DESCRIPTIVE DVDs

Descriptive DVDs provide descriptive narration of key visual elements, making television programs, feature films, and other visual media accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. Key visual elements are those that visually impaired viewers would ordinarily miss, such as actions, costumes, gestures, facial expressions and scene changes. Inserted within the natural pauses in dialogue, audio descriptions of important visual details help to engage blind viewers with the story.

DVD CATEGORIES

The DVDs on this list are separated into various genres, such as: Drama, Comedy, and Television Series. The DVD number is located above the title of the item. Use the DVD number to place requests.

LOAN PROCEDURES

These are the Regional Library Guidelines for borrowing descriptive DVDs.

1. You or your organization must be an active, registered user of the Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library.
2. Up to three descriptive DVDs at a time are loaned to each patron. The loan period for each DVD is three weeks.
3. Remember that some DVDs may contain strong language, violence, or sexual content. If the DVD has been rated by the Motion Picture Association, it is noted in the catalog.
4. You must provide your own DVD player. Descriptive DVDs will play on any DVD player. No special equipment is needed to hear the descriptions.
5. The DVDs are mailed to you as "Free Matter," and may be returned to the Regional Library by turning over the label on the mailing case (just as you do with books). If there is a problem with the DVD, check the "Damaged" box on the mailing card.

Drama
Includes Action, Westerns, Horror and War stories

DVD00366
Against All Hope
Lubricated by liquor, Cecil Moe's life is swirling slowly down the drain. An unhappy childhood, worsened by the premature deaths of his mother and father, leads him to the Navy where he takes his first drink to dull the pain of loss and loneliness. Cecil manages to keep his drinking problem under control long enough to become a husband and father. But it gets progressively worse, until it threatens his marriage, his family and his very life. Try as he might he can't seem to escape from the bottle. Finally self-loathing becomes the catalyst for one more effort, his last chance. And this time it just has to work.

DVD00098
Affair
When handsome and charming Marcus Simon meets the lovely Courtney Patterson, he falls head over heels in love with her. A polio survivor, shy and introspective, Courtney does her best to discourage him and then to resist his advances. Marcus, however, isn't willing to take no for an answer. And Courtney soon succumbs to his ardor and her own deep yearning to love and be loved. But the stresses of living together combined with differences in their temperaments stretch the relationship to the limit in this sensitive drama.

DVD00264
Algiers
Pepe Le Moko, a thief who escaped from France with a fortune in jewels, has for two years lived in, and virtually ruled, the mazelike, Casbah, "native quarter" of Algiers. A French official insists that he be captured, but sly Inspector Slimane knows he need only bide his time. The suave Pepe increasingly regards his stronghold as also his prison, especially when he meets beautiful Parisian visitor Gaby, who reminds him of the boulevards to which he dare not return...and arouses the mad jealousy of Ines, his Algerian mistress.

DVD00420
All the Kind Strangers
When a storm strands him in rural Tennessee Jimmy Wheeler takes shelter with six kids who live in the backwoods with a pack of dogs. In the morning, his car has disappeared and he discovers that he and Carol Ann and another stranded traveler are prisoners. The kids call them Ma and Pa but keep them locked up and closely guarded by the dogs. When Jimmy learns that the other men before him have failed their auditions as Pa and mysteriously disappeared into the swamp, he realizes he faces the severest test of his life.

DVD00239
The Amazing Adventure
Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives Ernest a prescription that he doesn't think Ernest can fill: Ernest must earn his own living for one year using none of his current wealth.

DVD00263
American Empire
Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, and battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.

DVD00443
Anatomy of an Illness
The true story of Norman Cousins, the editor of Saturday Review, and his struggle with a mysterious ailment.

DVD00278
And Then There Were None
Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr. U. N. Own, but he isn't on the island. At dinner a record is played, by that all the people are accused of murder, suddenly the first of them is dead, then the next... It seems to be that one of them is the murderer Mr. U. N. Own, but the person in suspect is always the person who is murdered next. At last only two people seem to be left.

DVD00149
Anna Karenina
In the 1870s in Russia, Anna flaunts convention by having an adulterous affair with Count Vronsky. Preferring the allure of romance to her stifling marriage with Alexis Karenin, Anna's happiness disintegrates as she loses her peace of mind.

DVD00049
Anne of Green Gables
The classic story of a mischievous girl--an orphan with fiery red hair, a quick temper, and a vivid imagination. The orphanage sends her to a shy Nova Scotia farmer and his no-nonsense sister even though the family had requested a boy. But the longer Anne stays with them, the less they can remember life without her.

DVD00097
Antony and Cleopatra
Beautiful Cleopatra tempts Marc Antony away from ruling Rome's Eastern Empire. With her backing, he battles his rival, Octavius Caesar, only to be abandoned in defeat. Yet his passion for her is so strong that, hearing of her death, he kills himself. Cleopatra is alive but prefers death to becoming a trophy of Rome.

DVD00126
Art of War
Framed for the murder of the Chinese ambassador to the UN, secret agent Neal Shaw is pursued by the FBI and by a ruthless squad of Triad killers. Each step he takes draws him deeper into a web of treachery and deceit in this explosive, fast-paced, high-octane thriller.

DVD00238
The Astral Factor
With nothing but time to kill, Roger Sands succeeds in mastering the astral factor - and the power to become invisible at will. Then the convicted serial strangler escapes from the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and sets out to settle a few scores. Responsibility for catching him falls to LAPD Lieutenant Barrett. Only there's not much Barrett can do except follow the string of victims. How do you track and stop a ruthless killer when you can't even see him?

DVD00184
A Beachcombers Christmas
Dave McGonigal, who runs Molly's Reach, hatches a plan for a charity celebrity old-timers hockey game in time for Christmas. But the former con artist soon learns he himself has been conned by some shifty characters who leave him with bogus auction items and nobody players. With the help of Sergeant Constable, the whole town and some real hockey pros, Dave just might have a few more tricks up his sleeve to save the day - and Christmas.

DVD00133
Becket
An English king comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.

DVD00052
Becky Sharp
Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Thackeray's classic novel "Vanity Fair." Becky and Amelia are at school together, but Becky is from a low class family. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this seemingly auspicious beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and ruining the lives of other "loved ones."

DVD00016
Bertie and Elizabeth: The Story of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
This is the portrayal of the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward VIII gave up the throne.

DVD00330
The Big Cat
After the death of his mother in 1933, young Danny Turner leaves Philadelphia for her birthplace in the rugged mountains of Utah. He arrives to find her family and friends suffering from a prolonged drought, the Great Depression, and the depredations of a cougar that preys on their dwindling livestock. He soon gets drawn into the middle of an old but bitter feud between his mother's former lover and her brother. But it's the cougar that presents Danny with his greatest challenge in this low-key, warmhearted, coming-of-age drama.

DVD00329
The Big Combo
Police Lt. Diamond is told to close surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown. It's costing the department too much money. Diamond makes on last attempt against Brown by using his secret weapon, Brown's girlfriend, Susan Lowell.

DVD00233
The Bigamist
Harry Graham and his lovely wife Eve have made their San Francisco business a financial success - but at a cost to their childless marriage. And loneliness leads Harry into a friendship with Phyllis, a free-spirited young woman in Los Angeles who takes a shine to him. The friendship flowers into more; and when Phyllis gets pregnant, Harry insists on marrying her. His two worlds begin to collide when Eve begs him to adopt a child, and the conscientious adoption agent investigates his personal life.

DVD00232
Black Water Gold
While collecting specimens off the Florida Keys, scuba diver Ray Sandage witnesses the murder of two men. Then, nearby, he finds artifacts from a sunken Spanish galleon, the Hidalgo. Travelling to the Bahamas, he persuades marine archaeologist Chris Perdeger and Mexican historian Alejandro Zayas to join him in an expedition to locate the lost ship. They soon realize they have competition: amateur treasure hunter and millionaire Lyle Fawcett, the man behind the murders, is also after the Hidalgo. And, as Ray and his partners discover, Fawcett will stop at nothing to win.

DVD00142
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Black-bearded Ned Teach seeks the treasure held by Sir Henry Morgan, the reformed pirate, now governor of Jamaica, who seeks to rid the seas of his former pirate comrades.

DVD00144
Blood on the Sun
In pre-WWII Tokyo, an American journalist tries to expose a menacing plot by Japanese militarists for world domination.

DVD00150
Bollywood/Hollywood
Rich, young, handsome Rahul is desperate to stop his mother and grandmother from interfering with his romantic life. But they threaten to call off his sister's wedding unless he finds himself a nice Indian girl, so he hires an escort, Sue, to pose as his fiancee.

DVD00092
Borderline
When a spunky Los Angeles policewoman and a tough U.S. customs agent are each sent undercover to Mexico to ferret out a ruthless drug lord, neither is aware they've been assigned the same task. As both agents gather evidence, each becomes more certain the other is guilty. But as they flee toward the Borderline with the drug lord in hot pursuit, neither can deny their mutual attraction. If they survive and make it home, will they give in to their budding romance? Or will each insist on turning the other in?

DVD00686
Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Born prematurely with a defective immune system, Todd Lubitch is confined to an incubator and then, when he survives, to a sterile, transparent enclosure. Isolated from the outside world where even a breath of air could carry lethal germs or viruses, the boy in the plastic bubble, grows up surprisingly well adjusted. As a bright, warm-hearted teenager, Todd (John Travolta) takes high school classes via closed circuit TV. He also falls in love with Gina, the girl next door. Then a visit from astronaut Buzz Aldrin inspires him to create a "space suit" so he can attend school in person. But as his love for Gina grows, so does his desire to escape from his plastic shell.

DVD00229
Brotherhood of the Wolf
For two years a terrifying beast has stalked the mountains of Gevaudan province in southwestern France leaving a string of savagely mutilated corpses. In 1766, King Louis XV sends the Chevalier Grégoire de Fronsac and his blood-brother Mani, a Mohawk shaman and warrior, to hunt down the elusive creature. As the dreadful slaughter of women and children continues, their efforts to unravel the mystery surrounding the bloodthirsty beast earn Gregoire and Mani the enmity of the local nobility and a fierce band of Gypsies. Based on the true story of the Beast of Gevaudan, this cult classic contains violence and nudity.

DVD00093
Bullet to Beijing
After Harry Palmer is forced into early retirement from the British Secret Service, a mysterious Russian known only as Alex flies him to St. Petersburg. Avoiding assassination by a Chechen gang, Harry agrees to find a lethal biochemical agent that has been stolen from Alex. Traveling to Beijing on the Trans-Siberian Railway, he quickly finds himself at the center of a labyrinthine plot involving multiple double-crosses, the North Koreans, and an arms-for-heroin deal.

DVD00163
The Butterfly Affair
When gorgeous dancer Popsy Pop rips off her lover Marcoux for a bag of big diamonds, Marcoux recruits Police Inspector Sylvian to hunt her down. They find Popsy in a voodoo camp and their madcap adventure gets even stranger.

