Emily Watson
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A father has a nurse take his newborn daughter to a home to be raised away from his wife and the baby's twin brother, upon learning that the baby girl has Down Syndrome.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
"Markus Zusak's international bestseller The Book Thief has been brought to the...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
"Markus Zusak's international bestseller The Book Thief has been brought to the...
4) War horse
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Wide screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
6) War horse
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against the sweeping canvas of World War I, this story begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and his young trainer Albert. When they are forced apart by war, we follow Joey's extraordinary journey as he changes and inspires the lives of all those he meets.
7) Everest
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
[DVD version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science.
9) Little boy
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
10) The Book thief
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD ; Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science.
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Blu-ray and DVD, Special edition, Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray Disc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD (104 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Local law enforcement gives Charlie Burns an option to save the life of his younger brother, but, in order for Mikey to live, Charlie will have to track and kill his psychotic older brother.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr. 4 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 ? in.
Language
English
Description
When astrophysicist Stephen Hawking finds out that his life will ultimately be cut short, he and his future wife go on a mission to learn more about time, while breaking new barriers in science and medicine along the way.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (approximately 321 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.