Fred Zinnemann
1) The Men
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this emotional drama, the incomparable Marlon Brando plays former GI, Ken, who has become paralyzed as a result of the war. After fighting through an intense battle with depression following his injuries, Ken soon focuses on his physical therapy and eventually believes that he may gain the use of his limbs again. But after falling in love and marrying the woman of his dreams, problems arise that puts Ken right back into the hospital. Nominated...
2) Oklahoma!
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c1989]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
6) High noon
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A married couple in Australia find themselves at odds when the wife wants to settle down on a farm of their own, but the husband finds settling down more than his untethered spirit can bear.
9) Julia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Born to great wealth, the firecely independent Julia devotes her life to political causes, fighting facism in the 1930's. While traveling in Europe, a friend of Julia's is swept into a dangerous world, smuggling money across hostile borders.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.
11) High noon
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2012, p1952
Edition
Full screen 60th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a killer he had sent to jail vows revenge, a retired marshal takes up his badge and guns again, alienating his new Quaker bride.
12) High noon
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. The townspeople refuse to help him, so he is forced to take up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride, a Quaker who is opposed to violence.
13) The men
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013], p1950
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ex-WWII GI, Ken returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancé and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo, and Angel, begin to pull him out of his spiritual miasma.
14) Oklahoma!
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cowboy wins his girl despite the intervention of a sinister hired hand.
15) Act of violence
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Act of violence: Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be.
Mystery street: Vivian is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod. Once there, she strands Henry. Months later, a skeleton is found on a lonely...
16) Oklahoma!
Language
English
Formats
Description
A couple of young cowboys win the hearts of their sweethearts in the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the century. Despite the interference of an evil ranch hand and a roaming peddler.
Publisher
Naxos
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (174 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Set in the fishing community of Alvarado on the Gulf Coast of Mexico, near the city of Veracruz, the story concerns the struggle of poor fishermen to overcome exploitation by their employer.
18) The nun's story
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
An overview of the life and career of photographer Paul Strand. Features Strand's most famous photographs, clips from his films, and interviews with his wife, friends, and collaborators.