Tim Robbins
Publisher
IFC Films
Formats
Description
It's just another day on the job for a band of badass combat zone rescue workers as they defy death and confront war's absurdities. The setting is 1995, somewhere in the Balkans. Over the course of 24 breathless hours, Mambru, leads his team of humanitarian, including hard-bitten, wisecracking veteran B and new recruit Sophie, as they deal with a most unexpected crisis, layers of bureaucratic red tape, and the reappearance of Mambru's old flame.
Publisher
PBS distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This two part special details the impact of the arts on the human brain across a person's lifetime and explores its role in early human development. Stories are shared showing how the arts can improve children's school performance and reveals cutting edge science that explains the powerful, positive impact of the arts on the human brain.
3) Bull Durham
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
American romantic comedy, dealing with a very minor minor-league team and three of its current constituents, an aging baseball groupie that beds one player each season, a cocky foolish new pitcher, and the older, weary catcher brought in to wise the rookie up.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the outrage that will follow her decision.
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
By 2006, as many as 5,000 electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. Today, the electric car is back with a vengeance. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America's future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever. It's not just the next generation of green cars that's on the line, it's the future of the automobile itself.
6) Bull Durham
Series
Criterion collection volume 936
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A love triangle surrounds members of a North Carolina minor league baseball team.
7) Bull Durham
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Bull Durham's new catcher, "Crash" Davis (Kevin Costner), punches out the cocky young pitcher, "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), he's just been hired to train. Then sexy Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) informs both men that each season she chooses one player to share her bed—and Nuke and Crash are this year's "draft picks." Of course, the sparks fly in this romantic comedy classic about America's other...
8) Code 46
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the near future, privileged classes live and work "Inside" cities, while non-citizens scratch out a miserable existence "Outside" in a vast desert. People cannot leave their designated zones without special visas known as "papelles." When fraudulent papelles surface, Seattle fraud investigator William Geld travels to Shanghai to ferret out the culprit and meets Maria Gonzalez ... a woman with whom he has a passionate affair, but breaks one of society's...
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Erik the Viking, tired of killing and plundering, sets out on an epic quest to Valhalla, where he and his men plan on asking the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and bring sunshine back to the skies.
10) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Convicted for a murder he did not commit, a quiet banker struggles to cope with prison life and develops a friendship with another inmate; when John Coffey arrives on the death row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, the prison guards discover that he has mysterious powers hidden within him.
13) Jacob's ladder
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jacob is a man living in a nightmare. Having survived Vietnam, he's back home in New York City. But memories of both his wartime demons and the accidental death of his son haunt and terrorize him. Jacob's grip on reality begins to slip and only his friend can save him.
14) The big fix
Publisher
Green Planet Productions
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow two daring filmmakers, Josh and Rebecca Tickell, as they go undercover to expose the secrets of the largest industry on Earth - Big Oil. The Tickells set out to investigate the root causes of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and, in so doing, discover a vast network of corporate and government malfeasance.
15) Arlington Road
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117:19 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 scene index insert.
Description
Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by a right-wing group, college professor Michael Faraday becomes obsessed with the culture of these groups--especially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang, start acting suspiciously.
16) Tapeheads
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
After being fired from their jobs, Ivan and Josh form 'Video Aces' to break into the world of music videos. But when they try to resuscitate the career of a legendary soul duo, they find themselves careening through the outrageous underworld of music.
17) Mission to Mars
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
NASA launches a Mars Recovery Mission to investigate and bring back survivors from the first manned mission to Mars which has mysteriously disappeared.
18) Green Lantern
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. When a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the company and they will be successful again. However, a tough...
20) Zathura
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Danny twists the key of an old science fiction game. The game unleashes a localized meteor shower and wrenches Danny's house into orbit around a distant ringed planet. Besides Danny, his brother Walter and sister Lisa have to go along. Soon a defective robot, a rangy astronaut, and an alien spaceship enter the picture. The only way the kids can return their house to its proper space-time coordinates is to finish the game, but before they can finish,...