DVD00162
Cain's Cutthroats
With the Civil War over, Confederate Captain Justice Cain, the leader of a behind-enemy-lines band of marauders has retired to a peaceful homesteader's life with a new wife and their young son. When the lawless survivors of his old command show up on his doorstep and ask him to lead them again, he refuses. So Cain's cutthroats shoot him. Then, for good measure, they murder his wife and son and burn down his homestead. But Cain survives. Obsessed with revenge, he teams up with a bounty-hunting preacher to track the killers down, one-by-one, and exact a dreadful vengeance.

DVD00194
The Cape Town Affair
South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of enemy agents.

DVD00394
Captain Scarface
Sam Whilton has all the luck - and none of it good. He's on the run from a jealous husband who happens to be one of the most powerful men in the small South American country in which Sam finds himself stranded. Then chance hands him a dead man's passport and he uses it to escape on a freighter bound for the Panama Canal. The ship, he soon discovers, is on an audacious espionage mission to blow up the Canal. Suspected by the cunning captain and closely watched by the crew, Sam searches desperately for a way to thwart the deadly scheme.

DVD00165
The Capture
When oil rig foreman Lin Vanner shoots a drifter he believes stole his company's payroll, he's hailed as a hero. But the payroll's never found; and Lin begins to wonder if he's killed the wrong man. His doubts lead him to the drifter's widow and he hires on to help her run the small ranch she's struggling to hold on to. They soon fall in love. But Lin realizes they can never be happy until he uncovers the real story behind the payroll theft. When he does, the terrible consequences turn him into a hunted fugitive.

DVD00128
Charade
A Parisian finds her husband murdered. Four of his cronies pursue her, believing she knows the location of $250,000 in gold. She is helped by a handsome stranger-but is he a hero, spy, or murderer?

DVD00131
Call it Murder
A jury foreman is tormented by his family, his wife, the public, and himself after sentencing a woman to death in this suspenseful psychodrama.

DVD00132
Cast a Dark Shadow
Charming Edward "Teddy" Baer kills his wealthy older wife only to find himself left out of her will. His next wealthy widow proves more of a match then he bargained for in this suspenseful and surprising thriller.

DVD00078
Century Hotel
On the eve of the year 2000, a young woman rents a hotel room for an important rendezvous. But hers is not the only stay with a story. Room 720 has many tales to tell from the hotel's hundred-year-old history: the tragic events that occurred on the hotel's opening night, a reunion of friends and lovers after WWII, its use as a hideaway for a reclusive rock star, and later as a prostitute dive. In all, seven surprising stories from a different era of the hotel's checkered past are woven together in this powerful drama.

DVD00237
Chino
A half-breed with a lifetime of scars, Chino ekes out a Spartan but satisfying existence raising horses bred from a magnificent half-tamed stallion. Then love comes into his lonely but peaceful life. First he takes in a homeless boy. Then he falls deeply in love with the beautiful, English-bred sister of the local land baron. When the land baron learns they plan to marry, he forbids the wedding and has Chino bullwhipped almost to death. Chino recovers, only to find he's been fenced off from his horses.

DVD00079
Christmas Wife
Not long a widower, John Tanner finds himself facing his first Christmas alone when the traditional visit from his son and grandkids doesn't work out. Desperate for companionship, he turns to a dating service that matches him up with Iris, a shy but appealing woman in her 50s. Iris agrees to spend the holiday with him - as long as he doesn't ask questions about her personal life. The two enjoy each other's company more than either of them expected. But Iris has a secret she needs to share.

DVD00050
Climax: The Lou Gehrig Story
After playing in an unprecedented 2,000 consecutive baseball games, legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig goes into an apparent slump. When it worsens, his wife Elly insists on a check-up-and the doctors find a rare nerve disease (later named after Gehrig).

DVD00235
Cockfighter
Fed up with his well-deserved reputation as a loudmouth loser, Frank Mansfield resolves not to speak another word until he earns his strange sport's highest honor: Cockfighter of the Year. But, true to form, he soon loses his car, trailer and girl to his arch rival on an ill-considered bet. Refusing to give up, Frank acquires White Lightning; a first-rate bird he hopes will take him to the top. Together they hit the road for a series of bloody fights that earn them an invitation to the sport's most prestigious tournament and a showdown shot at the title Frank covets. Violence, nudity and coarse language.

DVD00129
Confidence
When grifter Jake Vig mistakenly rips off L.A. mobster Winston King, he's given a choice: run a major con on a mark selected by the King or get killed. Jake goes for the con, with the help of an alluring shill.

DVD00139
The Cooler
As the unluckiest man in Vegas, Bernie Lootz is employed by an old-school casino manager to jinx the winning streaks of any high rollers. When Bernie falls in love with a new cocktail waitress it looks like his luck is finally changing. But looks sure can be deceiving.

DVD00146
Cry of the Innocent
When an ex-Green Beret discovers the plane crash that killed his family was not an accident, he vows to find who was responsible and avenge them.

DVD00433
Curse of Demon Mountain
In the last days of the Civil War, a Confederate soldier dying from a bayonet wound tells his captain, Wishbone Cutter, about a treasure trove of diamonds hidden in a mountain cave deep in the back woods of Arkansas. Later, Cutter sets out to find the trove with his native companion Moon. Along the way they're obliged to take in a young woman, the sole survivor of a mysterious massacre. As they approach their destination, Moon becomes convinced the mountain is guarded by a vengeful evil spirit. But Cutter scoffs and leads them on - into the deadliest danger. Violence.

DVD00147
Cyrano de Bergerac
Few men cut as wide a swath through Paris in the 1760's as a poet whose remarkable nose is exceeded only by his reputation as a duelist. In one of love's great ironies, the poet is persuaded to help a handsome fellow guardsman to woo Roxanne, the ravishing beauty he himself secretly adores but fears to approach. Will Roxanne realize the man whose words have won her heart is really Cyrano de Bergerac?

DVD00095
D.O.A.
When small-town accountant Frank Bigelow takes a week's vacation in San Francisco, a night on the town leaves him feeling more than a little queasy. He soon finds out that someone has given him a deadly poison. With his time rapidly running out, Frank must discover who poisoned him and why, before he's D.O.A. Violent turns and lethal surprises abound in this suspense-filled story of a man racing against the clock to unmask his own murderer.

DVD00188
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Life can be pretty odd and unpredictable, to say the least, for the girls working at the Blue Iguana, a strip joint in the San Fernando Valley north of L.A. So they do their best to support each other through the trials, tribulations and traumas that come their way. Exotic Jasmine writes poetry. Ditzy Angel wants a child, while Jo the dominatrix is pregnant. Jessie's hung up on an abusive lover, and Stormy is haunted by a man from her past. About the only thing tougher than getting through the night is getting through the day. Nudity and coarse language.

DVD00086
David and Goliath
This Biblical epic has it all; dancing girls, battle scenes, Orson Welles as King Saul and the classic brawl between David and Goliath.

DVD00051
David Copperfield
Now a successful author, David Copperfield returns to England to find himself confronted by haunting memories, memories he must come to terms with before he can move on in life.

DVD00234
Deadly Impact
After devising a means of electronically milking slot machines, a young computer whiz and his girlfriend make a clandestine killing in the casinos of Las Vegas. But their success is noticed by two hoods, who trail the couple back to Phoenix. When the youth refuses to cough up the cash, they kill him. But the girl gets away. The case is assigned to Detective Ryan. When the hoods elude him a the end of an ultra-violent car chase, the hard-nosed homicide cop teams up with an ex-Vietnam chopper jockey and takes off after the killer in an awesome, thrill-packed helicopter pursuit. Coarse language and nudity.

DVD00442
The Death of Richie
In a typical American small town the Werner family appears to be happy and thriving. George works as a traveling spice salesman, while his wife, Carol, runs their home and looks after their youngster Russell and his teenage brother Richie. But the happy family is doomed when Richie's drug use gets out of control. Hanging with the wrong crowd and spurred on by growing insecurity and alienation, Richie sinks deeper into a drug induced depression. As his parents try to cope with this destructive behavior and mood swings, Richie becomes increasingly violent until his life reaches a tragic end. A cautionary tale based on a true story.

DVD00210
Death Rage
When a New York gangster is killed on a visit to Naples, his mob sends assassin Peter Marciani to exact revenge. His target is a capo who also was fingered for the murder of Peter's brother. But getting to him means getting past a Neapolitan policeman, and the cost is high.

DVD00437
Decameron Nights
Turmoil in 14th Century Florence obliges Boccaccio, a handsome young philanderer and teller of amorous tales, to seek refuge at the country villa of the lovely Fiametta, the one woman he truly loves. Fearing for the virtue of the beautiful damsels in her charge, Fiametta wants to refuse him. But the damsels persuade her to let him stay - for as long as Boccaccio and his amorous tales continue to amuse them. Boccaccio, ever obliging, rises to the occasion. Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan play several parts in this delightful, tongue-in-cheek histoire d'amour.

DVD00436
Detour
Down on his luck, Al Richards decides to hitchhike to the west coast to join his sweetheart. When he catches a ride from a big spender who's going all the way to L.A., he figures his luck has turned. But the man dies on him. Fearing he'll be charged with murder, Al hides the body and keeps the man's wallet and car. Then he makes his second mistake: he gives a lift to an attractive but predatory young woman. She soon worms the story out of him, and then coerces him into a web of deceit and greed from which there's no escape. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, this inventive crime drama became a noir classic.

DVD00280
Dinner at the Ritz
When a Parisian banker is murdered, his daughter vows to expose his killers.

DVD00279
Dishonored Lady
Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine by day and a lively party girl by night. Unfortunately, the pressures of her job, including kowtowing to a hefty advertiser, and her bad luck with men are driving her to a breakdown. She seeks the help of a psychiatrist, and under his orders, quits her job and moves into a smaller flat under a new identity. She becomes interested in painting and a handsome neighbor. He soon finds out about her past when an ex-suitor implicates her in a murder.

DVD00191
Dogville - Two Volumes
Beautiful Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With encouragement from Tom, the self-appointed town spokesman, the tiny community agrees to hide her, and in return, Grace consents to work for them. But when the authorities begin searching for her, the alarmed townspeople demand more in exchange for the risk of harboring a fugitive, and Grace learns the hard way that in Dogville, goodness is a relative term. But Grace has a dangerous secret, one that will make Dogville's citizens sorry they took advantage of her.

DVD00428
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Thanks to his ailing mentor, crusty old Dr. Gillespie, young Dr. Kildare is offered an important position at a new medical facility - with a salary increase that will finally allow him to propose to the love of his life, beautiful Nurse Mary Lamont. But, true as ever to his Hippocratic oath, Kildare puts his future at risk by using a controversial new therapy in a last ditch effort to cure a patient with amnesia. First class medical drama from Hollywood's Golden Era.

