Pete Postlethwaite
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
2 disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pete Postlethwaite (the only fictional character) stars as an archivist living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, who spends his days looking at old footage from the years leading up to 2015 when a cataclysmic climate change took place. As he sifts through the relics of our lost and misguided civilization, the archivist asks why Earth's inhabitants did nothing to reverse the effects of climate change while they still had the chance.
Publisher
Distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2010], 2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. (videodisc)
Language
English
Description
"The Age of Stupid imagines the world in 2055, devastated by the disastrous effects of climate change. Humanity's sole survivor takes refuge in an Arctic storage facility, compiling archive footage from 1950-2008 to discover what went wrong. Director Franny Armstrong presents a fascinating mosaic of people whose lives have been deeply affected by global warming, including a Hurricane Katrina survivor, an elderly French mountain guide, and an 8-year-old...
3) ÆonFlux
Language
English
Formats
Description
400 years in the future, after a virus kills off 99% of the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity - except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. A secret agent/assassin/warrior has been given the mission to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that put the mission, not to mention her...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, on a nearby island, dinosaurs have secretly survived and been allowed to roam free, but now there is a more ominous threat--a plot to capture and bring the dinosaurs to the mainland. John Hammond (Attenborough), sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition led by Ian Malcolm (Goldblum) to reach the island before the mercenary team gets there.
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World War II. On June 1, 1944, a United States bomber pilot crashes onto the Cave Hill just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He lives long enough to give a ring to a stranger and asks that he return it to his girlfriend. 50 years later, a young man searches for the woman to make good on a promise.
6) ÆonFlux
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen ed., Special Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
400 years in the future, after a virus kills off 99% of the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity - except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. A secret agent/assassin/warrior has been given the mission to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that put the mission, not to mention her...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, a young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, dinosaurs have secretly survived on a nearby island and roam free. Now there is a more ominous threat--a plan to capture and bring the dinosaurs to the mainland. John Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition to reach the island before the mercenary team gets there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their...
9) Dark water
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Unrated widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dahlia has started a new life. She is recently separated from her husband, has a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her estranged relationship behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. Then when her strained separation turns into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment seems to have a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the daring rescue of a spider, a young boy named James gains possession of some magic crocodile tongues. When James spills them in the garden, out sprouts an enormous peach! Climbing inside, he meets an astonishing cast of characters and embarks on a magical odyssey full of thrills and adventure.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (2 hr., 9 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four years after the failure of Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, it is revealed that there was another island ("Site B") on which dinosaurs were bred before being transported to Isla Nublar. Originally issued in 1997.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible identification...
13) Alien 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lt. Ripley is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's prison. This is the story of her fears that an Alien was aboard her craft and the realization that may compel her to try to destroy not only the creature but herself.
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loosely recreates the story of young Irish rocker McCormick and his younger brother, Ivan, who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their secondary school friends form U2 and become the biggest band in Ireland.
15) Dragonheart
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[p1998], c1996
Edition
Widescreen collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (videodisc) (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dennis Quaid stars with the voice of Academy Award winner Sean Connery as Draco in Cohen's heroic adventure that blazes with fantasy, humour, and the most amazing special effects since Jurassic Park. Long ago, when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, there lived a knight who would come face-to-face and heart-to-heart with the most remarkable creature that ever existed.
16) Dark water
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Theatrical full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dahlia has started a new life. She is recently separated from her husband, has a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her estranged relationship behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. Then when her strained separation turns into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment seems to have a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings...
Language
English
Description
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.
18) The town
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Blu-ray & DVD combo ultimate collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 blu-ray discs + 1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book + 1 map + 1 envelope
Language
English
Description
Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, whit his daughters,...
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Artist Meneer Chrome has come to a secluded country estate to create a masterpiece. Hired by wealthy patron Thomas Smithers, he plans to create an extravagent garden carved out of the wilderness. But Chrome's true aim is to bankrupt Smithers and allow the evil Fitzmaurice control over Smither's beautiful wife Juliana. But what Chrome doesn't count on is his passion for their beautiful, mysterious daughter.