Hans Zimmer
1) Backdraft
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1991, 1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Stephen McCaffrey and his younger brother Brian are two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire department. Stephen is so relentless that he drives Brian out of firefighting and into arson investigation. Assisting arson investigator Donald Rimgale, Brian becomes involved in a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Popular Chicago weatherman Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) has a shot at the big time when a national morning television show calls him for an audition. Professionally, Dave is on top of the world, but his personal life is in complete disarray. The harder he tries to hold on, the more he loses his grip. His painful divorce, his Pulitzer Prize-winning dad’s (Michael Caine) illness, and trouble with his kids have Dave poised on the knife’s edge between...
3) The rock
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
All of San Francisco is taken hostage when a vengeful General seizes control of Alcatraz Island, threatening to launch missiles loaded with deadly poison gas
4) Black rain
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006, c1989
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two New York cops are caught in a Yakuza gang war. They capture the leader of one of the gangs and are told to bring him to Japan.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes. This trauma led him to become obsessed with revenge. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with a ninja cult leader, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City. The City is now overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit...
7) King Arthur
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A reluctant leader, Arthur wishes only to leave Britain and return to the peace and stability of Rome. Before he can, one final mission leads him and his Knights of the Round Table - Lancelot, Galahad, Bors, Tristan, and Gawain - to the conclusion that when Rome is gone, Britain will need a leader to fill the void. Britain needs a king - someone not only to defend against the current threat of invading Saxons, but to lead the isle into the new age....
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Set in a mythic New York City and spanning more than a century, follow a story of miracles, crossed destinies, and the age-old battle between good and evil.
Language
English
Description
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovers that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian with whom Langdon had been scheduled to meet. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in...
10) Nine months
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Inc
Language
English
Description
The news that his girlfriend is expecting a baby sends Sam, an unflappable child psychologist, into a panic. Torn between advice given by a well-meaning but over-bearing couple and his confirmed bachelor buddy, Sam is in serious danger of losing his mind and his girlfriend.
11) Tears of the sun
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees also. Extended Cut contains over 24 minutes of never-before-seen footage.
12) Inception
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Dom Cobb is the best there is at extraction; stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind's vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage, but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible; inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue Erica. Harry, who has always had the world on a string,...
14) Interstellar
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
15) Sherlock Holmes
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
After finally catching serial killer and occult 'sorcerer' Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. After his execution, Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with Watson's new fiancée and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the determined detective must unravel the clues that will...
16) Black Hawk down
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets...
17) Spanglish
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
When Flor and her daughter, Christina come to the United States, Flor gets a job as a maid at the home of a successful chef John Clasky, his insecure wife Deborah, their two children, and Deborah's mother. Despite Flor's lack of an English, she does the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has no choice but to bring Christina along....
18) Frost/Nixon
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions...
19) Woman in gold
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
20) The ring
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After the viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve...