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Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Description
A scientist who specializes in weather tries to reach his son in New York after the world's weather goes out of control. The polar ice caps have melted, covering the earth in water, and then a freeze hits creating an ice age.
"If it's spectacle you crave at the movies, this is the place."--Boston Herald.
"...it's one superior disaster movie."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"It's the Weather Channel on steroids."--Washington Post.
2) Twister
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A tornado writhes across the sprawling family estate of soda pop and miniature golf magnate, Eugene Cleveland, but the family inside is oblivious to the weather because they are caught up in their own private whirlwind of off-beat opulence.
3) Titanic
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (195 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-nominated Kate Winslet light up the screen as Jack and Rose, the young lovers who find one another on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic, their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. From acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron comes a tale of forbidden love and courage in the face of disaster that...
4) On Fire
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Inspired by true events, an ordinary man lives a quiet life with his family until devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With moments ticking by, their only chance of survival lies in escaping the relentless fury of mother nature.
5) 13 Minutes
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just thirteen minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength...
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot.
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"Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film. Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, 1980. With a budget of $3.5 million it went on to make nearly $200 million in sales and has influenced a multitude of comedians on both sides of the camera. Surely You Can't Be Serious is the first-ever oral history of the making of Airplane! by the...
9) Supercell
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Baseball-size hail, violent winds, and churning tornadoes make supercells deadly, and when William Brody was a boy, his father a legendary storm-chaser was killed by one. Now, the family business belongs to Zane Rogers, a reckless tour operator who sees dollar signs where others see storm clouds. When his destiny arrives in the form of one of the most powerful storms on record, William leaves his mom and home behind to team up with his father's ex-partner,...
10) The burning sea
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
11) Titanic
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (194 min.) sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic, two passengers from different social strati fall in love.
12) Greenland
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (approximate running time 120 min.) : sound, color 12 cm + 1 videodisc (120 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison, and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary.
13) Only the brave
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.
14) Moonfall
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...
15) The finest hours
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
16) Twister
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
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