DVD00067
Dreamkeeper
On an Indian reservation in South Dakota an old storyteller asks his grandson Shane to take him and his old pony to the great powwow in Albuquerque. As they travel, Shane frets about the bad guys chasing him over money but Grandpa's tales of love, friendship and magic help Shane reconnect to his Indian heritage.

DVD00341
Earth
It's 1947 and India is poised on the brink of independence after two centuries of colonial rule. As Britain prepares to hand over control of the huge country, millions of formerly tolerant Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs begin to clash over their impending division into two separate nations, India and Pakistan. Caught in the middle of the crisis in the northern city of Lahore are Shanta, a young Hindu woman, and her charge Lenny, the 8 year-old daughter of a wealthy Parsee family. Sensitively directed by Deepa Mehta, this personal epic chronicles one of the most devastating upheavals in human history.

DVD00271
The Entertainer
A drama of seedy music hall life. Archie Rice, a 3rd-rate vaudevillian, whose song-and-dance routines are unappealing and boring, is nagged by his shrewish, alcoholic wife about his failures. His world comes tumbling down onto the garbage heap he has built up through his lifetime.

DVD00069
Fall of the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire spans from Constantinople to the far reaches of Germania, but Marcus Aurelius has grown old. His son Commodus is unstable, utterly amoral, and ruthlessly ambitious. The Emperor's sudden death sets the world stage for the fall of the Roman Empire.

DVD00269
The Fallen Idol
When Philip, an ambassador's young son, sees the butler's wife die at the climax of a jealous fight with her husband, he's torn between his conscience and his desire to protect his best friend and hero--the only adult who listens to him.

DVD00268
A Farewell to Arms
Romance grows between American lieutenant Frederic Henry in the ambulance service in Italy during World War I and the English nurse Catherine Barkley, who tends him when he is wounded.

DVD00088
Fire over England
Queen Elizabeth and her small island kingdom are threatened by mighty Spain and its fanatical monarch Philip, master of Europe and the New World. Adding to the threat from without is the danger from within: conspirators professing loyalty to the crown, but privately committed to Spanish domination. In desperation, Elizabeth sends a young naval officer on a secret mission to the Spanish court. He soon learns of the impending Armada. But can he reach home in time to forestall the invasion?

DVD00324
The Fishing Trip
This compelling story of lost childhood and possible redemption is told through the experiences of three young women. Kristi comes home from college to confront her stepfather Harold about a dark family secret. When she arrives, she discovers that Harold has gone off to his remote fishing cabin, the place where he first sexually abused Kristi and later her younger sister Jessie. Kristi coerces the unwilling Jessie and her best friend Murdoch to come along and face the past. Buoyed by humor and the resiliency of youth, their journey is a deeply affirming testament to the power of love and friendship.

DVD00090
Five Corners
The Bronx, 1964, newly released from prison, Heinz returns to his old neighborhood, eager to see Linda, the girl whose attempted rape got him sent up; and eager to settle a score with her former rescuer who has renounced violence. Before Heinz is through, the old neighborhood will never be the same.

DVD00339
Four Days
Fourteen-year-old Simon has to grow up fast when a bank heist masterminded by his father goes awry. As planned, Simon gets the loot and takes off for a rendezvous in northern Quebec, unaware that his father has died from gunshot wounds sustained in the heist. Meanwhile, smelling a double-cross, his father's partner-in-crime picks up the boy's trail and goes after him. After missing a bus, Simon hitches a ride with an oversexed woman who's running away from her husband. On their way to the rendezvous, the two form an intimate bond. Then the partner catches up with them. Violence and coarse language.

DVD00091
Girl Hunters
A drunken wreck since the disappearance of his beloved girl Friday, Velda, Mike Hammer is plucked from a New York gutter by the cops and hustled to hear the last words of a dying man. Those words sober him up fast: Velda is alive, but in deep trouble. Mike immediately sets out to find her. The quest plunges him into a murky world of deception, murder and cold war espionage. Mike keeps turning up leads; but his leads keep turning up dead. Finally his persistent prying sparks a lethal confrontation in which Hammer more than lives up to his name.

DVD00053
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

DVD00296
The Glory Boys
A group of Palestinians and an IRA killer unite in a terrorist plot to murder an Israeli nuclear scientist.

DVD00319
God's Gun
A gang of brutal desperados takes over a small western town and terrorizes the law-abiding inhabitants. But the desperados go too far when they murder the town priest. Summoned from retirement, the priest's twin brother slips into town. Donning his brother's blood stained cassock, he "returns from the dead" as God's Gun and proceeds to impose a cunning and terrible vengeance on the gang members.

DVD00140
Gods and Monsters
The story of James Whale, the director of "Frankenstein" and "The Bride of Frankenstein" in the time period following the Korean War. Whale is homosexual and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.

DVD00345
Goin' Down the Road
Fed up with the poverty and lack of possibilities at home, two young Nova Scotians, Pete and Joey, succumb to the lure of the big city and take off for Toronto fueled by dreams of glittering success. The two soon learn they're unqualified for anything but menial labor, and they settle for grueling minimum-wage jobs at a bottling plant. Joey hooks up with a girl and gets her pregnant. Pete, who wants more from life, is furious. When they lose their jobs, the two resort to desperate measures. This award-winning Canadian classic was directed by Don Shebib.

DVD00318
Gold
South Africa's Sonderditch gold mine is a leader in world production, with influence over stock markets and the lives of hundreds of miners. But an international syndicate guided by Sonderditch executive Manfred Steyner is hard at work plotting to destroy the mine in a massive flood that would kill hundreds and earn millions for the conspirators. Only the mine's General Manager, Rod Slater, a dashing, rugged miner with a reputation for reckless behavior, has the power to foil the syndicate's plans. But when Slater falls in love with Steyner's wife, Terry, his distraction could spell doom for the mine.

DVD00036
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
This film chronicles sixty years in the life of Mr. Chipping, an English schoolmaster who arrives at exclusive Brookfield in 1870 with much enthusiasm but little experience. At first unpopular, Mr. Chips eventually develops a more personal relationship with his students and becomes a legend by the time they must say goodbye.

DVD00066
Great Guy
When the Chief Inspector of New York Department of Weights and Measures is hospitalized by thugs, his assistant Johnny Cave takes over the job. An ex-prizefighter, Johnny goes after every grocer, butcher and gas station owner who cheats his customers by giving them less than they pay for. But when Johnny discovers that respected philanthropist Abel Canning Is in league with the racketeers and sets out to expose them, he incurs the wrath of his sweetheart, who is Canning's secretary. Can he bring down the crooks without losing his girl?

DVD00427
The Green Promise
In the 1940s a widowed farmer, Tom Matthews, moves to a new county with his four children hoping to make a fresh start. They soon meet David Barkley, the local agricultural agent, who is full of sound advice about farming methods. Threatened by the young man's ideas and his interest in Tom's oldest daughter, Tom dismisses the agent and his advice. Tom's stubbornness puts the farm and his relationships with his children at risk.

DVD00693
Guilty Conscience
Tired of constant philandering by her wealthy husband Arthur, Louise Jamieson demands a costly divorce. Arthur then plots to murder Louise, even rehearsing scenarios in an imaginary courtroom. When Jackie, Arthur's jilted mistress, tells Louise about his scheme the so-called victim makes plans of her own.

DVD00277
Gun Crazy
A Texas gambler, in Mexico to collect a debt, is seduced into marriage by the nymphomaniac daughter of a wealthy ranchero. When his wife's father dies, as the new family head the gambler must defend the ranch against murderous desperadoes and marauding Apaches.

DVD00258
The Hairy Ape
A free adaptation of O'Neill's play, "The Hairy Ape" symbolically portrays the despair of a man who has lost touch with the civilized world.

DVD00429
The Harrad Experiment
At a private co-ed college, a small, carefully selected group of students are encouraged to explore their sexuality under the supervision of Professor Phillip and Margaret Tenhausen. In the hot house atmosphere of their dorm the young participants in the Harrad Experiment soon discover their aptitude for sexual adventure. And, as their relationships deepen, they learn some valuable lessons about love and mutual respect.

DVD00187
Harrison's Flowers
When Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Harrison Lloyd is sent to Yugoslavia in 1991 to shoot the "ethnic skirmishes" that have broken out there, no one realizes how grave and dangerous the assignment will prove to be. But from the pictures he sends back, it soon becomes clear that the situation is far worse than imagined. When Harrison is reported dead, his loving wife Sarah refuses to believe it. Impulsively, she rushes to the war zone and with a colleague, searches for her husband-despite the increasingly horrific violence she encounters. This powerful drama contains coarse language.

DVD00059
Haley and Madonna
"Haley and Madonna" depicts Haley, a thirteen-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, who dreams of herself being in the Miss America Pageant someday. She makes friends with Madonna, a Miss America contestant, who later becomes Miss Michigan 2003. Haley and Madonna get together and perform on stage at a local pageant; Haley sings "Don't Laugh at Me," while Madonna dances her own choreography behind Haley.

DVD00257
He Walked by Night
Interrupted by a patrolman during a break-in, a cool, resourceful criminal shoots the cop--and sets off a manhunt by the outraged LAPD across metropolitan Los Angeles.

DVD00103
Hitch-Hiker
On a fishing trip to Mexico, a couple of friends give a lift to a guy whose car has broken down. They soon discover he's wanted for a string of murders. With the police closing in on him, The Hitch-Hiker forces the pair at gunpoint to drive him across Baja California to a port town from which he plans to escape. Along the way he torments them sadistically, letting them know he plans to kill them as soon as their usefulness is over.

DVD00190
Holocaust - Four Parts
Filmed on location in Austria and West Berlin, the story follows the family of Doctor Josef Weiss, a successful doctor in Berlin. In 1935, as he prepares for the marriage of his eldest son, Dr. Weiss cannot imagine the changes that will engulf his family over the next three years. The story also tracks the life and career of Erik Dorf, a young, good hearted lawyer who finds himself transformed by his rise in the Nazi hierarchy.

DVD00403
I Dream of Jeanie (With the Light Brown Hair)
It is the 1840s in Cincinnati, Ohio and songwriter Stephen Foster is just coming into his own with the huge success of "Oh, Susanna." The only problem is that his fickle fiancee is an aspiring classical singer and hates his lowbrow popular music. When he finds her in the arms of another, Steve is devastated. Deciding to lose himself, he disappears down the Mississippi to the consternation of his business manager brother, his impresario and the girl who truly loves him. This warm hearted romance features a minstrel show extravaganza and a score of Foster hits from the great showboat era.

DVD00409
Impact
The life of wealthy businessman Walter Williams is shattered when his adored wife plots his murder with her secret lover. Walt survives, barely. Dazed and confused, he wanders into a small town in Idaho and reads about his death in a newspaper. He is taken in by a beautiful auto mechanic and her mother and soon learns to appreciate his simple life with them. But memories of the attack continue to haunt him. When a tenacious police detective gets involved in the case, Walt returns to set the record straight and finds himself accused of murder. A compelling film noir fraught with shocks and surprises.

