Keith Carradine
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2007], c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This in-depth program focuses on the impressive technology that evolved as a result of America's great rush to riches, and explores the inventions that took mining from a one-man operation to a multi-billion-dollar industry.
4) The moderns
Series
Shout select volume 30
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An expatriate American in 1920's Paris is commissioned to forge three masterpieces, but the art collector's wife has something other than painting on her mind.
5) Peacock
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. John is launched into the spotlight...
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD(approx. 93 min.) : digital, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This classic story tells of life in post-Revolutionary America in which a man reluctantly leaves his 13-year-old son to guard their cabin in the wilderness while he returns to bring back the rest of the family and their possessions.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (12 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For better or worse, times are changing in Deadwood, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. In an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, they learn the hard way that fortune comes with a price.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When nine National Guardsmen enter the Louisiana swamp for routine training, they are unaware that just a handful of their ranks will make it out alive. Through an error in judgment, they incite an all-out war with some angry Cajuns who know the territory like the backs of their hands. Armed with a precious few bullets, and confused by the dimly lit, moss-covered maze into which they've stumbled, the innocent guardsmen know they'll be picked off...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing. The youngest of the gang falls in love with a girl he has met at their hideout. Their last robbery in Yazoo City goes bad and all three become notorious men, who are wanted by the law.
10) Trouble in mind
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Description
In a down-and-out brick corner of Rain City, set in the vague future/past, hapless denizens are drawn to Wanda's cafe like moths to a flame. At the center of the film is a romantic triangle between ex-cop/con Hawk, young mother Georgia, and her husband Coop.
11) Wooly boys
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charles has no idea what he's in for when his grandfather, Stoney, comes to Minneapolis for medical treatment. A pampered, big-city kid, Charles has a difficult time relating to this old man from a sheep ranch. But when Stoney's pal Chuck shows up to break Stoney out of the hospital, Charles is sweap up in the adventure of a lifetime. From a stolen hearse to a wild, hilarious race back to the Badlands of North Dakota, Charles learns to appreciate...
12) Nashville
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
A cornerstone of 1970s American filmmaking from Robert Altman. It is a view of the country's political and entertainment landscapes set in the nation's music capital. It weaves the stories of 24 characters-from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress-into a cinematic tapestry that is equal parts comedy, tragedy, and musical. It showcases Altman's ability to get to the heart of American life via its eccentric byways, and barrels forward to...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (16hrs. 35min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In her life, Elizabeth McCord has led many roles, as a CIA analyst, a professor, a wife, and a mother, but now, she leads America's foreign policy as Secretary of State. The sensitive nature of her work creates tension at home when she's forced to keep secrets from her husband Henry, recently reactivated as an intelligence asset. As tensions mount with Russia and chaos brews in the Middle East, Elizabeth answers directly to President Conrad Dalton....
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (991 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When it comes to prisoner negotiations, international aid, and thwarting the next world war, look no further than U.S. Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord. Since joining the White House staff, she's seen her fair share of global threats, but her greatest challenges lie ahead. While she and her husband Henry must outsmart their own personal stalker, new enemies emerge both overseas and in the states. Working alongside President Conrad Dalton, Elizabeth...
16) The Californians
Publisher
Hart Sharp
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gavin Ransom, a handsome land developer, wins the right to build a tract of garish mini-mansions on sensitive coastal real estate over the objection of environmentalists led by his sister, Olive Ransom, an intense, serious woman.
17) Dead man's walk
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 283 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The prequel to Lonesome Dove is set in the Texas Republic in the early 1840s, a time when Anglo, Hispanic, and Commanche cultures were in fierce conflict. Shows Gus and Call on a deadly trail to Santa Fe facing the rigors of nature and the elements, as well as outlaws, bandits, and the notorious Commanche warrior Buffalo Hump.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
19) Andre
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Maine harbormaster witnesses the impact of a playful and appreciative seal on his hometown, his family and especially on his shy nine-year-old daughter.
20) The Moderns
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A struggling American painter living in Paris in the 1920s becomes involved in a plot to forge three paintings-- this leads to run-ins with a cold-blooded businessman who happens to be married to his ex-wife.