Carolyn Jones
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This documentary weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illness, with the stories of the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for and how that hope evolves. DEFINING HOPE focuses on palliative care, end of life issues, hospice care and what 'quality of life' really means. It offers a hopeful message about bringing power back to the patient...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
THE AMERICAN NURSE is a heart-warming film that explores some of the biggest issues facing America - aging, war, poverty, prisons - through the work and lives of nurses. It is an examination of real people that will change how we think about nurses and how we wrestle with the challenges of healing America. THE AMERICAN NURSE is an important contribution to America's ongoing conversation about what it means to care. The film follows the paths of five...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
All of our country’s biggest public health challenges—from COVID-19 to the opioid crisis to gun violence to behavioral health and lack of insurance—collide in emergency departments. Nearly half of all medical care in the U.S. is delivered in E.D.s and nurses are on the frontlines of that care, addressing our physical and emotional needs and sending us back out into the world. IN CASE OF EMERGENCY is a documentary that follows emergency nurses...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1956.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Something evil has taken possession of the small town of Santa Mira, California. Hysterical people accuse their loved ones of being emotionless impostors; of not being themselves. At first, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) tries to convince them they’re wrong…but they’re not. Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Earth, replicating the villagers in giant seed “pods” and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a terrifying...
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (536 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brace yourself for more macabre mayhem and monstrous madness as television's creepiest clan wreaks hilarious havoc on their unsuspecting victims. This time, love is in the air, and it seems that everyone--Pugsley, Ophelia, Uncle Fester, and even Lurch--is being bitten by the bug. Gomez, meanwhile, is burglarizing houses in his sleep, and it's curtains for the new neighbors when Morticia tries her hand at decorating.
Publisher
Republic Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a terrifying race, for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (561 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Contains the first season of the television program "The Addams Family" in which the wealthy, eccentric Addamses enjoy everything macabre and spooky.
13) House of wax
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Classic horror movie about an insane sculptor whose hands are ruined when an arsonist destroys his wax museum. Unable to use his hands, the sculptor comes up with a new way of restocking his House of Wax.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about Tony Manetta, a small-time Miami Beach hotel operator barely able to make the payments on his own modest inn, who dreams of one day opening a million dollar resort. In addition to bill collectors, Tony must contend with his beatnik girlfriend and his well-meaning but conservative brother and sister-in-law. Through thick and thin, however, one thing remains constant: the love between Tony and his young son who admires him even if he isn't...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ; letterbox ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (328 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. +
Language
English
Description
A western adventure spanning three generations, the breadth of a wild, unsettled country, and fifty of the most excitingly turbulent years of this nation's history.
16) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Thirtieth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
1977, ©2011
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen and fullscreen versions.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (489 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Singin' in the rain: With fame, fortune and fans galore, silent screen idol Don Lockwood thought he had it all. But one look at aspiring actress Kathy Seldon, and he knew exactly what he was missing. Now he's swinging from lampposts, singing in the raindrops and ready for love. With talking pictures on the rise, Don sets out to make musical with the woman of his dreams, but one thing stands in his way, his jealous co-star who wants Don - and the leading...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 1003 min. doublesided) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock presents several dramatized short stories. The stories are invariably surprising, often containing elements of horror, comedy, suspense, and the supernatural. All 39 episodes of the first season of the Emmy Award-winning murder-mystery series.