Gregory Peck
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his wife is killed during the Blitz, neurotic and suicidal Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his own death. Fellow airmen see him as hostile, incommunicative and prone to nightmares and anxiety attacks. But when Forrester's plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions to safety. As they cross the Burmese desert,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson, The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as a haunted New York executive who defies convention and decides his family is more important than his career in this post-war melodrama.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (46 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Powers of ten illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901 : after 45 years of working examines the Office of Charles and Ray Eames as it is...
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An easy-going, unpolished sportswriter and a sophisticated clothing designer meet, fall in love and marry while both are visiting California. When they return to their homes in New York, they decide to live in her plush apartment, and their differences soon emerge.
6) Moby Dick
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Description
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Ahab sails the seven seas seeking revenge on Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
7) Moby Dick
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 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.
8) On the beach
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A southern sheriff, intending to bring a man in for moonshining, instead falls for his young daughter and makes sure the feds don't arrest the man. With a deputy's murder and his marriage over, will the sheriff still get his girl?
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Toccata for toy trains is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. House : after five years of living illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. Lucia chase vignette follows a sister chasing her brother through the Eames house and vicinity. Kaleidoscope jazz chair is a kaleidoscope tour of the Eames office and their multicolored chairs. The Black ships illustrates...
11) Old Gringo
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set during the Mexican Revolution, a frustrated spinster, a retired journalist, and a fiery young general are inexplicably drawn together as they face love, death and war.
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Design Q & A: One of the most concise, witty statements about design ever put on film. IBM Mathematics Peep Shows: Brilliant, fast-paced explorations of intriguing mathematical concepts. SX-70: Lively presentation of a revolutionary Land camera. Copernicus: Rich, beautifully photographed film evoking the astronomer's universe. Fiberglass Chairs: Exciting look at the initial design and production of these famous chairs. Goods: Discussion of "the new...
13) The gunfighter
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A key forerunner of the new breed of dark, brooding westerns that would cast a shadow over America's frontier folklore, this subversive psychological saga sounds a death knell for the myth of the outlaw hero. In one of his most morally complex roles, Gregory Peck stars as Jimmy Ringo, an infamous gunslinger looking to hang up his holsters and start a new life, but whose reputation draws him inexorably into a cycle of violence and revenge from which...
Series
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.
15) Pork Chop Hill
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 12 in.
Language
English
Description
Lt. Joe Clemons (Peck) has been given the order: take Pork Chop Hill. If it's taken by the Chinese, U.S. negotiators at the Panmunjom peace conference would lose face with their Communist adversaries-- an unthinkable outcome. And so, Clemons leads his troops into combat, to fight for an objective that they know to be strategically pointless. But they also know that an order is an order and that they must take Pork Chop Hill, or die trying, so that...
16) Roman holiday
Series
Language
English
Description
A modern-day 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.
17) The omen
Language
English
Description
A chilling suspense mystery, this riveting tale of the supernatural explores the Biblical prophecy of the warning which will foretell the coming of Armageddon. The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil will begin with the birth of the son of Satan -- in human form.
18) Spellbound
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A psychologist falls for a suspect in a murder, which she tries to solve by unlocking the clues hidden in his mind.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A band of Nazi leaders, escaped from postwar Germany, scheme to return to power. Their plans to dominate the world are based on a bizarre biological experiment undertaken by Josef Mengele: to clone Hitler.
20) Mackenna's gold
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Arizona Territory of the 1870's, Marshal Sam Mackenna is the only living person who knows the tortuous route to the fabulous "Cañon del Oro". During his journey, Mackenna is captured by Colorado, a brutal Mexican bandit who has long sought his death. But, if Mackenna is to lead the cutthroat gang to the lost treasure, Colorado must keep him alive.