Judd Hirsch
Language
English
Description
Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 590 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He is still trying to maintain order over his off-the-wall collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage," they continue to form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous taxi dispatcher for a New York City taxi company. He tries to maintain order over the varied collection of strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage," they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
5) Uncut gems
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Blu-ray disc. ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. At first thought to be meteors, the United States military suspect that a number of enormous alien spacecraft are on a collision course with Earth. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (544 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most baffling criminal cases from two very distinctive perspectives....
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When antiwar activists Arthur and Annie Pope blew up a napalm lab in 1971, they accidentally blinded a janitor working late. Since then, the Popes and their children have stayed together by staying a step ahead of the law, running from state to state, job to job, assumed identity to assumed identity. But now elder son Danny is 17. He's ready to stop running from a past he had nothing to do with, ready to start making his own future.
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (491 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This sitcom followed the life of a group of cabbies in New York. The group, employees of the Sunshine Cab Company, was made up a motley crew including Bobby, a frustrated actor, Tony, a struggling boxer, Louie, the tyranical dispatcher, and Reverend Jim.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Actor Robert Powell, star of the TV miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth," is on a journey across the Holy Land to discover the real story of the role he played decades ago. Guided by the Gospels and the latest archaeological and historical research, Powell will travel to Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt. With the help of scholars and theologians, he will examine Jesus's lost adolescent years, the start and growth of his ministry, and his death and believed...
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1037 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Don Eppes couldn't be more different from his younger brother, Charlie, a brilliant math professor at a California university. Don deals in hard facts and evidence, Charlie thrives in a world of mathematical probability and equations. Don and Charlie often combine their areas of expertise to solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles.
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 12 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Don Eppes recruits his mathematically gifted brother, Charlie, to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. Don is assisted by fellow agents Megan Reeves, David Sinclair, and Colby Granger, while Charlie finds insight and encouragement from a co-worker, Dr. Larry Fleinhardt, and Amita Ramanujan, Charlie's former grad student.
15) Independence Day
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spaceships appear and wonder turns to terror as they attack cities all over the Earth.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (581 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim might not be firing on all cylinders, but his amazing psychic abilities are; Elaine blows a gasket when she catches Louie spying on her in the garage bathroon; Tony, meanwhile, appears back on the fast track to boxing fame; Bobby hits town with some big career news; Alex has outrageous run-ins with both his estranged father and his ex-wife; and Latka may actually marry Simka if his suave alter-ego Vic Ferrari doesn't accidentally get in the way....
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (983 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama about an FBI agent who recruits his mathematical-genius brother to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from a very distinctive perspective. Inspired by actual events, the series depicts how the confluence of police work and mathematics provides unexpected revelations and answers to the most perplexing criminal questions.
19) Tower heist
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.
20) Ordinary people
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.