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1) Deluge
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
Triggered by a series of earthquakes on the West Coast of the United States, a massive tidal wave circles the globe and-in a prolonged and spectacular special effects sequence-wipes out New York City. Sidney Blackmer stars as a man who, separated from his family, must begin to rebuild civilization in the wake of the catastrophe. For decades, DELUGE was a lost film of almost mythical status, until horror/sci-fi archivist Forrest J. Ackerman discovered...
2) Airplane!
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film. Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, 1980. With a budget of $3.5 million it went on to make nearly $200 million in sales and has influenced a multitude of comedians on both sides of the camera. Surely You Can't Be Serious is the first-ever oral history of the making of Airplane! by the...
4) Tornado!
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
A storm chaser (Campbell) helps a former meteorology professor (Hudson) to use his new invention with which he hopes to collect data to be used to predict tornado activity. The only hitch: They must place the device smack in the devastating path of the twister-- and get away in time. To make matters worse, Samantha Callen (Sturges), a field investigator from the National Accounting Office, has been dispatched to kill the program, unless she can be...
5) 13 Minutes
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just thirteen minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength...
6) Cast away
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chuck Noland is a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. He has a girlfriend, Kelly, with whom he is deeply in love with and family he hardly sees. When work intrudes on Christmas Eve, Chuck has a quick gift exchange in the car and kisses Kelly goodbye. He boards a delivery plane going overseas which gets caught in a horrendous storm and crashes onto the shores of a deserted tropical island in the Pacific....
7) Melancholia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully filmed movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire , and brother-in-law John. A planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth and threatening to collide. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting and relationships are fraying as the family deals with their fears.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[Spanish, English or French subtitled version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.
10) Moonfall
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...
11) Arctic blast
Publisher
distributed by ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a solar eclipse sends a blast of super-chilled air towards the earth, a brilliant but troubled physicist tries to warn the scientific community of the impending disaster. When his attempt fails, he is forced to use unconventional methods to warn the world's governments, but will he be successful at stopping the impending ice age?
12) Supercell
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Baseball-size hail, violent winds, and churning tornadoes make supercells deadly, and when William Brody was a boy, his father a legendary storm-chaser was killed by one. Now, the family business belongs to Zane Rogers, a reckless tour operator who sees dollar signs where others see storm clouds. When his destiny arrives in the form of one of the most powerful storms on record, William leaves his mom and home behind to team up with his father's ex-partner,...
13) The finest hours
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.
15) Everest
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
16) Greenland
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximate running time 120 min.) : sound, color 12 cm
Language
English
Description
As cities around the world are being destroyed by a comet, a family races against time to reach a possible safe haven.
17) San Andreas
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a magnitude nine earthquake leaves California in ruins, a helicopter pilot and his estranged wife make their way to San Francisco to save their only daughter.
18) Geostorm
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Destruction, action and violence.
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong. The system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything.
19) The day after
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min. ; 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following a nuclear strike against the United States, families in small-town Kansas try to survive as radiation slowly kills everything around them.
20) Skyfire
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young scientist invents a cutting-edge volcanic warning system and returns to the tropical island where her mother tragically died, hoping she can prevent future deaths. The island is now home to the world's only volcano theme park and resort, the brainchild of its reckless owner Jack. Chaos soon erupts when the once dormant volcano starts to rumble. It's a battle with nature to get off the island while fiery death and destruction rains down from...
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