Rod Steiger
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This program explores the history of imperial China through its symbolic heart: Beijing, the "Forbidden City." The program presents a visually stunning tour of the hub of the world's oldest bureaucracy and center for all Chinese government, a city containing schools, temples, theaters, exquisite gardens, and 240 acres of palaces. Period paintings, etchings, archival material and readings from 1,000 years of Imperial diaries complement this unprecedented...
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 41 pages booklet.
Language
English
Description
An ex-fighter gets caught up in the waterfront gangs after the death of his brother.
7) End of days
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a burned-out former New York City cop named Jericho is assigned to security detail for a mysterious and foreboding stranger, Jericho thwarts an assassination attempt. During the ensuing investigation, he and his parner save the life of a beautiful and terrified woman, whose destiny involves death, the devil and the fate of mankind.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mass murderer of women, who is also a master of disguise, has a running battle with a police detective. The killer gets his kicks by phoning in clues to the detective. All of New York trembles as the sixth strangling is reported and the man with the makeup kit stalks still another victim ... the detective's girlfriend.
Series
Language
English
Description
"Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town."--Container.
12) The longest day
Series
Physical Description
1 videodisc (178 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min. ; 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shiloh: An abused runaway dog follows a young boy home. The owner wants the dog back but the boy wants to keep him.
Shiloh season is the sequel to Shiloh. Marty risks everything to turn an enemy into a friend, but it's Shiloh that teaches Marty about kindness and forgiveness when he heroically saves the life of the man who mistreated him.
14) Carpool
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Miller, a career-first ad executive whose priorities need realignment, and five children on their way to school, are taken hostage by happy-go-luckless Franklin Laszlo, whose bungled attempt to get cash for his floundering carnival puts him on the lam and in the driver's seat of Miller's minivan.
15) F.I.S.T
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the rise and fall of union leader Johnny Kovak from his beginnings as an idealistic blue collar worker to head of the Federation of Inter-State Truckers.
16) Doctor Zhivago
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
17) Shiloh
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
18) The pawnbroker
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sol Nazerman is a WWII Nazi deathcamp survivor. Now, he runs a pawnshop and takes refuge in misery and a bitter condemnation of humanity.
19) Shiloh 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Shiloh, Marty risks everything to turn an enemy into a friend, but it's Shiloh that teaches Marty about kindness and forgiveness when he heroically saves the life of the man who mistreated him.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brigadier General Billy Mitchell has devoted his life to the military, and his career to developing a superior air defense force for the United States. When top army brass fail to recognize the importance of air power following its crucial role in winning WWI, Mitchell initiates a campaign to change their minds--a campaign that will ultimately lead to his demotion and the most controversial military trial in U.S. history.