DVD00104
Indiscreet
Wealthy New York socialite Gerry Trent knows what a cad Jim Woodward is because she was engaged to him until she discovered he was cheating on her. In time she got over her disappointment; and now she has a new beau, author Tony Blake, a good man whom she truly loves. When she learns Woodward has become engaged to her innocent, trusting younger sister, Joan, she dearly wants to warn Joan off. But if she reveals her past affair with Woodward, it will devastate Joan and possibly destroy her relationship with Tony.

DVD00220
Indiscretion of an American Wife
A married American woman has gotten involved with another man while visiting relatives in Rome. She decides that the time has come to break off the relationship, and she makes plans to return home to her husband. But she soon realizes that she is not at all sure about what she wants to do, and she continues to agonize over her decision.

DVD00323
Inertia
Joseph can't accept his girlfriend Laura doesn't want him anymore. Restless to explore other options, Laura dreams of traveling to faraway places while bedding other men but she's also infatuated with Joseph's married friend Bruce. Surfing porn sites and ambivalent to his Japanese wife, Bruce is attracted to Joseph's 19 year old cousin Alex- who has moved in with Joseph under ulterior motives. In this anti-romance they all follow their desires, and only realize where it's taken them when it's too late.

DVD00337
Jack London
When yet another co-worker is badly injured at the canning factory where he labors for slave wages, a young man decides to try some safer, more interesting ways to make a living: oyster fishing off the west coast, seal hunting off Japan, searching for gold in the Yukon. Meanwhile, he writes stories based on his true-life adventures. His stories bring him a publisher, a lovely wife, and an assignment as a foreign correspondent covering first the Boer War and then Imperial Japan's invasion of Korea. Michael O'Shea and Susan Hayward star in this chronicle of the exciting life and times of the celebrated author.

DVD00222
The Jackie Robinson Story
Jackie Robinson was signed in 1947 by the Brooklyn Dodgers, and became the first player to break the color ban in big league baseball.

DVD00219
Jamaica Inn
A tale of an old inn on the desolate moors of Cornwall, where Mary Yellan, left alone in the world at her mother's death, takes refuge with her aunt. Her uncle, the landlord, directs a crew of smugglers, and the inn is a place of horror and mystery.

DVD00224
Jigsaw
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy investigates a series of murders and uncovers an anti-religious racist hate group.

DVD00105
Jungle Book
The Jungle Book follows the adventures of a baby boy who wanders away from his village into the Indian jungle where he's raised by wolves. Years later, stalked by Shere Kahn, a vicious tiger, Mowgli-now a teenager-stumbles upon his village. His mother takes him in and teaches him how to speak. But as Mowgli tries to adjust to "civilized" life, he discovers the pride and greed of humans can be more dangerous than anything in the animal kingdom.

DVD00225
Kansas City Confidential
When a down-on-his-luck World War II vet is framed in a million-dollar bank robbery, he swears to get even with the vicious criminals who pulled the daring daylight heist.

DVD00400
Katherine
Caught up in the social and political upheaval of the turbulent 1960s and 1970s a young college graduate from a wealthy family becomes radicalized by the issues and events dividing America, from the war in Vietnam to the killings at Kent State to the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Sissy Spacek gives a compelling performance as Katherine, the pretty blond debutante who becomes first an activist and then an urban terrorist.

DVD00430
Kid Dynamite
In 1940s New York, East Side amateur boxing champ and local gang leader Mugs McGinnis is scheduled for a showdown with the West Side's champ. But on his way to the arena Mugs is kidnapped by bookies out to make a bundle on the bout. When he doesn't show, his shy fellow gang member Danny stands in and, in a major upset, wins the fight. Suspecting Danny was part of the dirty deal, Mugs ostracizes him from the club and proceeds to bully him relentlessly. Branded a coward, and faced with losing the respect of the girl that he hopes to marry, Danny makes a brave decision. Vintage East Side Kids.

DVD00395
Killer Force
Anti-theft security measures at Syndicated Diamond Corporation are unbeatable thanks to Security Chief Webb. But Webb's ruthless methods and brutal manner offend his brightest lieutenant, Mike Bradley. Then Mike is contacted by a team of mercenaries with a daring plan to rob SDC - and the KILLER FORCE to bring it off. But they need Mike's inside knowledge of the security systems to get them inside the vaults - and then out again alive. Twists and surprises fuel a prolonged explosion of violence in this unusual thriller set in the desert of South Africa.

DVD00249
A Killing Affair
West Virginia, 1947: a young farm wife is kept a virtual prisoner by her sadistic, philandering husband. After he leaves for work one morning, she finds a handsome young stranger at her door. Then she finds her husband's body hanging in the smokehouse--hacked to death by an axe.

DVD00404
The Killing Kind
After a shy youth is coerced into participating in the gang rape of a girl under the boardwalk at the beach, he is convicted and sentenced to two years in jail. Upon his release he returns to the boarding house run by his doting mother whose behavior toward him borders on incestuous. Placid on the surface, but seething underneath, he becomes obsessed with avenging himself against the women he blames for all his problems in life. Contains coarse language, nudity and violence.

DVD00359
The Klansman
Tension mounts in a small Alabama town when a white woman is raped by a black man. The sheriff tries to keep a lid on things; but his deputy incites the Ku Klux Klan to retaliate against the black community. When Klansmen kill an innocent black man, his best friend instigates a deadly campaign of revenge against the perpetrators, one-by-one. The escalating violence pits the Klan against a Southern aristocrat who sympathizes with the blacks. And the sheriff is obliged to choose sides in the lethal confrontation. Violence, nudity and coarse language.

DVD00155
Last of the Mohicans
During the Seven Years' War, an American scout, Hawkeye, and his two Mohican companions Uncas and Chingachook, agree to help the British against the French and their savage Huron allies. When the British fort they're defending is overrun by Hurons avid for scalps, Hawkeye and the Mohicans risk their lives in a daring attempt to rescue the daughters of the British commander from the Hurons' treacherous leader, Magua.

DVD00246
The Last Time I Saw Paris
In Paris after World War II, a handsome army information officer meets two beautiful sisters, who fall madly in love with him.

DVD00247
Last Woman on Earth
A natural disaster leaves only 3 survivors: 2 men and a woman. At first they cooperate to survive. But as the days turn into weeks, the mounting tensions among them threaten to boil over.

DVD00336
Legend of the Northwest
In the 1880s, a widower and his two young children move to a tumble-down trading post deep in the wilds of Oregon. Their only friend in the beginning is a kindly trapper. But they soon discover they're being watched by a former occupant of the trading post: a German shepherd called Bearheart. Mistaking the dog for a wolf, the father shoots him. But the trapper arrives in time to tend the wounded animal. And he tells Bearheart's strange story to the family. It's a story of greed, murder, loyalty, justice and ironic twists of fate - one of the great legends of the frontier trail.

DVD00106
Legend of Sea Wolf
In San Francisco near the turn of the century, young Humphrey van Weyden is shanghaied aboard a schooner bound for the sealing grounds off Japan. The ship is commanded by Wolf Larson, a demon of a man, as cruel as he is cunning. Amused by Humphrey's gentility and book-learned philosophy, Wolf proceeds to teach him some harsh lessons about reality. But the lessons are interrupted by the sighting of a steamship commanded by Wolf's brother and bitterest enemy, Death Larson.

DVD00346
The Life and Loves of Mozart
In 1790s Vienna, Mozart sets about the first staging of his opera 'The Magic Flute.' Of course, he falls in love with the lead soprano, Annie Gottlieb. Werner is outstanding as Mozart and the music, of course, is heavenly.

DVD00300
Life With Father
Reminiscences of a happy life in a well-to-do New York family in the 1880s and 1890s. Dominating the scene is Father, fiery, outspoken, original, baffled by the waywardness of people and things, and always soothed and cajoled by Mother.

DVD00186
The List
Judge Richard Miller has the grim task of trying a fellow judge caught in a police raid on a high-priced call girl named Gabrielle. During the trial, Gabrielle stuns the courtroom by claiming to have other prominent lawyers, judges and politicians as her clients for kinky sex. Under pressure from the District Attorney to suppress the names of their friends and colleagues, Richard is threatened by thugs. And when Gabrielle's lawyer is murdered, he realizes these men will go to any lengths to protect their reputations and their hold on power. Violence and coarse language.

DVD00272
Little Lord Fauntleroy
For nine-year-old Cedric Errol growing up with his mother in Brooklyn during the 1890s, life changes forever when he learns he is the heir to an earldom. Brought over to England, he is installed in a castle with his aged grandfather, the lonely, irascible Earl of Dorincourt. His trust, steadfast good nature, and unwavering loyalty soon melt the old mans heart. And everyone is delighted with the new Little Lord Fauntleroy. Then another boy appears, oafish and ill-mannered, but claiming to be the true and rightful heir. A wonderfully entertaining, four-star family classic from Hollywood's golden era.

DVD00100
Little Princess
The Boer War has begun and Captain Crewe must join his regiment, after ensconcing his delightful little daughter Sara at Miss Minchin's academy for privileged young ladies. Thanks to her father's wealth and social standing, The Little Princess enjoys the best the school has to offer - including her own suite and private riding lessons - until the Captain's reported death in action leaves her penniless. Relegated to a dreary attic room and scullery duties, the sweet-tempered, stout-hearted Sara refuses to give in to despair.

DVD00432
The Long Dark Hall
Arthur Groome is a respectable, middle-class family man with a dark secret that's about to tear his life apart: a jealous passion for a pretty showgirl who's grown tired of his attentions. When Arthur shows up to berate her for breaking a date, he finds her stabbed to death in her bed-sitting room. Horrified, he hastens home. But his nightmare has just begun. The girl's landlady has seen him going into her room, her blood is on his clothes, and the murder weapon belongs to him. In short order Arthur Groome finds himself on trial for murder. Lilli Palmer co-stars in this suspenseful and surprising courtroom drama.

DVD00169
The Lost Daughter
After years of estrangement from his daughter Laurie, Andrew McCracken is shocked to learn that his once sweet little girl has become embroiled in an infamous cult's mass murders/suicide. With dozens of worshipper's dead and burned beyond recognition in Canada and Switzerland, the police are at a loss for answers, and Andrew must investigate for himself. With the help of Catherine Leder, one of Laurie's Swiss friends, Andrew searches for his missing daughter. But as he gets closer to the truth, he discovers that the responsibility for the entire affair rests far too close to home.

DVD00340
Lost & Delirious
Sent away to a girls' boarding school, shy Mary is quickly accepted by her free-spirited roommates Paulie and Tori. As Mary watches in confused fascination, the affection between Paulie and Tori grows intimate and sexual - until the morning they're caught in bed together. Unwilling to be ostracized by her friends and disowned by her ultraconservative family, Tori steadfastly denies the affair. But Paulie, with all the abandonment of adolescence, refuses to give her up and trumpets their love from the rooftops, plunging their world into a dangerous tailspin. Nudity and coarse language.

DVD00438
Love from a Stranger
When pretty office worker Carol Howard wins a sweepstakes fortune, she meets Gerald Lovell, a handsome sophisticate who sweeps her off her feet and away to Paris' glittering nightlife. Soon after, the couple marries and settles down to a life of fashionable luxury in the English countryside. But when her once-suave husband begins to fly into bizarre rages, Carol begins to doubt his sanity and fear for her life.

DVD00251
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy goes to college after returning from World War II. He is in love with Kay Wilson this time.

DVD00391
Made for Each Other
On a brief trip to Boston, a young attorney meets the girl of his dreams and marries her. They soon discover the course of true love can be far from smooth. As they struggle with interfering in-laws, mounting bills, career setbacks, and finally a crisis that threatens the life of their infant son, they cannot help wondering if they really are made for each other.

DVD00293
The Magic Sword
Basil Rathbone materializes as evil sorcerer Lodac to kidnap Princess Helene as vengeance on the king. George pursues the Princess with help from an enchanted horse, a magic sword and his Mom. Fantastic fun.

DVD00286
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
After a wealthy woman is murdered, Inspector Maigret matches wits with Radek, a brilliant but unstable loner while trying to save an innocent dupe from the guillotine.

DVD00241
The Man Who Knew Too Much
A vacationing upper-class British family becomes involved in an assassination plot when a murdered British spy whispers a secret to the father before dying. Enemy spies kidnap his daughter to ensure his silence.

DVD00218
Man with the Golden Arm
The underworld of Chicago's West Side in the late 1940s is portrayed through Frankie Machine--a poker dealer with a "golden arm" and morphine-addicted hustler with a bad conscience.

DVD00371
The Manhunt
After spending his savings on a couple of racehorses, a young wrangler runs afoul of a wealthy rancher who takes the horses from him on a whim. When he tries to take them back, the young wrangler is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to a term in an Arizona state prison. Abused by a sadistic warden, and determined to clear himself and recover his horses, he breaks out of prison - and proceeds to lead the police on the most intense, violent, carnage-packed chase in state history.

DVD00320
Marion Bridge
When recovering alcoholic Agnes returns to Cape Breton to help care for her dying mother, her stay-at-home sisters Theresa and Louise treat her with indifference and suspicion as the black sheep in the family. Her determination to confront the family's troubled past and expose its dark secrets obliges her mother and sisters, each in her own way, to reconnect with the world and with each other.

DVD00338
Men of Means
While he once threw touchdown passes, former star quarterback Rico "Bullet" Burke now throws his weight around as a collector for Brooklyn loan shark Tommy C. But Rico and his brother, Joey, dream of becoming men of means. So they rip off one of Tommy's deals, and then hide out with Rico's old coach and the beautiful Cleo in a bar outside Atlantic City. Rico's plan is to get away with the money and the girl. But Tommy has other plans for the brothers who crossed him. A twisting tale of gangland vengeance. Coarse language and violence.

DVD00310
The Men of Sherwood Forest
1194 AD: England is a troubled land, King Richard the Lionheart is a prisoner in Germany with but half his ransom paid. At home, meanwhile, his brother Prince John is intriguing to steal the crown for himself. And there are few in the kingdom to oppose him, save the men of Sherwood Forest. When treacherous Sir Guy Bolton plots on Price John's behalf to assassinate the King, Robin Hood, Friar Tuck and their merry men team up with the lovely Lady Alys to foil the dastardly plot and rescue the rightful monarch. Fast-paced fun spiced with dollops of derring-do.

DVD00307
Midnight Cop
Berlin police inspector Alex Glass is mystified by the bizarre and brutal murder of a comely young woman. The main suspect is a drug pusher who supplies the cities brothels and gaming dens with cocaine and heroin and anything else people are willing to pay for. The investigation gets more complicated when Alex falls for the pusher's main squeeze. Then another girl is gruesomely murdered and the midnight cop finds his friendship with the District Attorney on the line as he closes in on the killer. This sophisticated thriller contains violence, nudity and coarse language.

DVD00313
The Million Pound Note
Rescued by a freighter when his small boat is blown out to sea, a young American finds himself penniless and friendless in turn of the century London. But his life changes dramatically, and comically, when two eccentric brothers, to settle a bet, meet him. Suddenly nothing is too good for him and everyone from doormen to dukes wants to be his friend. He even meets the girl of his dreams. But will it last? A delightful comedy of manners, money and morals based on a story by Mark Twain.

DVD00309
Mohawk
In Colonial America, painter Jonathan Adams is commissioned by the Boston Historical Society to document life on the frontier. It's a life that thoroughly agrees with Jonathan and he loses himself happily in his work. But his carefree existence is threatened by friction between the settlers and the Indians who share the land. Then he meets and falls in love with the Chief's beautiful daughter Oneida. Together, they try to keep the fragile peace. But bad blood on both sides soon entangles the lovers in a desperate and bloody conflict.

DVD00289
The Monitors
Aliens conquer the Earth, but the twist is that they bring peace and prosperity and the human population rebels against it. Funny and frightening by turns, you won't forget it, especially the radio commercials for the alien authorities, The Monitors.

DVD00135
Monster's Ball
After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

DVD00290
The Most Dangerous Game
After being shipwrecked on a private island, Bob becomes the human prey of a deranged hunter, whom he must outwit to survive.

DVD00114
Murder of Crows
Disbarred after he refuses to defend a wealthy man he knows is guilty, New Orleans lawyer Lawson Russell drifts down to Key West, hoping to write a novel. Instead he's given one by an old man who then dies mysteriously. Lawson decides to publish it under his own name, and the novel A Murder of Crows becomes a runaway best seller. He only learns the serial killings meticulously described in the book actually occurred when he's arrested for committing them. On the run from a savvy police detective he has to find the real killer before he himself pays the price.

DVD00203
Murder by Decree
When the city of London is held captive by a blood-thirsty killer known as "Jack the Ripper," only one detective is shrewd enough to uncover the links in the seemingly random acts of unimaginable violence; the legendary Sherlock Holmes.

DVD00312
Murder Once Removed
When Frank Manning suspects that his doctor, Ron Wellesley, and his beautiful wife Lisa are having an affair, he digs into Ron's past and discovers a string of suspicious deaths. Fearing his own may be next, he confronts Ron with the evidence and threatens to share it unless Ron leaves town. But Frank underestimates the good doctor, who has already crafted a cunning plan to get rid of Frank. Ron is sure Lisa will go along with him after the fact and he has no one else to worry about since the local police detective happens to be his best friend. O, the tangled webs we weave.

DVD00314
Mutiny
During the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall sails to France to fetch $10 million in gold for the American cause. As first officer, he takes his best friend Ben and he brings along his former gun crew. The gun crew soon learns the purpose of their voyage. In France they pick up the gold, and a passenger - Ben's former sweetheart, Leslie. Ben stalls for time when the gun crew enlists him in their scheme to steal the cargo. But he finds himself unable to resist the beautiful Leslie and her unbridled lust for gold. Treachery, betrayal and vengeance ensue.

DVD00123
Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe is called away from his beloved orchids to assist a wealthy realtor who is being pressured by the F.B.I. It seems she sent out dozens of copies of a book that paints the agency in a bad light and they're paying her back in nasty ways.

DVD00168
Night of Terror
A young woman in a wheelchair is stalked by a mysterious killer who is after something she has... but she doesn't know what it is.

DVD00113
O
Something is eating away at Hugo Goulding's moral compass: jealousy and resentment. Taken for granted by his father who coaches his basketball team, by his teammates, and by his friends, Hugo devises an intricate, sinister plot to ruin everyone he believes has wronged him, especially the person he feels has stolen his deserved glory - his best friend Odin.

DVD00372
Obsession
Dr. Clive Riordan snaps; his wife Storm has had one too many affairs, and her latest lover Phil pays the price. The good doctor locks Phil up until his deadly scheme is ready. Two things interfere: a seemingly dim Superintendent from Scotland Yard and a little dog called Monty.

DVD00260
Of Human Bondage
Philip Carey is a sensitive, talented, orphan with a club foot who cannot find his true vocation. He begins a love affair with a waitress hardly suspecting it will drastically alter the course of his life.

DVD00283
The Old Testament
Jerusalem, early in the second century B.C.: the Judeans are oppressed by the Syrian King Antiochus. Judas Maccabee, eldest son of the High Priest, urges revolt. But Mattathias chooses the path of peaceful co-existence urged by his second son Simon. Then the new Syrian Governor demands that the Ark of the Covenant be replaced by a golden idol. Mattathias' refusal sparks a bloody struggle which ensues; most of the Maccabees are killed. Finally it falls to Simon to take up the sword and lead his people in reclaiming Jerusalem and reconsecrating the temple.

DVD00024
Oliver Twist
After being apprenticed to a miserly undertaker, Oliver runs away, only to fall in with Artful Dodger and his gang of thieves who are determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves.

DVD00301
On Golden Pond
In this version from 2001, Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are superb as Ethel and Norm Thayer, waiting at their beloved vacation home on Golden Pond for a visit from their estranged daughter and her new husband.

DVD00370
On the Run
When hit man Jean Payette is saddled with a 10-year-old nephew, he puts the caretaker of his Australian stud farm in charge of the boy. Harry, a black American with his own checkered past, takes a liking to the lonely boy. Then, by mischance, young Paul sees his uncle kill someone. To save the boy, Harry grabs him and flees. Payette comes after them with a cold, calculating vengeance. Hunted relentlessly halfway across the country, Harry realizes the only way to stop their pursuer is to turn and confront him. A suspenseful and surprising thriller with a dramatic showdown.

DVD00292
One-Eyed Jacks
Young Rio and Dad Longstreet are best friends and partners-in-crime in old Mexico-until one abandons the other to save his own skin. Five years later, they meet again. Marlon Brando and Karl Malden are superb in this compelling Western tale of friendship, betrayal and revenge.

DVD00332
Our Daily Bread
Unable to find work in Depression-era America, young John and Mary start a communal cooperative on an abandoned farm, where other luckless city dwellers learn to work the land and share the fruits of their labors. But when their meager savings run out, and a severe drought threatens to destroy their crop, the prospect of ruin forces the community to take radical action that will sorely test their characters and their strength.

DVD00299
Our Town
Set in a once-typical American town, Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. Daily life in the town, the courtship and wedding of George Gibbs and Emily Webb and, finally the death of Emily affirm the beauty and sadness of life.

