Keith David
Publisher
PBS
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family members and rarely-seen photographs and film footage.
Publisher
PBS
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film will tell the story of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, best known as Leonardo da Vinci, a fifteenth century Italian polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, who left behind artistic works of staggering beauty and detailed sketches of futuristic contraptions of warfare and flight that today are marveled at for their technical ingenuity and foresight. From his birth out of wedlock to a notary and peasant woman and apprenticeship...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rookie priest arrives for his first day of training with a distinguished exorcist. As they dive deeper into hell on Earth, the lines between good and evil blur and their own demons appear.
4) Muhammad Ali
Publisher
PBS
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 7 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Muhammad Ali in and out of the boxing ring, covering his ties with the Nation of Islam, his political postions, including his refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam War, his role as a symbol of Black masculinity, and life after boxing.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of U.S. Navy SEALs is given a mission to destroy a North Korean missile site in order to avoid a possible nuclear strike. The mission is quickly aborted, leaving the four soldiers in enemy territory. In order for the four to survive, they must defeat the North Korean forces that threaten their lives, their allies and the entire free world.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this documentary traces the untold history of Black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre. Adapting Robin Means Coleman's seminal book, this will present the living and the dead, using new and archival interviews from scholars and creators; the voices who survived the genre's past trends, to those...
Publisher
PBS DVD
Publication Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the mid 1930s, as the Great Depression refuses to lift, Benny Goodman finds himself hailed as the "King of Swing" and becomes the first white bandleader to hire black musicians. He has a host of rivals, among them Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Glen Miller and Artie Shaw. Louis Armstrong heads a big band of his own, while Duke Ellington continues his independent course, but great black artists still can't eat or sleep in many of the...
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
9) Nope
Publisher
Universal
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
10) 21 bridges
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on whom he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all of the city's bridges to prevent any entry or exit from the iconic island.
Publisher
Disney
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mufasa, a cub lost and alone, meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of a group of misfits searching for their destiny.
12) Sneaks
Publisher
Universal
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sneaks follow the adventures of Ty, a misguided designer sneaker who doesn't know life outside the comforts of his velvet-lined shoe box. After his sister is stolen by a shady collector, Ty must venture into NYC to find and rescue her. In his adventure, Ty meets a rag-tag group of footwear friends from all walks of life who help him find the courage to step outside of his shoe box and find his 'sole-mate.'
14) The gateway
Publisher
Lionsgate
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Parker is a down on his luck social worker who finds himself in over his head when he tries to protect his client from her recently paroled husband. Can Parker save the family from the violent threat of the maniacal drug dealer and his crew, desperate to reclaim their priceless stash at any cost?
Publisher
Universal
Publication Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (627 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spike Lee is one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors of all time. Now five of his most provocative, thought-provoking films are available in one collection. From the breakout hit dramedy "Do the right thing" to the gritty, urban "Clockers," Lee peels away life's layers, exposing the ironies, brutalities, rhythms and prejudices of the naked city in this powerful collector's set.
Clockers (1995): a film about the violent world of drug...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Publication Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using CGI-enhanced visuals and dramatic reenactments, The History Channel brings the key battles of the Crusades to life. See rare locations, including a vast chain of Crusader castles and get a feel of what day-to-day life was like.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 900 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
18) Volcano
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publication Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Something unspeakably chilling is heating up The City of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city.
19) Horizon line
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former couple Sara and Jackson board a single-engine plane for a routine and casual flight to their friend's tropical island wedding. However, within minutes of takeoff, their pilot suffers a fatal heart attack, leaving them with no idea where they are, and no clue how to land the plane. With nothing but miles of ocean and sky in every direction, and a terrifying storm that's about to envelop them, Sara and Jackson have only one shot, and there's...
20) Against the dark
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Infected vampires suck the world dry of blood. A few of the last survivors are trapped in a hospital full of flesh feeders. Their only hope is Tao, a Katana master who, along with his squad of ex-military vigilantes, will now have to kill the vampires or be converted in a battle that will be the last stand to save humanity.

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