Ely Landau
Pub. Date
1970.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, King: a filmed record ... Montgomery to Memphis is a monumental documentary that follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed with scenes of other high-profile supporters and opponents of the cause, punctuated by heartfelt testimonials...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (181 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970. King: A Filmed Record is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Schell) rules a financial empire from his Manhattan penthouse. He is given to passionate and capricious ravings on a variety of subjects. His growing paranoia, dismissed by those close to him, is confirmed when he is kidnapped by Israeli agents and brought to trial in Israel for crimes against humanity. Is he Arthur Goldman or is he Adolph Dorf, former SS colonel who headed a Nazi concentration camp?...
4) Hopscotch
Series
Criterion collection volume 163
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having too much fun!
5) Rhinoceros
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceri. These are not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who have been victims of "rhinoceritis." Or is it something else entirely?
6) Galileo
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest....
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (239 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the faded, Vermeer-like light of Harry Hope's 1912 New York skid row bar, a rag tag group of fallen men await the annual arrival of their friend Hickey. But now Hickey is sober, and he wants his drunken friends to do the same.
8) Butley
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Butley, a professor at a London University, finds out that his wife wants a divorce, his boyfriend is leaving him and his untalented colleague is getting a book published all in one day.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sol Nazerman is a survivor of a WWII Nazi death camp where his wife, parents and children were murdered. His soul robbed of hope, he takes refuge in misery and a bitter condemnation of humanity while managing a Harlem pawnshop. Working with Sol in the pawn shop is an ambitious man named Ortiz, whose own views and aspirations differ greatly from those of his embittered boss.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shanty towns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom. But Kumalo's unwavering faith is put to the test when he finds Absalom in jail facing a capital murder charge. Courage, dignity and sacrifice fall prey to the whirlwind of racist hypocrisy and hollow justice in Absalom's trial. Absalom's reunion and reconciliation with this father, his jailhouse marriage to his...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Tyrone is an aging actor and an alcoholic miser who has spent a lifetime treading on the spirit of his dope-addicted wife, Mary. His oldest son Jamie is a troublemaking alcoholic who is envious of the writing talent of his sickly younger brother, Edmund. The three Tyrone men will spend a hellish night together when they sit about drunkenly while Mary hallucinates about her younger and happier days.
12) Luther
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Martin Luther and his eventual condemnation of the Catholic Church and incitement of the Protestant reformation.
14) The pawnbroker
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sol Nazerman is a WWII Nazi deathcamp survivor. Now, he runs a pawnshop and takes refuge in misery and a bitter condemnation of humanity.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Description
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life is a Sunday in the park for Aurelia, a dotty Parisian countess who looks as if she stepped out of a Georges Seurat painting. But sooner or later, Aurelia had to find out about the so-called sane world and its student unrest, the bomb, even its greedy scheme to transform the City of Light into a forest of oil derricks. If this is sanity, she'll do anything to stop it! In this spirited and timelier than ever satire from Jean Giradoux's famed play....
