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1) Ali
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight champion title thus stripped from him entirely for political...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 420 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"That's Black Entertainment" is a fascinating three-part series that showcases the groundbreaking work of African American talent during the early years of Black cinema.
4) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hrs., 29 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
5) Run the race
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two desperate brothers sacrifice today for a better tomorrow. Reeling from his mother's death and his father's abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college scholarship and the brothers' ticket out of town. When a devastating injury puts Zach and his dreams on the sidelines, David laces up his track cleats to salvage their future and point Zach toward hope.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100, 85 min.) : sound, color, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Massacre: A take-no-prisoners cop hunts down the one man who escaped a bloody massacre in one of Seattle's underground Chinatown gambling houses.
South Bronx heroes: A young man, just released from prison and living with his sister in South Bronx, protects two children who were being exploited by one of the city's largest pornography rings, and helps bring the porn king to justice.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The widowed Ellen Brody now finds herself reliving the horrors of the past when a mammoth shark kills her son. Grief-stricken, she travels to the Bahamas to be with her other son, a marine biologist, and his family. There she meets and falls for a carefree airplane pilot. But just as she is putting her life back together, the nightmare of the past returns when her granddaughter is attacked by an all-too-familiar Great White. Determined to end the...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A promising football running back plans to make it to the NFL. At the pinnacle of his college football career, his dreams are shattered and he loses everything. But determination and a newly found inner strength enable him to triumph.
11) Hard Luck
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three converging storylines involving bootleggers, a serial killer, and drug dealers. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 504 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After her unprecedented victory over billionaire Arthur Frobisher, Patty Hewes has the legal world at her feet. Just as she is pondering her next move, Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty's past, throws her into a new legal challenge. What starts as a domestic murder case escalates into the highest reaches of government as Patty unearths a vast conspiracy. Ellen, at the same time, is on a mission to take Patty down. She's agreed to act as an informant...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (452 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two immortal Scots meet in modern New York after 400 years for a final confrontation which will leave only one alive; MacLeod and Ramirez return to save the Earth from its deteriorating ozone layer; John MacLeod, aka Connor MacLeod, battles the last of the immortals, Kane, in an effort to rid the world of his evil; Duncan MacLeod and Connor MacLeod team together to combat a fearsome band of Immortals; a band of immortals, led by the Highlander, set...