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1) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
4) Everest
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, Everest documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help the surviving members of the ill-fated group. The international team of climbers scale the world's tallest peak in this daring adventure of triumph and tragedy.
5) Mountain
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From Tibet to Australia, Alaska to Norway armed with drones, Go-Pros and helicopters, director Jennifer Peedom has fashioned an astonishing symphony of mountaineers, ice climbers, free soloists, heliskiers, snowboarders, and parachuting mountain bikers. Willem Dafoe provides a narration sampled from British mountaineer Robert Macfarlane's acclaimed memoir Mountains of the Mind.
6) Everest
Formats
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...
8) North face
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, a gripping adventure about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps, the north face of the Eiger. Set in 1936, Nazi propaganda urges German alpinists to conquer the mountain, and two reluctant young climbers, Toni and Andi, attempt a daring ascent, closely followed by two Austrian climbers. All goes well at first, but then the climbers lose their advantage over the mountain and the race against time and...
10) Cliffhanger
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
A mountain climber who has lost his nerve finds himself on a rescue mission involving millions of stolen Treasury dollars and ruthless criminals.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Everest: Dramatic story of a team of climbers who found hope, strength, and triumph in the wake of tragedy.
Titanica: Plunge beneath the surface of the North Atlantic on a high-risk journey to the resting place of the ill-fated Titanic!
12) The summit
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of eleven mountaineers who mysteriously perished on K2 in 2008.
The story of the deadliest day on the world's most dangerous mountain, when 11 climbers mysteriously perished on K2.
15) Beyond the edge
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1953, the ascent of Everest remained the last of Earth's great challenges. Standing at over 29,000ft, the world's highest mountain posed a fearsome challenge and had already claimed thirteen lives in previous expeditions. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay finally achieved the impossible and became the first men to stand atop Everest, it was an event that stunned the world and defined an era.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (262 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sir Edmund Hillary was a bee-keeper, mountaineer, war veteran, explorer, philanthropist, husband, father, and the first person to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest. From his childhood in South Auckland, New Zealand, to the plane crash that killed his wife and daughter, the intriguing drama portrays the life, loves, and losses of one of the most famous explorers of all time.
17) Edie
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the death of her husband, a woman in her eighties decides to fulfill her dream of climbing Mount Suilven in the Scottish Highlands.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 7 hrs. 20 min.) : sd., b&w or col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Play Misty for me: Clint Eastwood stars as a radio disc jokey who becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
The Eiger sanction: A professional assassin is forced out of retirement in order to avenge a friend's murder in the Swiss Alps.
Coogan's bluff: An Arizona lawman whose unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer anger a tough NYC police lieutenant.
The beguiled: A wounded soldier...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (189 min.) : silent & sound, black & white & color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a love triangle between a self-absorbed husband, the neglected wife, and her opportunistic lover.
Gabbo, a ventriloquist, casts a Svengali-like spell on Mary, his assistant, with Little Otto, Gabbo's dummy. Gabbo drives away Mary, then realizes too late how much he loves her.
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