on that bus, must now keep the bus speeding through the streets of L.A. at more than 50 miles per hour. If she goes below 50, the bomb on board the bus will detonate.
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English
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The Terminator is back with another mission requiring that he travel back in time. A lethal machine (Patrick) has been sent back through time to kill a boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future (Furlong). The Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is sent to save the boy, assisted by the boy's mother (Hamilton), a woman whose warnings of a world headed toward nuclear disaster go unheeded.
14) Stealth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full screen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.
15) The Inkwell
Publisher
Burbank, CA
Pub. Date
[200-?], 1994
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inkwell Beach is a place where cool clothes, hot music and good friends turn a dull family trip into the summertime vacation of a lifetime.
16) Grand Central
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at New York City's newest landmark. The new Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street housed an underground electric train station that would revolutionize the way people traveled and transform midtown Manhattan. By 1947, over sixty-five million people, the equivalent of forty percent of the population of the United States, had traveled through the station.
17) Dragonfly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Joe, is a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily who died in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe feels obligated to check in on his wife's pediatric patients, fulfilling a promise he made before she left. Visiting the ward, Joe starts to believe that Emily is using the near-death experiences of her terminal patients to communicate with him, through images the children report seeing in their dreams,...
18) Speed
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1994, [2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and passenger must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour-- or the bomb will explode.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 460 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Acclaimed documentary filmmakers offer a fresh, compelling look at 10 pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions.