Napoleon

March 20, 2012
Napoleon
Call Number: DVD01063
by: Christian Clavier; Isabella Rossellini; Gérard Depardieu; John Malkovich; Jean-Pierre Guerin; Didier Decoin; Yves Simoneau; Alliance Atlantis in Association with France 2/RAI/Telecino/Kirchmedia/MA Films/ A & E Networks. [Remstar] ©2004.
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Alliance Atlantis in Association with France 2/RAI/Telecino/Kirchmedia/MA Films/ A & E Networks. [Remstar]  ©2004.
Notes: Originally released as a television mini-series in 2002. Disc 4 includes bonus material: Napoleon: Behind the scences; Napoleon and Wellington; Napoleon Bonaparte: The glory of France. Special features: behind the scenes featurette; bonus programs; cast biographies and filmographies; interactive menus; scene selections. Nominated for 7 Emmys in 2003 (4 discs 6 hours 4 min.).
Summary: Follow young Bonaparte’s ascent from a simple Corsican soldier to the most powerful man on earth, and go beyond the battlefield to examine the political intrigues, personal struggles, and complicated romances that mark Napoleon’s rise and fall.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: March 20, 2012
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Raiders of the Lost Ark

March 16, 2012
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Call Number: VHS01697
by: George Lucas; Steven Spielberg; Harrison Ford; Karen Allen; Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  [Hollywood, CA] : Paramount Home Video, 1981.
Notes: Paramount Home Video 1376. Videocassette release of the 1981 motion picture by Lucasfilm Ltd. 115 min.
Summary: The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.
OCLC #: 11617636
Added: March 16, 2012
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Seven Years in Tibet

March 2, 2012
Seven Years in Tibet
Call Number: VHS01679
by: Jean-Jacques Annaud; John H Williams; Iain Smith; Brad Pitt; David Thewlis; B D Wong; Mako.; Danny Denzongpa; Yo-Yo Ma; Heinrich Harrer; Tri-Star Pictures.; Mandalay Entertainment (Firm); Repérage (Firm); Vanguard Films (Los Angeles, Calif.); Applecross (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1998.
Notes: Based on the book by Henrich Harrer. Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Reformatted to fit TV screen.
Summary: Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian national and a Nazi sympathizer. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. There, Heinrich’s life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the young Dalai Lama.
OCLC #:38902068
Added: March 2, 2012
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Hanover Street

February 14, 2012
Hanover Street
Call Number: DVD00903
by: Harrison Ford; Lesley-Anne Down; Christopher Plummer; Alec McCowen; Richard Masur; Michael Sacks; Paul N Lazarus; Peter Hyams; Columbia Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001]
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Special Features include: director’s commentary, bonus trailers, interactive menus, scene selection. Total running time 109 mins.
Summary: During the Second World War, an American Pilot stationed in England meets a young British nurse during an air raid on London. The two instantly fall in love, despite the fact that the young Nurse is already married; a secret she keeps hidden from her American lover. After being shot down behind enemy lines, while being assigned to ferry a British agent into France, the American pilot realizes that his secret agent cargo is in fact his lover’s husband, and that the two must now work together in order to survive.
OCLC #:48272364
Added: February 14, 2012
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My One and Only

My One and Only
Call Number: DVD01061
by: Richard Loncraine; Charlie Peters; Norton Herrick; Aaron Ryder; Renée Zellweger; Logan Lerman; Kevin Bacon; Troy Garity; David Koechner; Raygun Productions.; Herrick Entertainment (Firm); Merv Griffin Entertainment (Firm).
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:   [S.l.] : Herrick Entertainment, ©2009.
Notes: Special features include: Behind the scenes of “My one and only” featurette ; The making of “My one and only” featurette. Total running time 108 mins.
Summary: After finding her husband with another woman, Anne Deveraux begins a cross-country trek with her two sons, hoping to find a new life and a new husband.
OCLC #:757764808
Added: February 14, 2012
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The Great Escape

February 7, 2012
The Great Escape
Call Number: DVD00882
by: Steve McQueen; James Garner; Richard Attenborough; James Donald; Charles Bronson; Donald Pleasence; James Coburn; Paul Brickhill; John Sturges; Elmer Bernstein; James Clavell; W R Burnett; Ferris Webster; Mirisch Company.; United Artists Corporation.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, ©2005.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. Based on the book by Paul Brickhill. Nominated for one Oscar and one Golden Globe in 1989. Running time 172 min.
Summary: Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist type prisoners of war are all put in an ‘escape proof’ camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the film is played for comedy as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use boats and trains and planes to get out of occupied Europe.
OCLC #: 70657588
Added: February 7, 2012
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The Man with the Golden Gun

December 3, 2011
The Man with the Golden Gun
Call Number: VHS01582
by: Roger Moore; Ian Fleming; Danjaq S.A.; United Artists Corporation.; CBS Fox Video.
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich. : CBS/FOX Video, 1983.
Notes: Released in 1974 as a motion picture by Danjaq S.A./United Artists. Based on the novel of the same title by Ian Fleming. Total Running Time: 125 min.
Summary: Scaramanga is a hit-man who charges a million dollars per job. He becomes linked to the death of a scientist working on a powerful solar cell, and James Bond is called in to investigate. As he tracks down Scaramanga, he realises that he is highly respected by the killer, but will this prove to be an advantage in the final showdown?
OCLC #: 9283857
Added: December 3, 2011
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Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Call Number: VHS01580
by: Jason Robards; Martin Balsam; Joseph Cotten; E G Marshall; James Whitmore; Sō Yamamura; Tatsuya Mihashi; Takahiro Tamura; Eljiro Tono; Koreya Senda; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1998.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. Nominated for 5 Oscars in 1971. Total Running Time: 144 min.
Summary: In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbour. American intelligence is breaking the Japanese diplomatic messages but few high-ups are prepared to believe that an attack is likely, let alone where or how it might come.
OCLC #: 39344813
Added: December 3, 2011
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Call Number: VHS01577
by: Terry Gilliam; John Neville; Eric Idle; Columbia Pictures Industries.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1989.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1988 motion picture. Nominated for 4 1989 Oscars. Total Running Time: 126 min.
Summary: The fantastic tale of an 18th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures.
OCLC #: 20836890
Added: December 3, 2011
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The 13th Warrior

November 30, 2011
The 13th Warrior
Call Number: VHS01569
by: John McTiernan; Antonio Banderas; Diane Venora; Omar Sharif; Michael Crichton; Touchstone Pictures.; Buena Vista Home Video (Firm); Touchstone Home Video (Firm);
 Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Video, Inc., ©2000.
Notes: Originally released as motion picture in 1999 (running time 102 mins.). Based on the book “Eaters of the Dead” by Michael Crichton;
Summary: In AD 922, an important emissary who is banished from his homeland. The nomadic outcast comes across a band of Norse warriors who coerce him into joining them when they are summoned to fight mysterious creatures legendary for consuming every living thing in their path. Eventually surrounded by the frightening and ferocious foe, Ibn must conquer his personal fears and help battle the illusive invaders–who emerge out of the shroud of fog in the black of the night.
OCLC #: 43314199
Added: November 30, 2011
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Live and Let Die

November 10, 2011
Live And Let Die
Call Number: VHS01546
by:  Albert R Broccoli; Harry Saltzman; Tom Mankiewicz; Guy Hamilton; Roger Moore; Yaphet Kotto; Jane Seymour; Ian Fleming; Danjaq, LLC.; United Artists Corporation.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGA/UA Home Video, 1988, ©1973.
Notes: 1 videocassette (total running time: 123 min.) Based on the book of the same title by Ian Fleming.
Videocassette release of the 1973 motion picture released by United Artists. Nominated for one Oscar.
Summary: On this assignment, James Bond arrives in the U.S. to match wits and fists with a gang of black super villains who are about to engineer a mammoth Caribbean drug deal.
OCLC #: 19748655
Added: November 10, 2011
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Call Number: VHS01541
by:  Peter Hunt; Ian Fleming; Richard Maibaum; John Barry; Michael Reed; George Lazenby; Diana Rigg; Telly Savalas; Ilse Steppat; Gabriele Ferzetti; Bernard Horsfall; George Baker; Bernard Lee; Lois Maxwell; Desmond Llewelyn; Catherine Schell
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Danjao, 1969.
Notes: 1 videocassette (total running time: 140 min.) Based on the novel by Ian Fleming. Released December 18, 1969. Nominated for one Golden Globe.
Summary: James Bond woos a mob boss’s daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld’s allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world.
OCLC #: 745273399
Added: November 10, 2011
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven

