Richard Attenborough
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Collector's edition; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1967.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A doctor discovers that he can understand what animals are saying. When the animals find out, his world is turned upside down.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soom fills everyone with the Christmas spirit, except for his boss, Doris Walker, who's raising her daugher to not believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece "A farewell To arms". A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
8) Elizabeth
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naïve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for the good of her country.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Collector's Edition ; Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 minutes): sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two teams head for Site B, an island where the dinosaurs have been left alone for four years. One is for research, and the other for exploitation. They are forced to team up to survive, despite their differences.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, hostile locals, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
11) Gandhi
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
1983. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all South African Indians. The government finally relents and recognizing rights for Indians. Gandhi goes back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent campaign of unprecedented...
12) Grey Owl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A frontier trapper adopts the ways of the wild, finds love among its people, and fights to protect the land he loves in this film based on the life of Archie Grey Owl.
13) Chaplin
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
14) A chorus line
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In preparation for a Broadway musical, a group of aspiring stage performers is put through their paces by a veteran stage director using some singular techniques.
15) Shadowlands
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.
16) The sand pebbles
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (183,196 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
Author
Language
English
Description
Oh! What a Lovely War features a stellar cast, and by fusing the surreal with the factual, and juxtaposing savagely funny satire with quiet sorrow, Richard Attenborough has created the oddest and most outstanding film ever made about the "game" that became World War One.
18) In Love and War
Author
Language
English
Description
In war they found each other, in each other they found love. Caught in the crossfire of World War I, love was the last thing on their minds. An unlikely romance bloomed between a Red Cross nurse and her heroic, young soldier patient. Ernest Hemingway found a love that would become the inspiration for his classic novel "A Farewell to Arms".
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 750 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Titles included: Jurassic Park; The Lost World: Jurassic Park; Jurassic Park III; Jurassic World; Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom; Jurassic World: Dominion.
20) Grey Owl
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.