Columbia Pictures Corporation
1) The big heat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An honest police sergeant risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration.
Series
Description
When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exhange for her exclusive story.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes. With the extraordinary twist in the tale, Andy finds that...
6) Homicidal
Publisher
Columbia Tristar
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A girl returns to her childhood home, only to become involved in mystery and murder.
7) Agnes of God
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When, at an isolated convent, the infant of a young nun is found strangled, a court-appointed psychiatrist must decide if the devout but troubled girl is fit to stand trial.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
10) Funny people
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
George is a very successful stand-up comedian who learns that he has less than a year to live. Ira, who is a struggling up-and-coming comedian works at a deli. One night the two perform at the same club, and George decides to make Ira his best friend. This lopsided relationship gradually takes on aspects of true friendship as Ira forces George to try to reconnect with the people in his life, including his ex-girlfriend Laura.
12) Cat Ballou
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When her father is murdered by a powerful businessman, a woman hires a has-been gunfighter to help her gain revenge.
13) Julie & Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
14) Taxi driver
Formats
Description
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy, he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris.
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
16) Angels & demons
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD (special features)
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
17) The Caine mutiny
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny is a criminal act or an act of courage...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 227 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Series
Description
A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
20) Sahara
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An explosive war story about a ragtag battalion stranded in the great African desert, after the fall of Tobruk during World War II.