DVD00185
Out of Sync
When down-and-out record producer Roger Deacon is handed what appears to be a plum project by a powerful record company executive, he's overjoyed that his career is finally on the rebound. Then he discovers his sexy new star Sunni is tone deaf. Depressed about his prospects, Roger nurses his sorrow in a bar, where he meets Maggie a bored housewife with a fabulous voice. With neither woman's knowledge, Roger subs Maggie's voice for Sunni's and produces a string of hits - until Sunni insists on performing at a live concert.

DVD00362
Outpost in Morocco
Because of his way with women as much as his courage and quick wit, French Foreign Legion Captain Paul Gerard is assigned to escort the daughter of a powerful emir back to her father's city in the desert near the legion's most remote outpost in Morocco. By the end of the time they reach their destination, the captain and the lovely emir have become enamored with each other. Then Paul discovers the emir is secretly uniting the desert tribes in a jihad to sweep the foreigners from their land. And all that stands in their way is the lonely, local garrison.

DVD00365
The Painted Hills
When an aging prospector finds a promising vein of gold, he rushes to town with his faithful companion Lassie to share the good news with his longtime partner - only to learn the man has just died, leaving a grief stricken wife and their 10 year old Tommy. Needing help to work the vein, he offers a share to a well meaning friend of his partner. With Tommy helping as well, their hidden stash of gold grows quickly... until gold fever puts all their lives at risk, and only Lassie can save them.

DVD00363
Palooka
When boxing manager Knobby Walsh encounters simple farm boy Joe Palooka, son of retired champ Peter Palooka he cons him into going to New York for a shot at the middleweight championship. The fact that Joe doesn't have his father's talent does not stop him from knocking out regional champion Al McSwat with a lucky punch. With the money rolling in, Knobby fixes a series of matches but when the overconfident Palooka is tricked into a rematch against McSwat, he learns that his career as a prizefighter may soon be over.

DVD00127
Paris Trout
Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loan shark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets Paris' wife Hannah. A former schoolteacher, she made the mistake of her life when she married Paris, who brutalizes her. Soon Paris goes beyond the overgenerous bounds of what a man in his position can get away with even in the segregated south, leading to a spiral of perverse insanity.

DVD00001
The Passion of the Christ
This film details the final hours and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

DVD00275
Patterns
A small town plant manager, whose company has been swallowed up by a conglomerate, is moved up to the executive level of the conglomerate and set up with a beautiful home, a fancy office and a top secretary. Soon, however, he realizes that his promotion may have more to do with leverage against one of the CEO's adversaries, his vice president. His materialistic wife urges him to succeed no matter what the moral cost.

DVD00305
Penny Serenade
A married couple about to separate after a shared tragedy remembers their life together in this drama about the heartaches and hard-won joys of love and marriage.

DVD00160
The Phantom Light
Gordon Harker and Binnie Hale star as a pair of bickering detectives on the trail of a mysterious killer. Two lighthouse keepers on the desolate coast of Wales have disappeared and someone is luring freighters onto the rocks with a false beacon. Funny and frightening by turns, this mystery is from director Michael Powell.

DVD00226
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A vain, decadent young man keeps his youth while his portrait grows old and reveals the evil in his life.

DVD00245
Pied Piper of Hamlin
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves. A magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain. Once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on the bargain - to their subsequent regret.

DVD00204
The Pimpernel Smith
Horatio Smith - the great-great-grandson of Baroness Orczy's "The Scarlet Pimpernel" - a British professor of archaeology, attempts to rescue refugees from lands invaded by the Nazis.

DVD00205
Port of New York
A team of customs agents fight to bring down a gang of drug smugglers.

DVD00397
Powderkeg
1914 near the Mexican-American border: To save his brother from the hangman's noose a ruthless bandit leader and his gang hijack a train and threaten to slay every man, woman and child aboard unless the brother is set free. Two adventurers are summoned by the president of the railroad to liberate the passengers. But they have hardly had time to devise a plan when they discover the hangman has unexpected competition. So now the only question seems to be whether their plan will come apart or blow up in their faces.

DVD00216
Power, Passion and Murder
A movie mogul celebrates his success while a rising star risks her career in an irresistible romance.

DVD00252
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
An intrepid girl newscaster and a resourceful repairman are hurled into Vonya, a bizarre alternate world bristling with unfamiliar dangers and dominated by a half-mad evil warlord.

DVD00316
Project: Kill
Sickened by the fact that his top-secret agency is training assassins for the U.S. government, and realizing he won't be allowed to retire, agent John Trevor decides to disappear. He makes it to the Philippines. But the agency sends his assistant Frank to hunt him down. Frank enlists the local police in the search. Meanwhile, a vicious gang from Hong Kong is after John for his knowledge of the agency's secret assassination techniques. Pursued by both sides, he needs all his wiles and more to survive. The chase ends in a lethal confrontation on the docks in Manila.

DVD00274
The Proud Rebel
Shortly after the Civil War, an impoverished southerner roams the Midwest with his young son seeking a cure for the boy's muteness. In Illinois, they're taken in by a kindly spinster in return for their help on her farm. Finely crafted, heartwarming family entertainment.

DVD00304
Pygmalion
Henry Higgins, a confirmed bachelor and professor of phonetics, makes a bet that he can transform a Cockney flower girl into a lady and present her at an ambassador's ball. Eccentric and domineering, the professor soon discovers that his "subject" has a mind of her own and that he has some lessons to learn about life and love.

DVD00398
Quicksand
Dan Brady, a cocky car mechanic, wants to impress a fatally attractive blond who is new in town. Short of cash Dan borrows $20 from his employers to take her out. They have a good time and Dan has no idea he has taken his first step into quicksand. The $20 quickly becomes $100 which can only be repaid by a crime which leaves him open to extortion, which leads him into a worse crime. Every move he makes to extricate himself only sucks him deeper into trouble until the cops are after him for suspected murder.

DVD00217
The Quiet Man
Sean Thornton is an American prizefighter who returns to Ireland seeking his roots and finds Mary Kate Danaher as well. John Ford directed this Academy Award-winning masterpiece of love and pride.

DVD00408
The Racketeer
New York City in the Roaring 20s: Crime boss Mahlon Keane is gradually gaining respectability with his charitable activities. Then he falls for Rhonda Philbrooke, a beautiful blueblood who has been left penniless after an acrimonious divorce. Through his patience, persistence and generosity Keane wins her over and she agrees to marry him. But can he get away from his past to make a new life with her? Treachery within his own criminal ranks threatens his future; and even love may not be as true as it seems in this tale of crime and passion.

DVD00410
Radiance
When their mother dies, three very different sisters reunite at their ramshackle house on the coast of Queensland, Australia for the funeral. Cressy's a successful opera singer who has been everywhere, Mae is embittered by years of caring for Mum alone, and carefree Nona, the youngest, is pregnant from a recent one night stand. Over the course of 24 hours skeletons in the family closet begin to rattle violently and the old jealousies and resentments flare up and finally burst into flames as the sisters struggle to come to terms with the past they have thought they had left behind. A painfully funny and deeply moving family drama with superb performances.

DVD00276
Rain
On the remote island of Pago Pago, a South Seas prostitute, Sadie Thompson, attracts the attention of a fire-and-brimstone missionary hell-bent on her reform.

DVD00402
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die
In 1862 as the Civil War heats up in the East, the Santa Fe Territory becomes the scene of a bitter blood bath when Fort Holman is infiltrated by a band of marauders who have been plucked by the gallows for the job by a disgraced Union officer. A year earlier, Colonel Pembroke was forced to surrender the besieged fort after his son was captured by the Confederate commander. Safe inside, the treacherous Major Ward then proceeded to kill the boy. Now Pembroke is back hell bent on vengeance.

DVD00228
The Red House
Folks whisper about the Morgan's, who live on an isolated farm near Oxhead woods: Pete, his sister Ellen, and their adopted child, 17-year-old Meg. The sinister woods contain a dark secret which Pete is determined to keep hidden. A suspenseful drama with a superb musical score.

DVD00206
The River Niger
Feisty poet Johnny Williams and his wife Mattie proudly await the return of their son Jeff from a stint in the Air Force. When he learns Jeff hates the service and plans to leave it, Johnny goes on a bender in this powerful adaptation of a Tony Award-winning play.

DVD00441
Royal Wedding
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star in this lavishly produced musical as a dynamic brother and sister act. Devoted to their theatrical career, they have little interest in marriage. Tom prefers the solitary life while his sister Ellen flits from one shallow relationship to another. But when their agent books their hit show in London during a royal wedding Tom and Ellen get caught up in the excitement and find some serious romance of their own.

DVD00419
Sabotage
When a power outage plunges the whole city into darkness, London finds itself at the mercy of a band of saboteurs intent on spreading fear and devastation. Their principal agent is an unassuming, middle-aged man who lives quietly with his young wife and her teenage brother. His next act of sabotage is to leave a time bomb in the checkroom of a busy train station. Under police surveillance himself, he persuades the child to deliver the package for him. On the way - in this early suspense masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock - the boy is delayed by a parade.

DVD00244
Salt of the Earth
In New Mexico in the 1950s, Mexican zinc miners go on strike, fed up with brutal, unsafe working conditions and bare subsistence in a company shantytown next to the mine. At the forefront of the struggle are union activist Ramon and his pregnant wife Esperanza. In addition to a racist employer who has no intention of meeting their demands and uses cruel tactics to break them, they must contend with their own grinding poverty and the engrained macho chauvinism of Ramon and the other men. Simple and direct, this moving drama celebrates solidarity and the human spirit.

DVD00348
Savages
Andy Griffith is Horton Maddock, a lawyer who hires gas jockey Ben Campbell as a guide for a hunting trip in the desert. When Maddock accidentally shoots a prospector, he decides to eliminate the only witness - Ben - and sends them both on a wild manhunt in the desert.

DVD00111
Scarlett Letter
A faithful adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of sin and redemption set in Colonial Massachusetts in the 1600's. Beautiful Hester has a daughter out of wedlock and keeps the father's name a secret. In shame, she must wear the scarlet letter.

DVD00180
The Scarlet Pimpernel
As the Reign of Terror rages through France in the spring of 1792, the only hope for the aristocratic families waiting in the shadow of the guillotine is a mysterious and daring master of disguise who rescues as many of them as he can. Outraged, First Citizen Robespierre orders his Prefect of Police, the sly and ruthless Chauvelin, to identify and destroy the Scarlet Pimpernel. A classic adaption of Baroness d'Orczy's gripping tale of intrigue, betrayal, heroism and love.

DVD00215
Scarlet Street
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results.

DVD00393
Scrooge
Alistair Sims provides the defining role as Ebenezer Scrooge in this retelling of the classic Dickens tale. The theme of redemption is marvelously illustrated in Scrooge's new found love of the season precipitated by visions of the three ghosts - Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. A holiday classic, it is rated 8 out of 10 stars.

