Taken

March 21, 2011
Taken
Call Number: DVD01178
by: Luc Besson; Robert Mark Kamen; Pierre Morel; Liam Neeson; Maggie Grace; Leland Orser; Jon Gries; David Warshofsky; Katie Cassidy; Holly Valance; Famke Janssen; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; EuropaCorp.; M6 films (Firm); Grive Productions (Firm); Studio Canal+.; TPS Star (Firm); Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©2009;
Notes:  Film Released 2008, (91 mins.) Includes both the theatrical version and unrated extended cut of the film.
Summary: Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan is on the phone with Kim, Albanian gang members break into the apartment where the girls are staying. Bryan has Kim give him a detailed description of what she sees and hears. He tells her she is about to be kidnapped. Bryan promises Kim that he will come and get her. He immediately travels to Paris to find Kim and Amanda. He has four days to find her and he uses his special skills and contacts to get her back and seek his revenge.
OCLC #: 320355349
Added: March 21, 2011
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Spy Game

March 20, 2011

Spy Game
Call Number: VHS01537
by: Douglas Wick; Marc Abraham; Michael Frost Beckner; David Arata; Tony Scott;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal, [2002], ©2001.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Running Time Aprox 126 min.
Summary: Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
OCLC #: 49030415
Added: March 20, 2011
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Soldier

Soldier
Call Number: VHS01532
by: Paul W.S. Anderson, Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee and Jason Isaacs;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©1998, 1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1998. Running Time Aprox 99 min.
Summary: After being defeated and left for dead by his genetically engineered replacements, Sergeant Todd must save a peaceful community from destruction by the same soldiers.
OCLC #: 679867765
Added: March 20, 2011
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Blue Steel

Blue Steel
Call Number: VHS01530
by:  Jamie Lee Curtis; Ron Silver;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1990,1989.
Notes: Originally released in 1989 (102 mins).
Summary:In Manhattan, a rookie cop shoots and kills an armed robber. She doesn’t know it, but an unidentified witness steals the assailant’s gun and begins a deadly game of pursuit, with the unsuspecting cop as the target of a madman’s obsession.
OCLC #: 22196305
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The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout
Call Number: VHS01528
by:  Bruce Willis; Damon Wayans; Tony Scott; Geffen Pictures.; Silver Pictures.; Warner Bros;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1991 (105 mins).
Summary:

“They walk the walk. They talk the talk. They play the game–a bone-crushing, bullets-flying game of life and death set against the world of pro football. When you throw the bomb in this game, it’s for keeps.”
OCLC #: 25719994
Added: March 20, 2011
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Hard Rain

Hard Rain
Call Number: VHS01517
by:  Mikael Salomon; Morgan Freeman; Christian Slater; Randy Quaid; Minnie Driver; Paramount Pictures;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Hollywood, CA : Paramount, ©1998].
Notes: Released in 1998(97 mins.) 
Summary:Set during a massive flood started by a dam accident in a small town, Christian Slater is an armored truck guard who gets robbed by Morgan Freeman. Slater gets away with all the money and hides it. In a panic, Slater tells the sheriff about the area he hid the money in and the sheriff locks him up. Now Slater has to get to the money and keep himself alive battling the sheriff, Morgan Freeman and his crew and the elements.
OCLC #: 39609174
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Red River

Red River
Call Number: VHS01515
by:  Howard Hawks; John Wayne; Montgomery Clift; Walter Brennan; Joanne Dru; Coleen Gray; John Ireland; Noah Beery; Harry Carey; Borden Chase; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Monterey Productions.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Culver City, CA] : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1997.
Notes: Released in 1948(133 mins.) Black and White. Nominated for one 1949 Academy Award.
Summary:With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
OCLC #: 37022554
Added: March 20, 2011
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The River Wild

The River Wild

Call Number: VHS01509, VHS01509 Copy 2

by:Meryl Streep; Kevin Bacon; David Strathairn; Curtis Hanson; Turman-Foster Company.; Universal Pictures (Firm);

Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Publisher: [Universal City, Calif.] : MCA Universal Home Video, 1995.
Notes: Released in 1994 (108 mins.);.
Summary: A woman’s skills and courage are put to the ultimate test when an encounter with three mysterious strangers turns her family’s white water rafting trip into a living hell.
OCLC #: 32152136

