Lee Tergesen
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 12
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Alex and Alice are hosting a New Year's Eve party for their closest friends at a remote cabin in the mountains. The other couples arrive in various states of discord, and the tensions are compounded when Alice's friends bring along a surprise guest--the very young and beautiful Helena. Alex and Alice try to keep the evening from spiraling out of control, and their own marriage from coming apart.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (451 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over pulic retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.
4) Monster
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in 2002 for the brutal murders of at least 6 men in Florida. Homeless most of her life, Wuornos subsisted by working as a prostitute. In Florida, down to her last five dollars and pondering suicide, she stopped into a bar for a beer where she meets Selby. One night, after a john attacks her, Aileen pulls a gun and kills the man. Aileen's loathing for the men who pay her for sex...
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Description
4 videodiscs ( 14 hr., 6 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Set in an altered America governed by a totalitarian political party that has established an annual twelve-hour period when all crime, including murder, is legal. Dive deep into the psyche of the Purgers with all full episodes from both riveting seasons. Experience what Daily Beast hails as "Darker, Freakier, Better" now" -- Container.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (approximately 467 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the bloodbath that ended the prison riot, life is returning to far from normal for those who survive in the experimental unit of OZ. The warden struggles to do the right thing for his prisoners, facing adversity at every turn. Safety at OZ is not an option.
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Its January 1977 and Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. Gary's youngest brother, Mikal, can help prevent the execution, but first he has to get to know the brother he barely remembers. Born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition, the brothers discover their shared past.
10) 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.
