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(0)Gregory Peck
Publisher
Universal
Publication Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Publication Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A veteran of World War II, still haunted by memories of the war, gets a job in a public relations firm. He attracts the attention the firm's lonely CEO, and his career takes off. But his marriage suffers. Finally he must choose between career and family.
4) MacArthur
Publisher
Universal Studios
Publication Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A biographical drama of one of the most controversial public figures of his time, General Douglas MacArthur.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Publication Date
1968
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 mins) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A suspenseful manhunt saga. A relentless foe tracks Army scout Gregory Peck as he attempts to lead a woman (Eva Marie Saint) once held captive by Apaches to safety.
7) Moby Dick
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Publication Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Publisher
Universal
Publication Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
9) The yearling
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Publication Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy, Jody, living with his family on the Florida frontier shortly after the Civil War, must sacrifice his pet fawn for his family's survival.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Publication Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A western adventure spanning three generations, the breadth of a wild, unsettled country, and fifty of the most excitingly turbulent years of this nation's history.
11) Roman holiday
Publisher
Paramount
Publication Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
c2005, 1982
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (296 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a Vatican official, who, under threat of death from the Gestapo, saved prisoners of war and others from the German forces occupying Rome during World War II.
15) Only the valiant
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Cavalry officer volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
16) Cape fear
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 8 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen years after being imprisoned, vicious psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro) emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte).
17) The gunfighter
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Ringo is a notorious killer and the deadliest shot in the Old West. Though his appetite for bloodletting has waned, Jimmy is forced to stay on the run by young guns determined to shoot him down. After killing an upstart in self-defense, he escapes the boy's vengeful brothers to the nearby town of Cayenna. There, he hopes to convince his estranged wife to resume their life together. With more young men gunning for him, Ringo's fate lies in the...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
19) Great cinema
Publisher
TGG Direct
Publication Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (999 min.) : b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Snows of Kilimanjaro: Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Anna Karenina: A married woman finds true love in a man who isn't her husband.
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: A young man dreams, after reading Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, that he himself travels to King Arthur's court.
Tale of two cities: A British barrister falls in...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (431 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chisum: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war--www.imdb.com.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid--www.imdb.com.
The stalking moon: When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and...