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Greatest Classic Films Collection – Western Adventures

March 18, 2011
Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection –Western Adventures
Call Number: DVD00894
by: Robert Redford; John Wayne; Ann-Margret; Rod Taylor; John Rubinstein; Tim McIntire; Dominic Frontiere; William Holden; Ernest Borgnine; Robert Ryan; Edmond O’Brien; Warren Oates; Warren Beatty; Julie Christie; Jerry Fielding; Edmund Naughton; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009];
Notes:  Films Released between 1969 and 1972, (711 mins.) Special features: Disc 1, Side A: “The saga of Jeremiah Johnson” vintage featurette; theatrical trailer. Side B: “Working with a Western legend” featurette; “The Wayne train” featurette; John Wayne movie trailer gallery. — Disc 2, Side A: Commentary by Peckinpah biographers/documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle; Sam Peckinpah movie trailer gallery. Side B: Commentary by director Robert Altman and producer David Foster; vintage featurette; theatrical trailer.
Title from container.
Films:
Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
 
The Train Robbers: Mrs. Lowe is a beautiful widow who wants to clear her family’s name by finding and returning the gold her husband stole. Three cowboy buddies sign on to help her. But where there’s gold, there’s sure to be trouble.
 
The Wild Bunch: After a botched robbery attempt in Texas, Pike Bishop and his gang head across the Rio Grande and into Mexico. They are pursued by bounty hunters hired to prevent the gang from robbing the rail depot. Bishop’s gang extend their time in Mexico when they meet a Mexican general who wants them to rob a U.S. train carrying arms.
 
McCabe & Mrs. Miller: John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after and offers to use her experience to help run the business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and mining deposits in the town attract a major corporation wants to buy out McCabe. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for Mrs. Miller, the town, and him.
 
OCLC #: 375581304
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – War Collection: Battlefront Asia

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – War Collection: Battlefront Europe
Call Number: DVD00891
by:Robert Taylor; John Wayne; Anthony Quinn; Cary Grant; John Garfield; Franz Waxman; Miklós Rózsa; Robin Moore; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Home Video (Firm
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009].
Notes: Films Released between 1943 and 1968, (486 mins. Black and White & Color);
Films:
Bataan: A U.S. Army sergeant fights a rear-guard action in the Philippine jungle in order to cover MacArthur’s retreat. His platoon of 13 soldier, including a few veterans, a couple of green recruits, and other assortments of soldiers and officer types, are sensable enough to follow the sergeant’s judgment. The group is whittled down through misadventure, disease, and skirmishes with the ever-advancing Japanese, till only a handful remain for a still-shattering last stand.
 
Back to Bataan: Colonel Joe Madden is an American soldier who stays behind to organize a ragtag guerrilla army in the forests and hills of the Philippines. At his side is Captain Andres Bonifacio, grandson of a legendary revolutionary martyred in the nation’s old war against Spanish colonialists. Joe, Andres, and their fearless irregulars sap the enemy’s resolve through hit-and-run missions. As time passes the locals wonder why America doesn’t return with troops and weapons.
 
Destination Tokyo: Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned Doolittle air raid on Tokyo. After getting the information they need, they face the harrowing task of getting out of Japan once their presence is detected.
 
The Green Berets: Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. Their first mission is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken over by the enemy. The second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese general.
Also see The Green Berets on DVD00897
 
OCLC #: 375827363
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – WWII Battlefront Europe

