Robert Burke
4) Safe
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for.
5) RoboCop 3
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
RoboCop, sworn to protect the public, joins forces with a band of urban freedom fighters battling to save their neighborhood from the conglomerate that plans to demolish it to build a city of the future.
6) Simple men
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers go after their father, a former all-star shortstop and mad-bomber anarchist, when he breaks out of jail, and discover on their trek through deepest, darkest Long Island that sometimes even the oddest things really are just what they seem.
7) Thinner
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-seller, Stephen King's Thinner stars Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna in a story of supernatural terror and countdown to the ultimate payback. A 109-year old gypsy, hell-bent on revenge, exacts a curse so shocking it compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out and a torture so bizarre and powerful, even death seems a more likely option.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Connie and Carla are best friends who want to make a name for themselves in the musical theater. One night, Connie and Carla witness a low-level Mafiosi hit. The gals are seen by the shooters, and they hit the road in fear for their lives. Connie and Carla end up in Los Angeles, needing new identities. After watching a drag review, they decide to pose as drag queens. Their act is an immediate hit, and soon they're the toast of L.A.'s gay community....
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beatrice works at a sleazy tabloid TV news show, run by a producer eager for something different. The producer sends her camera crew to Iceland in search of something new and unusual, but the show's crew doesn't survive their first encounter with the local monster, and Beatrice is sent to find out what happened to them. She ends up taking on the reclusive monster and takes him from the remote island and brings him into the media spotlight in New York...
10) Speak
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melinda, a smart and spirited high school freshman, retreats into self-imposed silence after she is raped one night at a party. Eventually through her work in art class, she begins to reach out to others.
11) True story
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After journalist Michael Finkel is fired from The New York Times for embellishing a story, he learns that accused murderer Christian Longo has been claiming to be him. Hoping this story will save his career, Finkel begins interviewing Longo in prison. But soon, the men find themselves in an eerie game of cat and mouse in this psychological drama.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita...
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of LTC John Paul Vann (Paxton) and his work as a military and civilian advisor in Vietnam over a ten year period (1962-72) until his death in an accidental helicopter crash. As a military advisor, Vann attempted to fight corruption in the Vietnamese army, recognizing the need to build trust among the Vietnamese peasantry. When his recommendations were ignored by the U.S. military, he exposed falsified battle reports and other deceptions...
14) Paris
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross...
15) RoboCop 3
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In this second sequel to Robocop, the mechanical humanoid opposes the evil designs of his creators who have gone corrupt and are trying to take over all real estate in Detroit, kicking the poorer citizens out of their homes and turning them out into the streets."--All Movie Guide.
16) Tombstone
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (325 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed him."--Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide.
Robocop...
18) Generation kill
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
A dramatization based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
275 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From his beginnings as a crotchety, anti-heroic scientist in 1963 to his current place in British pop culture as the mad and dangerous monster-fighting saviour of the universe, the titular character of Doctor Who has metamorphosed in his 50 years on television. And yet the questions about him remain the same: Who is he? Why does he act the way he does? What motivates him to fight evil across space and time?"--Amazon.com.
