Joseph Sargent
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the emotional true story of two men who defined the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas from an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1693, the village of Salem, Massachusetts was overcome with superstitious hysteria. At the peak of the madness some hundred fifty people, male and female, were accused of being witches. 19 of them were executed. Salem witch trials dramatically revisits colonial America and the most famous witch-hunt of all time.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The widowed Ellen Brody now finds herself reliving the horrors of the past when a mammoth shark kills her son. Grief-stricken, she travels to the Bahamas to be with her other son, a marine biologist, and his family. There she meets and falls for a carefree airplane pilot. But just as she is putting her life back together, the nightmare of the past returns when her granddaughter is attacked by an all-too-familiar Great White. Determined to end the...
7) Warm springs
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1969
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Ultimate computer creates the ultimate terror in this chillingly real sci-fi suspense thriller. When electronic genius Charles Forbin creates a massive computer complex that is capable of independently regulating the national defense of the United States, it appears that no enemy will ever be able to penetrate its sovereign borders. But such a promising thought turns into a stunning nightmare when it's discovered the Russians have built an equally...
9) MacArthur
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A biographical drama of one of the most controversial public figures of his time, General Douglas MacArthur.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
11) Miss Evers' boys
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1932, Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with doctors on the "Tuskegee Experiment" to study the effects of syphilis. She is faced with a terrible dilemma when she learns the patients are denied treatment that could cure them.
13) White lightning
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
14) Skylark
Publisher
Sarah Productions
Pub. Date
2002, c1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