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – WWII Battlefront Europe
Call Number: DVD00895
by: Gabriel Katzka; Harold Loeb; Troy Kennedy Martin; Sidney Beckerman; Brian G Hutton; Kenneth Hyman; Nunnally Johnson; Lukas Heller; Robert Aldrich; Clint Eastwood; Telly Savalas; Don Rickles; Carroll O’Connor; Donald Sutherland; Lee Marvin; Ernest Borgnine; Charles Bronson; Jim Brown; John Cassavetes; Richard Jaeckel; George Kennedy; Trini Lopez; Ralph Meeker; Robert Ryan; Clint Walker; Robert Webber; E M Nathanson; Richard Burton; Mary Ure; Patrick Wymark; Michael Hordern, Sir.; Van Johnson; John Hodiak; Ricardo Montalbán; George Murphy; Marshall Thompson; Jerome Courtland; Don Taylor; Bruce Cowling; James Whitmore; Douglas Fowley; Leon Ames; Guy Anderson; Thomas E Breen; Denise Darcel; James Arness; Scotty Beckett; Brett King; Jerry Gershwin; Elliott Kastner; Alistair MacLean; Dore Schary; Robert Pirosh; William A Wellman; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2007.
Notes: Films Released between 1949 and 1970, (566 mins. Black and White & Color);
Summary: Kelly’s heroes: World War II soldiers learn of a fortune of gold bars that the Germans have stashed in enemy territory, and decide to steal the loot. The dirty dozen: Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to trust nothing, including the search-and-rescue order just issued to them. Battleground: The gripping tale of 101st Airborne troops resisting Hitler’s fierce, final counteroffensive at Bastogne. A feisty sergeant and a wisecracking private show a rugged and unsparing look at men in combat.
OCLC #: 422596010 & 704115891
Added: March 18, 2011
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Proof of Life

March 16, 2011
Proof of Life
Call Number: DVD00412
by: Taylor Hackford; Taylor Gilroy; Meg Ryan; Russell Crowe; David Morse; Pamela Reed; David Caruso; Danny Elfman; Castle Rock Entertainment (Firm); Bel-Air Entertainment (Firm); Anvil Films.; Warner Home Video (Firm)
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2001]
Notes: Originally released in 2000 (135 mins.);[Special Features: Behind the Scences Documentary; THe making of Proof of Life; Feature length audio commentary by Director taylor Hackford]
 Summary:Rebels in a politically volitile Latin American country have kidnapped Alice Bowman’s husband for ransom–$3 million. Terry Thorne is the hostage retrieval expert who becomes Alice’s only hope in navigating a high-stacks game where terrorists value money over life.
OCLC #: 47165653
Added: March 16, 2011
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A Bridge Too Far

March 15, 2011
A Bridge Too Far
Call Number: DVD00693
by: Richard Attenborough; Joseph E Levine; Richard P Levine; William Goldman; Dirk Bogarde; James Caan; Michael Caine; Sean Connery; Edward Fox; Elliott Gould; Gene Hackman; Anthony Hopkins; Hardy Krüger; Laurence Olivier; Ryan O’Neal; Robert Redford; Maximilian Schell; Liv Ullmann; Cornelius Ryan; United Artists Corporation.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment (1166), [2005], ©1977.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1977. Running Time Aprox 176 min. Based on the book by Cornelius Ryan.
Summary: An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.
OCLC #: 40842922
Added: March 15, 2011
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Bullitt

March 14, 2011
“Bullitt”
Call Number: DVD00702
by: Steve McQueen; Robert Vaughn; Jacqueline Bisset; Don Gordon; Robert Duvall; Simon Oakland; Norman Fell; Georg Stanford Brown; Alan Trustman; Harry Kleiner; Philip D’Antoni; Peter Yates; Lalo Schifrin; Robert L Pike; Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2010].
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.  Based on the novel, Mute witness by Robert L. Pike; Special features: Commentary by director Peter Yates; theatrical trailer. Running Time Aprox 114 min; Nominated for 2 Academy Awards (1969)
Summary: An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.
OCLC #: 694367777
Added: March 14, 2011
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Les vampires

March 4, 2011
Les vampires, or The Vampires
Call Number: VHS01505
by: Louis Feuillade; Fabrice Zagury; Musidora.; Jean Ayme; Edouard Mathé; Louis Leubas; Marcel Levesque; Moriss.; Gaumont (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French
New York, N. Y.] : Water Bearer Films, [199-].
Notes: Originally released 1915 (400 mins. Black & White);
Summary: The Vampires (Les Vampires) is the name of an arch-criminal gang of brilliant and bloodthirsty Parisian thieves led by the electrifying Irma Vep. The gang’s exploits include the use of kidnapping, poisonous gas, heavy artillery, sexual domination, and murder to gain physical and psychological power over Paris’ elite. Each episode features the crusading journalist Phillipe Guèrande and his comical side kick Mazamette, as they relentlessly track down the brazen and resourceful gang.
OCLC #: 46632825
Added: March 4, 2011
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The Blues Brothers

