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1) Baseball
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (ca. 23 hr.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is an epic overflowing with heroes and hopefuls, scoundrels and screwballs. It is a saga spanning the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the transformation of popular culture, and the unfolding of the national pastime. Here is the story of a nation at work and play. Experience it in ten thrilling "innings" from master storyteller and award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.
2) The patriot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 10 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Claire Spencer begins seeing ghostly images and hearing mysterious voices in her home, her husband Norman suspects it is just her imagination, until the images turn real. Together they uncover the truth.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Collector's ed., Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
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.
5) Jazz
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (ca. 19 hr.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Video [distributor
Pub. Date
2006], c1983
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot carbine action air rifle. But when gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale Santa-begging campaign. He encounters a slew of calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit.
7) Wall-E
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of a garbage-collecting robot that has been left behind to clean up the planet's mess. When a sleek search robot named EVE arrives to search for signs of life, Wall-E suddenly finds a new purpose in life. A determined Wall-E sets out to protect his new love, leading him on a fantastic journey across the universe.
8) Ghostbusters
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When ghosts go on a rampage, only three men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face the supreme challenge If you want your spirits raised, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (175 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and the brave members of the Fellowship as they continue their quest to destroy the Ring of Power. As darkness descends on Middle-earth, a strange creature named Gollum leads the heroes to the Black Gates of Mordor. The rest of Middle Earth prepares for a battle that will decide the fate of all.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and is turned into an old woman who is unable to tell anyone of her plight.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Late on Christmas Eve night, a boy who doubts the existence of Santa Claus lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa's sleigh. When he hears a steam engine's roar and whistle outside his window, the conductor invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives a gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ivan Reitman directed this romantic comedy-adventure that opens in New York where fast-paced magazine associate editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) and her boyfriend, Frank (David Schwimmer), leave for a week's vacation on a remote island. They've already been together for three years, so when Frank asks her to marry him, she says yes. For a one-day Tahiti photo shoot, Robin engages the services of South Pacific cargo pilot Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford)....
15) Persuasion
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (328 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Anne and Wentworth's "passion is thwarted by a scheming socialite. Eight years later, when Anne is considered an old maid and her once-rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wentworth returns. Will their second chance at love be ruined by the social conventions that destroyed it once? Or will the heart be persuaded by rules of its own?"--Container.
16) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
17) Contact
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films [distributor]
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (166 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the political life and times of the controversial author, linguist and radical philosopher, Noam Chomsky. Highlighting his analysis of media, Chomsky focuses on democratic societies where populations not disciplined by force are subject to more subtle forms of ideological control.
19) Mr. Deeds
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Small-town guy Longfellow Deeds goes to New York City to collect a $40 billion inheritance from a long lost uncle, even living in a palatial mansion with the services of an unusual valet. Things get better when he mets a beautiful woman. But money changes everything, and things aren't what they seem - his sweetie is actually a journalist feeding reports of his outrageous behavior to the press! Now, its up to Deeds to straighten everybody out.
20) 28 days later
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come.
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