DVD00344
Second Wind
Stockbroker Roger Matheson has everything going for him: a beautiful wife, an upscale home in the suburbs, and a vice-presidency in his firm. Then, to keep in shape, he gets into running; and, in his 30s, he finds himself irresistibly impelled to become a competitive miler. But running is hard work; and Roger's training regimen takes a toll on his marriage and his job. His wife feels shut out of his life. His most important client feels neglected. Facing the first serious crisis in his life, Roger struggles to hang on to his dream - without losing his wife or his career.

DVD00273
The Second Woman
A small northern California town suspects that a talented architect is responsible for the death of his fiancee.

DVD00295
Secret Agent
British secret agents track a spy for the Central Powers through World War I Geneva.

DVD00136
Shattered Glass
In the late 1990's, Stephen Glass is the hottest of the young writers at America's pre-eminent magazine of political commentary - until a discrepancy in one of his articles leads to the discovery of a terrible truth and a scandal that shocks Washington and the publishing world. Based on a true story.

DVD00396
Shoot it: Black / Shoot it: Blue
Suspended for a misdemeanor and then forced to walk the beat, patrolman Herbie Rucker is bored and annoyed. So for excitement he chases down a black purse snatcher and kills him in cold blood. He is confident as a white police officer that his story of self defense will be accepted. His crime however has been witnessed and filmed by a young black student. In his search for justice the student cooperates with the murdered man's wife and her able attorney. They plan to expose Rucker at the hearing. But when it seems the killer may get off the student seeks another path to justice.

DVD00352
Sin Takes a Holiday
Enticed by his wealth and prestige, Sylvia Brenner accepts a marriage proposal from her boss, decadent divorce lawyer Gaylord Stanton. But the marriage is merely a ruse to put Stanton's soon-to-be divorced lover off the matrimonial trail. With his alibi in place, Stanton packs Sylvia off to Paris, where she takes up with Stanton's dashing friend Reggie Durant and blossoms into an alluring woman of style and grace. But when Reggie asks her to marry him, Sylvia puts him off until she can consult with Gaylord.

DVD00294
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Angie Evans, fast-rising nightclub singer, interrupts her career to marry struggling songwriter Ken Conway. When Ken lucks into a career as chart-topping radio crooner, Angie is forced into idle luxury which proves her downfall. Her potential alcoholism burgeons and Ken remains clueless concerning his responsibility for her problems.

DVD00137
The Snow Walker
Stranded in the high Arctic after his bush plane crashes, maverick pilot Charlie Halliday is brashly confident that he'll get out alive. Leaving Kanaalaq, the ailing young Inuit women he was flying to the hospital, he makes a disastrous solo attempt to walk out of the vast wilderness. When his ignorance almost gets him killed, Charlie is obliged to realize that Kanaalaq and her understanding of this beautiful, but unforgiving environment offer their only hope of surviving. A rich and rewarding drama.

DVD00435
South Bronx Heroes
After being beaten and abused by their current foster father, a brutal child pornographer, young Paul and his little sister Michelle escape with incriminating evidence and flee into the mean streets of the city. Holed up in an abandoned building, they're menaced by marauding gangs and hunted by the pornographer. Desperate for food and shelter, they break into the apartment of a hip young black dude, who catches them red-handed. When he hears their story and sees the evidence, he joins them in a dangerous scheme to rip off the pornographer. Contains adult themes, coarse language, and violence.

DVD00411
Speak Like a Child
Confident, swaggering teenager Bill, his girlfriend Ruby, and their pal Sammy grow up together in an orphanage in northern England. As the leader of the group, Billy protects the other two, but demands submission to his will. Through their often wild adventures together the three form an intimate bond. As adults, the three reunite for a visit to the now abandoned orphanage where Bill announces he has bought a house in which they all can live together as a family. But a dark secret from their past threatens to destroy their future. This unusual and compelling drama contains violence, nudity and coarse language.

DVD00343
A Special Day
In 1930's Rome, Hitler is arriving for his first visit with Italy's dictator Mussolini. Emmanuelle rushes off to the parade marking the historic event, leaving his wife Antoinette in the kitchen. She escapes the heat and boredom with a walk on the roof where she meets Gabriel. Their meeting will change both their lives and gives us this wonderful masterpiece from director Ettore Scola.

DVD00406
The Sphinx
Lionel Atwill is scary as Jerome Breen, a philanthropist who is also a deaf mute. Breen is accused in the serial killings of stockbrokers but the killer was seen talking. A great ending.

DVD00349
The Spreading Ground
When the bodies of five young girls show up, one after another, in the waters of Burman City, veteran detectives Ed Delongpre and Mike McGivern are charged with nailing the serial killer who's stalking the city's playgrounds. Worried that public panic will undermine a pending municipal bond issue, the mayor suppresses the news and gives the cops a 48-hour deadline to solve the case. Then she secretly enlists the help of the local mobsters who appoint slick, college-educated hit man Johnny Gault to hunt the culprit down and kill him. Who's going to find him first? Coarse language.

DVD00285
The Stars Look Down
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree. Davey finds he is ill-at-ease in his role, the more so when he realizes Jenny still loves her former boyfriend. When he finds that his father and the other miners are going to have to continue working on a possibly deadly coal seam he decides to act.

DVD00424
Strange Fits of Passion
Anna, a pretty twenty something living in Sydney, Australia has a little secret that is really starting to bother her: she is still a virgin. Her chagrin level increases when she meets a handsome young poet at the bookstore where she works and then looses him through shyness and ineptitude. With the encouragement of her best friend Jimmy, who is gay, she is determined to lose the impediment to the romantic fulfillment she yearns for. Easier decided than done, however in this bittersweet comedy her clumsy campaign to initiate herself into the muster of sex leads to unintended and unexpected consequences.

DVD00261
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind Iverstown and married to "good boy" Walter O'Neil, now district attorney. At first, Sam is more interested in displaced blonde Toni Marachek than in his boyhood friends; but they draw him into a convoluted web of plotting and cross-purposes.

DVD00243
The Strange Woman
Bangor, Maine in the early 1800s is a boom town. When her abusive father expires, young Jenny Hager determines to use her beauty and wits to raise her station in life. Self-serving and amoral, Jenny attempts to fulfill her ambitions by manipulating others. But at the same time, her kindness and generosity to those less fortunate earn her respect. When the wealth older merchant she seduces into marriage fails to satisfy her, she sets out to find love, not caring who may be hurt along the way.

DVD00227
Suddenly
The tranquility of a small California town is marred only by Sheriff Todd Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.

DVD00175
The Sundowners
Paddy and Ida Carmody and their son Sean are migrant drovers in the Australian outback of the 1920s. While Ida and Sean yearn for a farm of their own, the thought of settling down is more than Paddy's undeterred spirit can bear.

DVD00202
The Swiss Conspiracy
When give clients of an exclusive Swiss Bank receive mysterious letters threatening to expose their dirty secrets unless they each pay one million Swiss Francs, bank president Johann Hurtil calls in International Affairs Consultant David Christopher to protect his powerful clients. But safeguarding the blackmail victims becomes dangerous for Christopher when one of the clients, an old enemy and Chicago mobster puts a hit on him, and he finds himself fighting off the man he's been hired to protect.

DVD00354
A Tattered Web
Police Sergeant Ed Stagg is a hard-nosed, no-nonsense cop with 25 years on the force and a black-or-white view of right and wrong. Only his beloved daughter can bring out the softer side of this veteran homicide detective. When Sergeant Staggs discovers his good-looking son-in-law is having a torrid affair with another woman, his temper gets the better of him - with deadly results. Now he has to decide whether to cover up the crime, or break his daughter's heart by letting her husband take the rap - or find someone else to pin it on.

DVD00364
The Teacher
Every boy needs someone to teach him the lessons of love. For shy 18-year-old Sean Roberts growing up in a small California town the sexual tutor is a beautiful Diane Marshall, who also just happens to be the teacher at Sean's high school. Lonely and frustrated Diane seduces her naive but willing pupil and educates him in the pleasures of the flesh. But lust leads to life threatening menace when their passionate affair provokes the jealous rage of Ralph Gordon, a deranged peeping-tom with a coffin full of weapons and a killer crush on Diane.

DVD00108
Tell Tale Heart
Life changes for Edgar Marsh, a cultured but shy and reclusive bachelor in 19th-century Paris, when a beautiful young woman moves into the rooming house across the street. Encouraged by his best friend Carl, he asks her out. She enjoys his company and Edgar is soon hopelessly in love. Then she meets Carl, and the two find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other, as Edgar discovers one night when, through her window, he sees them making love. Driven by a jealous rage, he exacts a violent revenge, only to be hounded to the brink of madness afterward by guilt.

DVD00333
That Uncertain Feeling
To their friends and the society press, Jill and Larry Baker are known as the Happy Bakers. But problems arise when insomnia and persistent hiccups drive Jill to a shrink who advises her that she's not getting enough attention from her work-obsessed husband. As an antidote, Jill becomes involved with Sebastian, an eccentric concert pianist. All too soon, Sebastian has moved in, Larry has moved out, and the Happy Bakers are headed for a divorce in this sophisticated screwball comedy from famed director Ernst Lubitsch.

DVD00353
They Call it Murder
When a body is found floating in his swimming pool, wheelchair-bound Frank Antrim calls in the Sheriff. Two bullets, fired by two different guns, are lodged in the victim's heart. But which killed him, and who pulled the trigger? And why is an insurance company refusing to settle on the year-old death of Frank's son, Brian? Investigator D.A. Doug Selby finds himself drawn to Brian's attractive young widow and to her charming father-in-law, Frank - until the body count begins to mount. Based on an Erle Stanley Gardner mystery.

DVD00356
They Came From Beyond Space
When a meteorite shower lands in a precise formation on a Cornwall farm, the British government suspects the arrival of an alien intelligence. The scientists sent to investigate under the direction of astrophysicist Lee Mason soon fall under the aliens' mind control and are put to work on a mysterious project. However, Mason's boss, Dr. Curtis Temple, proves immune to the aliens' mind control power. Defying the invaders and their lethal threats, Temple enlists the aid of an old friend and sets out to thwart their evil scheme and rescue Mason and her team in this thought-provoking sci-fi thriller from England.

DVD00177
They Made me a Criminal
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, high-living prize fighter Johnny Bradfield flees to avoid arrest. Weeks later, down and out in Arizona, he's taken in by Grandma Rafferty and young Peggy, who run a fresh-air farm for delinquent boys. After a shaky start, Johnny becomes a role model for the boys, and falls in love with Peggy. Then, to win some much-needed money for the farm, he takes a risk-not knowing a detective has picked up on his trail.

DVD00176
The Third Man
An American novelist comes to Europe for the funeral of an old friend and finds himself entangled in a spiraling web of international intrigue.

DVD00367
The Thirty-Nine Steps
When the secret agent he befriends is murdered in his London flat, Canadian Richard Hannay finds himself the target of a police manhunt and deadly ring of spies intent on silencing him forever. His only hope of surviving is a strong-willed young woman who wants no part of him or his farfetched story. A vintage Hitchcock film with surprise, suspense and humor waiting around every turn.

