Steven Spielberg
61) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Formats
Description
The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who is forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a British boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Indy's Nazi enemies are back and have kidnapped his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. to get help in their search for the Holy Grail. Following a trail from America to Venice to the deserts of the Middle East, it's up to Indy to save his father, save the Grail and save the day.
65) Ready player one
Formats
Description
It's 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts decides to join...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 minutes) : digital, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Doc Brown has decided to live in the Old West of the 1880's. But when he's in danger of meeting an untimely end, Marty travels back into the past to rescue him. There's just one problem: Doc is so smitten by a schoolteacher that he's become distracted. Now, it's up to Marty to keep Doc out of trouble, get the DeLorean running, and put the past, present and future on track so they can all get back to where and when they belong.
70) Jurassic Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c1971-c1972
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 725 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Columbo, a disheveled, cigar-chomping, trench coat-wearing police lieutenant, who appears to be an incompetent bumbler. Despite his appearance, Columbo is the shrewdest, most resourceful detective in the LAPD.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (213 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A salesman is looking for something really special for his son when a reluctant shopkeeper sells him the adorable 'Mogwai.' A gang of nasty gremlins evolve when the directions for care are not followed. Special features included.
73) Schindler's list
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD(ca. 196 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...
74) The goonies
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two kids find a treasure map just as they're about to lose their house. They and their friends go on a search for the treasure, but not without trouble from a few ne'er-do-wells.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Beginning with a prologue in which a young Indiana Jones is introduced, the epic continues with the adult Indy embarking on a perilous quest for his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. The Nazis are on the trail of the Holy Grail, and have kidnapped the professor, who is an authority on the Cup of Christ. Indy inches through rat-filled catacombs, battles Nazis in biplane dogfights, and braves the firepower of unstoppable tanks.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Indiana Jones and his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood dodge booby-traps, fight Nazis and stare down snakes in their incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the autobiography of a brilliant young master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail. Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. passed himself off as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor all before his 21st birthday.
Publisher
Lucasfilm
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Indy, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India.
80) Minority report
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up.