February 16, 2011
The Blues Brothers
Call Number: VHS01479
by: Dan Aykroyd; John Landis; John Belushi; James Brown; Cab Calloway; Ray Charles; Carrie Fisher; Aretha Franklin; Henry Gibson; Universal City Studios.; MCA Home Video (Firm); Blues Brothers Band.
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Home Video, ©1986.
Notes: Approx 133 min. Rated R. Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1980.
Summary: Comedy featuring musical performances by various blues artists in which an ex-convict and his friend raise money for an orphanage.
OCLC #: 26037428
Added: February 16, 2011
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Armageddon

February 9, 2011
Armageddon
Call Number: VHS01471
by : Bruce Willis; Billy Bob Thornton; Liv Tyler; Ben Affleck; Will Patton; Peter Stormare; Keith David; Michael Bay; Jonathan Hensleigh; Jeffrey Abrams; Touchstone Pictures.; Valhalla Motion Pictures.
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video, ©1998.
Notes: Approx 151 min.Rated PG-13. Originally produced as a motion picture.
Summary: Due to a shuttle’s unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA’s under-funded yet resourceful team train the world’s best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results.
OCLC #: 40277369
Added: February 9, 2011
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Chain Reaction

February 4, 2011
Chain Reaction
Call Number: VHS01454
by :  Keanu Reeves; Morgan Freeman; Rachel Weisz; Andrew Davis; Arne L Schmidt; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Zanuck Company.; Chicago Pacific Entertainment (Firm); Fox Video (Firm)
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:[Beverly Hills, Calif.] : FoxVideo, 1996.
Notes: Originally released as motion picture (107 min). Dolby. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Rated PG-13. “This video has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this screen.”
 Summary:A student machinist finds himself caught in a maze of secret government cover-ups, hi-tech espionage and murder after working on a groundbreaking scientific experiment. Eddie Kasalivich and Lily Sinclair are part of a team of scientists who have developed a revolutionary new source of energy. But no sooner have they finished celebrating their triumph, than their lab is destroyed and the head of their team killed. Named the main suspects, Eddie and Lily quickly realize their only hope lies with a powerful and mysterious bureaucrat who may or may not be on their side.
OCLC #:36102289
Added: February 4, 2011
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Transporter 3

February 3, 2011
Transporter 3
Call Number: DVD00548
by Luc Besson; Steve Chasman; Robert Mark Kamen; Olivier Megaton; Jason Statham; Natalya Rudakova; François Berléand; Robert Knepper; Jeroen Krabbé; David Atrakchi; Yann Sundberg; Eriq Ebouaney; EuropaCorp.; Current Entertainment (Firm); TF1 Films Production.; Grive Productions (Firm); Apipoulaï Productions.; Studio Canal+.; Cinécinéma (Firm); Lionsgate (Firm)
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Lionsgate, 2009.
Notes: Approx. 104 min. Rated PG-13. Based on the characters created by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen. Special feature: Special delivery, transporters in the real world featurette; audio commentary with director Olivier Megaton; behind the scenes bonus footage; making of transporter 3 featurette.
Summary: Valentina is the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official. Frank Martin is given an offer he cannot refuse and ends up putting on his driving gloves to deliver Valentina from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to deal with the thugs who want to intercept Valentina’s safe delivery. On top of that, he cannot let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
OCLC #:503329002
Added: February 3, 2011
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Inception

January 19, 2011
Inception
Call Number: DVD00939
by  Christopher Nolan; Emma Thomas; Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Ken Watanabe; Leonardo DiCaprio; Tom Hardy; Ellen Page; Marion Cotillard; Cillian Murphy; Tom Berenger; Michael Caine; Hans Zimmer; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Bros. Entertainment.; Legendary Pictures.; Syncopy (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2010.
Notes: Originally released in 2010 (148mins.); Special features include “The inception of Inception” featurette, and featurettes on the Japanese castle, architecture and freight train special effects
Summary: Dom Cobb is the best there is at extraction; stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind’s vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage, but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible; inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime.
OCLC #: 670212756
Added: January 19, 2011
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