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1) Sherpa
Publisher
Discovery
Pub. Date
2016, 2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every year, Western mountain climbers make news ascending Mount Everest. The compelling stories of the Sherpas, the Nepaleze guides who risk their lives to provide for their families, have remained a mystery, until now. This chronicles a fateful 2014 expedition and the tragic avalanche that spurred the Sherpas to make a stand for human rights and respect.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A daughter is killed in a car crash by a drunk driver and the family is outraged at all delays in bringing the case to trial. The judge is forced to rule for the defense and it appears the driver might escape punishment all together.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A drama about a family torn apart by a tragic accident in which a 12-year old boy kills his older brother. The film recounts the father's inability to meet his son's need for compassion and understanding. Ends on a note of hope as family finally begins to rebuild.
4) Collision
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a major accident leaves two dead, two critically wounded, and the surviving victims' lives changed forever, the father of one of the victims files a suit against the police department. Detective Inspector John Tolin must come to terms with his own past, and with his partner in the investigation if he has any hope of untangling the carnage, and understanding what caused the accident that threw so many lives together.
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A new look at the tragedy that took place in 2003 through interviews with astronauts and families of the deceased. Learn what went wrong and why the shuttle program didn't reach the goal for routine and safe space travel.
6) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
4K Ultra HD/[Blu-ray combo edition].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (2 hr., 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord's book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the Titanic's final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night To Remember is cinema's subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Classroom edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (11 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Timon and Pumbaa from Disney's The Lion King are Wild about Safety. With their Safety Smart checklist in hand, the two friends inspect a possible new home to make sure it is a safe place to live. Their investigation turns up plenty of safety problems, and in the end Timon and Pumbaa decide there's no place better than the home they're in now. Students in kindergarten through third grade join the lovable characters and discover the importance of always...
10) Deadly game
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A truckload of lethal U.S. Army chemicals spills in Police Chief Abel Marsh's town. People die. Land is contaminated. What a dreadful accident, if it is an accident. And if it isn't, just what the heck is going on?
11) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
12) Outland
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Standard version, widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A future cop probes some mysterious deaths among the workers in a mining colony on one of Jupiter's innermost moons.
13) Tin men
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two less-than-honest aluminum siding salesmen meet in a fender bender, but their bruised egos and quick tempers turn the minor accident into a major vendetta against each other's symbols of success--their prized Cadillacs.
14) The assistant
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That death sets into motion events that will change everyone's lives forever, including the young man's mother, Marie-France, who cannot recover from the trauma. Nine years later, Marie-France takes a job, as Thomas's assistant, without him knowing about her connection to his past.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Ali and his son depart Belgium for Antibes to reside with his sister and her husband. Ali's connection with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, intensifies when she endures a horrific accident.
16) Gravity
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An action-adventure yarn about a group of people in search of a missing plane with a cargo of $50,000,000. Barney and Gilbert are local hunters with an ancient helicopter who first find the submerged wreck of The Yankee Zephyr. Sally, who runs a local mission, is persuaded to invest in their search on the condition that she can tag along.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pompous lecturer is forced to spend the winter inside a prominent Ohio family's home due to injury, and proceeds to meddle with the lives of everyone in the household.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jo Jo has it all-Hollywood stardom, movie roles, platinum records. But the price he pays for fame and fortune s too great. He buckles under the pressures of success and suffers a life-threatening accident. Forced to examine his life, the film follows Jo Jo's compelling past through four decades from his upbringing in a brothel, to classic comedy performances in cellar nightclubs, to ultimate stardom as a rowdy, irreverent comic.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (964 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The residents of a small, peaceful Kansas town are suddenly plunged into chaos when a nuclear mushroom cloud appears on the horizon, leaving them completely isolated and wondering if they're the only Americans left alive. But in this time of crisis, as sensible people become paranoid, personal agendas take over and well-kept secrets threaten to be revealed, some people will find an inner strength they never knew they had and the most unlikely heroes...
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