Robert Redford
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
3) All is lost
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose their footing on ice and slide onto a road, where Judith and her horse are killed by a jackknifing truck. Grace has her right leg amputated, and the frightening incident leaves a lasting trauma not only on Grace but also on her horse, Pilgrim. Grace's mother, seeking Grace's recovery, feels there's a link between...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The romance and marriage of opposites-- the love that binds them together and the differences that tear them apart. A love story from college to Hollywood in the thirties, forties, and fifties
7) Sneakers
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A thriller about five computer hackers with questionable pasts and an equally questionable government job
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain America teams with the Black Widow and a new ally, the Falcon, in a fight for the future of mankind. Following the cataclysmic events in New York with the Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the entire world at risk. As the conspiracy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (color), map (color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves--but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought them back, with the first wolves arriving from Canada in 1995. This is the incredible true story of one of those wolves. Wolf 8 struggles at first--he is smaller than the other pups, and often bullied--but soon he bonds with an alpha female whose mate was shot. An unusually young alpha...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray videodiscs (266 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A League of their own (1992, 128 min.): Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up ballplayer whose big league days are over, is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League of 1943 and finds himself drawn back into the game by the hearts and heroics of his all-girl team.
The Natural (1984, 138 min.): Roy Hobbs, a promising young ballplayer, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The protagonist of this metaphysical fable is Rannulph Junah, Southern aristocrat and World War I hero. In a tournament in Savannah, he defeats two golf pros by following the teachings of his guru, Bagger Vance, a black mystic serving as his caddie
12) Spy game
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free Bishop from his Chinese captors.
13) The last castle
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the...
14) Pete's dragon
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, Mr. Meacham has told tales of the fierce dragon deep in the woods. To his daughter, Grace, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.
15) Jeremiah Johnson
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Robert Redford stars as a Western mountain man whowishes to live at peace with nature. But he becomes caught between theadvancing white men and the Indians, whose land they are taking. Wishingto remain apart from both civilizations, he becomes a feared andrespected legend for revenge he exacts after the massacre of his family.Based on the novel by Vardis Fisher.
16) Coyote waits
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Einar is a crusty old rancher who does what he can to hold onto his Wyoming ranch. It's been a struggle for years; his son was killed in a car crash, his wife left him, and his longtime friend and helper, Mitch was recently mauled by a bear. Now, Einar has to care for Mitch and help him recover. Jean and her daughter, Griff, have to leave Jean's current abusive boyfriend. The only place they can go is the ranch of Griff's grandfather, Einar, who only...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of two brothers, Norman and Paul Maclean, growing up in Montana. While Paul rebels against the stern nature of the boys' father Rev. Maclean, Norman pursues his dream of becoming a writer. However, despite the brothers' differences they are ultimately bonded by their mutual love of fly-fishing
19) The candidate
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
While Richard Nixon is on his way to re-election by a landslide, a young, honest, idealistic lawyer begins to learn the truth about running for office
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A CIA agent who is on the run from a mass slaughter in his research office suddenly finds himself the target of both his employers and the unknown killers of his associates