Christopher Plummer
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
647 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
In this rollicking self-portrait from one of today's great actors, Plummer tells of his privileged Canadian upbringing, rich in Victorian gentility, and how he tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big, bad world of theater.
2) Barrymore
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the height of his remarkable career, John Barrymore was the most celebrated entertainer of his generation. The reigning king of both Broadway and Hollywood, his decline and fall from grace was the tragic result of a self-destructive spiral into vice and excess. And now, with his career in tatters, he makes one final attempt to reclaim his former glory on the stage in this powerful, heartbreaking, humorous and compassionate portrait of a tortured...
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Madeline and the pirates: Madeline's vivid imagination runs wild when she discovers mean pirates on an island. Oh! But appearances can be deceiving! See what happens to Madeline as the excitement builds in the last act! Madeline and the gypsies: Pepito and Madeline are stranded at the gypsy carnival. During that time they visit some of the most beautiful and exciting places in France. In spite of the maneuvers of the Gypsy Mamma, Miss Clavel finally...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (419 min.) : sd., col, b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 p.)
Description
The American movie business started as peepshows and grew into a near-mythical art form that used an exciting new technology to create drama, laughter and adventure literally bigger than life. Here is the whole story -- the glamour and the sweat, the collaborations and the conflicts, the careers that skyrocketed and the dreams that crashed -- in the biggest production ever from Turner Classic Movies, the leading authority on classic movies and film...
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Madeline and the dog show: In an old house in Paris, covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines, with their doggie named Genevieve, faithful and true. There was nothing Genevieve could not do! Madeline's rescue: Madeline falls into the river and is rescued by Genevieve (the dog). She becomes adopted by the girls of the school, but the trustees disapprove and Genevieve is banished.
9) Beginners
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
10) Elsa & Fred
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love. After losing his wife, Fred feels disturbed, confused and alone, so his daughter helps move him into a small apartment where he meets Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into Fred's life like a whirlwind, determined to teach him that the time he has left to live, be it more or less, is precious and that he should enjoy it as he pleases....
11) The new world
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set admidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607. Tells the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. This woman's journey of love lost and found again takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English society as we witness the dawn of a new America.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
13) 12 monkeys
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
After the world's population is devastated by a killer virus, Cole volunteers to travel into the past to obtain a pure virus sample to help scientists develop a cure
14) The exception
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While trying to determine if a Dutch spy has infiltrated the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, a German soldier falls for a young Jewish woman.
15) Remember
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A suspense-filled story of Zev, an Auschwitz survivor who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some seventy years ago; is living in America under an assumed identity. With the aid of a friend, Zev sets out on a gripping journey that tests both his will and his fading memory as it brings him closer to the retribution he seeks.
16) Closing the ring
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
World War II. On June 1, 1944, a United States bomber pilot crashes onto the Cave Hill just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He lives long enough to give a ring to a stranger and asks that he return it to his girlfriend. 50 years later, a young man searches for the woman to make good on a promise.
18) Remember
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
©2016.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A suspense-filled story of Zev, an Auschwitz survivor who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some seventy years ago; is living in America under an assumed identity. With the aid of a friend, Zev sets out on a gripping journey that tests both his will and his fading memory as it brings him closer to the retribution he seeks.
19) Nuremberg
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatic presentation of the WWII war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany.
20) Inside man
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 9 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...