November 9, 2011
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Call Number: VHS01538
by: Elmer Bernstein; Vincent M Fennelly; Herman Hoffman; George Kennedy; Paul Wendkos; James Whitmore; Mirisch Production Company.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1989.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. A sequel to Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” and John Sturges’s “The Magnificent Seven”. Total Running Time 106 mins.
Summary: A strong, silent gunfighter leads a team of the most deadly men in the West– experts with gun, knife, rope and explosives– to free a Mexican leader from a prison known as “The rat hole.”
OCLC #: 19454993
Added: November 9, 2011
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The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights
Call Number: VHS01536
by: Albert R Broccoli; Michael G Wilson; Richard Maibaum; John Glen; Timothy Dalton; Maryam D’Abo; Joe Don Baker; Art Malik; Jeroen Krabbé; Ian Fleming; Eon Productions (Firm); Danjaq (Firm); United Artists Corporation.; CBS Fox Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Livonia, Mich. : CBS/Fox Video, [1988].
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1987. Total Running Time 130 mins.
Summary: James Bond 007’s mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond’s mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond.
OCLC #: 17655291
Added: November 9, 2011
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Serenity

April 21, 2011
Serenity – Collectors Edition
Call Number: DVD01138
by Jack N Green; Christopher Buchanan; David V Lester; Alisa Tager; Barry Mendel; Joss Whedon; Nathan Fillion; Gina Torres; Alan Tudyk; Morena Baccarin; Adam Baldwin; Jewel Staite; Sean Maher; Summer Glau; Ron Glass; David Krumholtz; Chiwetel Ejiofor; Michael Hitchcock; Sarah Paulson; Yan Feldman; Rafael Feldman; David Newman; Universal Pictures (Firm); Mutant Enemy Inc.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures, ©2007.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2005 (187 min). Special features: Disc 1. Optional commentary with Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, and Ron Glass; Optional commentary with Joss Whedon; Deleted scenes; Extended scenes; Outtakes; Take a walk on Serenity; The Green Clan; Joss Whedon introduction; We’ll have a fruity oaty good time! Disc 2. A filmmaker’s journey; Future history, the story of Earth that was; Re-lighting the Firefly; What’s in a Firefly?; Session 416; Sci-Fi inside: Serenity.
Summary: River Tam and her brother Simon are hiding out from the totalitarian government that experimented with River’s brain aboard a space-freighter. Captained by a down on his luck soldier, the crew of Serenity must take jobs, whether they are legal or not, while trying to avoid the Alliance, and keeping the Tams safe. Then things get out of control and the true extent of River’s powers becomes known. At the same time, the Alliance sends a new Operative to make sure that what River knows doesn’t get out.
OCLC #: 170806030
Added: April 21, 2011
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X-Men

April 20, 2011
X-Men
Call Number: DVD01211
by Bryan Singer; Lauren Shuler-Donner; Ralph Winter; Tom DeSanto; David Hayter; Patrick Stewart; Hugh Jackman; Ian McKellen; Halle Berry; Famke Janssen; James Marsden; Bruce Davison; Rebecca Romijn; Ray Park; Anna Paquin; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Marvel Entertainment Group.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2000.
Notes: Widescreen format. Based on the comic book series of the same name. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000 (104 min.). Includes 10 min. of never-before-seen footage. Special features include: Interviews with Bryan Singer ; Hugh Jackman screen test ; still gallery ; animatics ; trailers ; etc.
Summary: Two mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
OCLC #: 46267183
Added: April 20, 2011
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Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.
Call Number: DVD01047
by Darla K Anderson; Pete Docter; David Silverman; Lee Unkrich; John Goodman; Billy Crystal; Mary Gibbs; Steve Buscemi; James Coburn; Jennifer Tilly; Bob Peterson; John Ratzenberger; Frank Oz; Randy Newman; Pixar (Firm); Walt Disney Pictures.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001 (92 min.). Includes 2 videodiscs: “THX.” Special features: Disc 1: audio commentary by the filmmakers (Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter) for widescreen version only. Disc 2: Animated shorts (including Mike’s new car, For the birds and music video of song “If I didn’t have you”), interactive DVD-ROM game, outtakes, Monsters, Inc. orientation, tour of Pixar studios, behind-the-scenes documentaries (storyboard, monsters, design, animation, music, sound design), premiere, trailers and TV spots, international inserts, multi-language clip reel, toys, and poster gallery. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 2002.
Summary: Monsters generate their city’s power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley finds his world disrupted.
OCLC #: 49391168
Added: April 20, 2011
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Doctor Dolittle

March 24, 2011

Doctor Dolittle
Call Number: VHS01577
by: Rex Harrison; Samantha Eggar; Anthony Newley; Richard Fleischer; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©2001.
Notes: Running Time Approx 152 min. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Title from cassette label. “This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit your screen”–Container. Nominated for 2 Acedemy Awards in 1968.
Summary: Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth.
OCLC #:47924610
Added: March 24, 2011
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Red River

March 20, 2011
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
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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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