Hans Zimmer
2) Man of steel
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
3) Spanglish
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Flor and her daughter, Christina come to the United States, Flor gets a job as a maid at the home of a successful chef John Clasky, his insecure wife Deborah, their two children, and Deborah's mother. Despite Flor's lack of an English, she does the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has no choice but to bring Christina along....
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes. This trauma led him to become obsessed with revenge. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with a ninja cult leader, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City. The City is now overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit...
6) The holiday
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. They both come upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives....
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray Disc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After finally catching serial killer and occult 'sorcerer' Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. After his execution, Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with Watson's new fiancâee and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the determined detective must unravel the clues that will...
Series
Pirates of the Caribbean volume film 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD ((150 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in).
Description
"Charming rogue pirate Captain Jack Sparrow ... [has] a blood debt to pay--he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghostly Ruler of the Ocean Depths--but ever-crafty Jack isn't about to go down without a fight"--Container.
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Formats
Description
Details the near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele. The troops were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The resulting action lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen. The battle led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters and to...
10) Planet Earth II
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (365 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the most ambitious landmark series allows us to experience the world from the viewpoint of the animals themselves. Traveling through jungles, deserts, mountains, islands, grasslands, and cities, this series explores the unique characteristics of Earth's most iconic habitats and the extraordinary ways animals survive within them. New technology has allowed individual stories to be captured in an unparalleled level of detail.
11) The creator
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war and mankind itself. Joshua and his team of elite operatives journey across enemy lines, into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory...
12) The ring
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After the viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve...
13) Gladiator
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray Discs (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Roman general refuses to transfer his loyalty to the new Emperor, Commodus. He becomes a slave and then a gladiator, fighting in the Roman Colosseum in defiance of the Emperor.
14) Pearl Harbor
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins...
15) The Dark Knight
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman raises the stakes on his war on crime and sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker. The Joker, whose eerie grin, laughter, and inhuman...
Series
Pirates of the Caribbean volume film 3
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow, who is trapped in Davy Jones' Locker, they must face their foes. Lord Cutler Beckett, now has control of Jones' heart and forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng, together. The Pirate Lords...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (86 min., 89 min., 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Madagascar: A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves on a ship heading for Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, they become shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar where they discover it really is a jungle out there!
Madagascar 2: The castaways are back together--and still lost! Stranded in the middle of Africa, they soon learn that all is not as it seems.
Madagascar...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Spider-Man. "Ordinary teenager Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is transformed into superhero Spider-Man after he's bitten by a super-spider. When the diabolical Green Goblin creates mayhem in Manhattan, the unstoppable Spider-Man faces the ultimate challenge: to squash his arch-enemy, to save New York City, and to win the heart of MJ (Kirsten Dunst), the girl next door."
Spider-Man 2. "Though Peter Parker tries to leave crime-fighting to live an ordinary...