HBO Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Jason Cromwell (Albert Finney) is the highest-rated news anchor in the country. But when his latest investigation of a savings and loan association leads a bank president to suicide, questions start to arise. As evidence begins to suggest the man was wrongly accused, the media, and Cromwell in particular, appear to be more and more responsible for an innocent man's death."--Container.
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Nathan was the successful head of marketing for a start-up electric car company. A disagreement with his boss led Nathan to walk away and sell his stock. Soon after, the company became wildly successful, humiliating Nathan who fled into exile. A decade later, Nathan lives a simple life on Martha's Vineyard and goes by the alias 'Rolly DeVore'. But when his old boss shows up, Nathan/Rolly vows to drive him off the island before his true...
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and executive produced by Jerry Weintraub, this HBO Films drama recreates the glittering private world of Liberace, the flamboyant, phenomenally successful entertainer whose extravagant costumes, trademark candelabra, and elaborate stage shows made him the most bankable entertainer of his time.
4) Cheaters
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
5) Dirty war
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fanatical terrorists are planning to launch a nuclear attack with a homemade radioactive device in London. Local authorities are operating on high alert while government agents scour the city desperately searching for the source of the threat.
6) A dog year
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jon Katz is a writer at a mid-life crossroads who decides to adopt and train a high-strung border collie named Devon, only to discover it's he himself who has the real lessons to learn. Based on a true story.
7) Mosaic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 299 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story focuses on the brutal New Year's Eve disappearance of a high-profile resident of picturesque Summit, Utah, and the four-year effort of law-enforcement officers and civilians to arrive at the truth behind the crime.
8) Nightingale
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A war veteran is anticipating the arrival of an old friend and in the process starts to unravel.
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed before a live audience in New York City, Mike Tyson recounts his life's highs and lows. He opens up about such subjects as his troubled youth, landmark boxing career, time in prison, and family with the same charisma he showed in the ring.
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film is inspired by the final hours of Kurt Cobain. Blake is a brilliant but troubled musician whose success has left him in a lonely place. The film follows Blake through a handful of hours spent in his wooded home...a fugitive from his own life.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two years ago a Tsunami ravaged the coast of Tailand and hundreds of thousands lost their lives. This story follows a group of people whose lives are irrevocably transformed in the aftermath including: a young couple searching for their child; a Thai survivor who loses his family and tries to prevent developers from seizing the land his village is built on; an Englishwoman whose husband and son are missing; an ambitious reporter; a relief worker;...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"One has lost her marbles, another is dead. A third is in prison, a fourth the worse for liquor. A fifth has sworn off the devil's music and the sixth - Elizabeth - is daydreaming about reforming the band. As a teenager in the war years, Elizabeth was a sax-player with the Blond Bombshells, until a scandal blew the band apart. But now, some five decades later, encouraged by patrik, an old rogue from her youth, she sets off in search of the survivors...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leanne vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also end up missing. As police search for clues over the next three months, Leanne's husband and family soon learn that nobody is what they seem. Everyone is a suspect. In the end, five days prove critical in solving the case.
14) Good hair
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedian Chris Rock tackles the very personal issue of hair, and how attaining "good hair" can impact African American's activities, relationships, wallets, and a self-esteem. Engages in frank, funny conversations with haircare professionals, beautyshop and barbershop patrons, as well as featuring interviews with Dr. Maya Angelou, Nia Long, Ice-T, Raven Symone, and more.
15) Normal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roy and Irma are a devoted couple living a normal life in rural Illinois. At a party celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, Roy inexplicably blacks out. As he awakens, it is with the realization that his life must change forever. Roy confesses to Irma that he's a woman trapped in a man's body and that he wants a sex change. A surprise to his wife, turns out to be a shock to the church-going community. Now Roy must face his friends, co-workers...
16) Elephant
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A realistic drama that takes the viewer inside an American high school on one single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. It observes the comings and goings of its characters from a safe distance. The experiences of each student range from friendly and innocent to traumatic and deeply disturbing.
17) Grey Gardens
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 352 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying...
20) Wit
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.