DVD00201
Till the Clouds Roll By
This star-studded extravaganza celebrates the life of composer Jerome Kern, from his early struggles in Tin Pan Alley, through his smash hits on Broadway, to his crowning achievement Show Boat, one of the best loved musicals ever made.

DVD00179
The Time of Your Life
Nick's Pacific Street Saloon and Entertainment Palace is home to an appealing assortment of eccentrics; among them: a pinball addict, a champagne sipping philosopher, a cigar store Indian fighter, and a beautiful young woman with a murky past. Nick appreciates their eccentricities for the spice they add to his daily existence. When an extortionist tries to shake Nick down, his loyal customers put aside their differences and band together to trounce the villain.

DVD00178
A Time to Die
Toward the end of WWII, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is captured by an elite S.S. squad desperate for information on Allied troop positions. When he refuses to cooperate, they brutally slaughter his French wife and her entire village, then shoot him and leave him for dead. But Rogan survives. Years later, still haunted by his wife's murder, he vows to hunt down her killers one by one.

DVD00230
Tom Brown's School Days
When Dr. Thomas Arnold is appointed headmaster of Rugby in the 1830s, he immediately sets about curbing the moral laxity and bullying that plague the renowned boy's school. He soon finds an ally in Tom Brown, a new boy who becomes the target of a group of older bullies led by Flashman. After suffering cruelly, Tom leads the younger boys in a revolt against their persecutors. Finally, he challenges Flashman to a fistfight and courageously holds his own against the bigger boy. But more trouble follows when Tom is accused of being an informer. A superb adaptation of Thomas Hughes' classic tale.

DVD00209
Too Late for Tears
A bag containing $60,000 is thrown into the convertible of a young couple. The husband wants to turn it in; the wife insists on waiting a few days to see if anyone's looking for it.

DVD00154
Trapped
When bogus $20 bills begin turning up, the Secret Service arranges the release from prison of a convicted counterfeiter, hoping he will lead them to the plates. But he has his own agenda.

DVD00211
The Trial
In this striking adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic novel, a young middle-manager, and seemingly model citizen wakes up one morning to find the police searching his apartment. Arrested for unspecified crimes, he's released but kept under close surveillance pending the trial. Alternately protesting his innocence and pondering his possible guilt, he awaits his uncertain fate with mounting anxiety - anxiety which his high-priced lawyer seems more inclined to aggravate than assuage.

DVD00284
Tulsa
In 1920s Oklahoma, a proud, domineering redhead fights her way to victory in the war for an oil empire after her father's death.

DVD00347
Tunnel
In a daring heist, Geary and his murderous gang hijack a $90-million diamond shipment guarded by Todd Seale. In the shootout, the gang kills Todd's partner and flees with the loot, but Todd wounds and captures Geary. When Geary later promises to return the diamonds for a lighter sentence, Todd goes along on the train ride to be sure he keeps his plea bargain. With the help of his gang, Geary escapes in an isolated railway tunnel, sealing in the train and its passengers, and planting bombs to blow them up while he and his gang take off with the diamonds. Todd, however, has other ideas. Coarse language and violence.

DVD00193
Virus
A military plane, carrying a deadly virus developed by the military, crashes. The virus spews from the wreckage, killing all humans except a group of scientists stationed in Antarctica. Learning of the disaster, the mission of the 855 men and eight women survivors of the worldwide disaster is twofold: ensure the survival of the human race and save the planet from a thermonuclear holocaust to be unleashed by automated American and Soviet war machines.

DVD00018
Warrior Queen
This is the story of Boudica, queen of the Iceni in first-century Briton, who united the tribes of Briton in rebellion against Roman occupation.

DVD00157
Waterfront
A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives and the eldest daughter, now a woman, is none too pleased at her father's attempted return.

DVD00192
The White Orchid
Highly respected and highly respectable, archaeologist Robert Burton is annoyed when the photographer he's requested to document his work in Guatemala turns out to be a brash, beautiful blond. But Kathryn soon proves her worth by charming a wealthy rancher into helping them find a lost tribe deep in the jungle. The expedition is long and arduous. And by the time they reach their destination, both men have fallen hopelessly in love with her. Then, an untimely accident turns the savage tribe against them, and all three find themselves in deadly peril.

DVD00174
Why Shoot the Teacher?
In the 1930's, Max Brown is an urban young man from an Eastern province, fresh from college, whose only job offer is in a one-room school house in the Canadian prairie. At first he's distant, superior, lonely, and bewildered; his students are rebellious. Over the course of the year, he is drawn to Alice Field, the wife of a farmer, in a love that can lead nowhere. But, he and his students connect, a connection that matters and lasts.

DVD00181
Win, Place or Steal
Life is sliding slowly downhill for Billy his brother Ray and their friend Frank; they're all hooked on the ponies, and none of them can pick a winner. Then, one day at the par-mutual window, Billy conceives a larcenous scheme to beat the odds big time. And the slippery slope they're on suddenly gets steeper and slicker. With considerable ineptitude, and more hard work than they've expended in years, they put the scheme in motion. It proves to be a tad more complicated than they imagined. But they mismanage to pull it off - with unexpected and hilarious results.

DVD00182
Winterset
In 1920, an immigrant is wrongly executed for a payroll murder. Sixteen years later, a law professor sparks new thinking on the case and the victim's son, Mio seeks the truth. When the real killer, the judge, and the witness meet, will Mio find out the truth?

DVD00189
Woman on the Run
A mix of hilarious and hair-raising, this is a terrific crime drama. After witnessing a gangland murder, Frank Johnson goes into hiding from the killer and the cops. His wife Eleanor worries that Frank is running from her. She wants to find him but so does a hired killer out to eliminate the witness and he is watching her closely. Who will find Frank first?

DVD00167
Woman Wanted
Following the death of his mentally unstable wife, Yale professor Richard Goddard is unable to live peacefully with his rebellious son Wendell in their fine old home. So, through a classified ad, he hires a housekeeper in hopes she can bring some order and stability to their lives. The young woman, Emma soon becomes a healing influence, winning the respect of father and son alike with her grace, charm and lovingly direct nature, and helping them come to terms with their troubled past. But, almost inevitably, they both fall in live with her, putting their new relationship at risk.

DVD00141
Wonderland
On July 1, 1981, L.A. police discovered a grisly quadruple homicide at 8762 Wonderland Avenue. The investigation uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the murders, both involving porn actor John Holmes.

DVD00156
Young and Innocent
A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to be one such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. He runs to call the police; however, two witnesses think that he is the escaping murderer. Robert is arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and goes on the run with Chief Constable Burgoyne's daughter Erica, determined to prove his innocence. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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DVD00096
Bird of Paradise
An American adventurer arrives on a remote South Seas Island and falls in love with the beautiful native Princess Luana. When a tribal medicine man declares their budding relationship as taboo, the two conspire to continue their affair in secret, then, in the face of grave danger, elope together. But when the island's volcano erupts, island religion dictates that a young woman be sacrificed to appease the island god. Luana, the Bird of Paradise, is the chosen sacrifice, and the natives set out to hunt down the happy lovers.

DVD00231
Border Cop
U.S. Immigration Officer Frank Cooper spends most of his down time south of the border because he likes the people, especially his young friends Beni and Leina. So he's concerned when the local crime boss, Suarez, shows up at their wedding. Needing money, Beni has agreed to work for Suarez smuggling migrant workers into California. When the appalling treatment the migrants receive drives Beni to rebel, Suarez abducts Leina. But Suarez, safe in Mexico and with Cooper's boss in his pocket, underestimates Cooper's outrage - with explosive results.

DVD00360
Captain Midnight
Sorry, this movie does not come with an offer of a Captain Midnight secret decoder ring, but it is the film version of the popular radio serial. It's WWII and America's defense efforts are being undermined by master criminal Ivan Shark and his gang of crooks. Both military and government are unable to stop the gang, so it falls to Captain Midnight, jet pilot, scientist, and crime fighter, to land The Shark. Some scenes with violence.

DVD00166
Captain Scarlett
In the turmoil following the defeat of the Emperor Napoleon, many former exiles return to France to find their localities ruled by petty tyrants, and their property appropriated by the tyrants' henchmen. Injustice is everywhere. And opposition means death. But one man, known for his billowing bright red cape and his stunning swordsmanship as Captain Scarlett laughs at the risk. Gathering a few loyal and fearless friends, he sets to depose the unscrupulous, upstart Duke who, with his private army, has imposed a reign of terror on the region. Richard Greene stars in this fast-paced British swashbuckler.

DVD00236
Cold Sweat
When a desperate band of cutthroats show up to collect a debt from his checkered past, the happy, laid-back life of fishing charter captain Joe Martin takes a swift turn toward disaster, and Joe breaks out in a cold sweat. To ensure his compliance, the gang, led by the worldly and ruthless Captain Ross holds Joe's lovely wife and their young daughter hostage. But Joe, pushed over the edge, is not about to give in without a struggle. With his loved ones' lives hanging in the balance, the mayhem escalates to a fiery conclusion.

DVD00368
Escape from Sobibor
This amazing tale of survival in a World War II concentration camp won two Golden Globes; as best TV mini-series of 1987 and another for Rutger Hauer as a Russian POW. The outstanding cast includes Alan Alda and Joanne Pacula.

DVD00422
Family Enforcer
A story about a neighborhood kid trying to get a job with the mob. Includes violence and coarse language.

DVD00065
Great Adventure
During the Gold Rush, two kids are befriended by a courageous German shepherd named Buck as they struggle through a Yukon winter to reach Dawson city. Joining forces with two prospectors, they manage to survive marauding wolves and murderous Indians. But when they reach their destination, they discover the whole town is under the thumb of a charming but ruthless saloon owner. With Buck, the young prospectors, and the newspaper they've inherited from their father, they set out to liberate the town.

DVD00327
The Green Glove
Down on his luck, former paratrooper Mike Blake returns to France to find the emerald encrusted Gauntlet of St. Elzear. During the war he prevented art thief and Nazi collaborator Count Paul Ron from stealing the religious relic. But Rona and his gang are also on the trail of the green glove. Romance blooms when Mike meets Chris Kenneth an attractive American tour guide. Then a mobster turns up dead in Mike's Paris hotel room; and the couple find themselves pursued by the police as they race the urbane but ruthless Rona to Monte Carlo in a desperate bid to recover the relic.

DVD00361
The Guy from Harlem
Crack private eye Al Connors saves an African Princess from assassination and saves a drug overlord's kidnapped daughter. He discovers that both crimes are the work of outlaw kingpin Big Daddy and his ruthless men. In the fight of his life, Connors shows the gang that they've more than met their match.

DVD00357
Hercules Unchained
Steve Reeves returns as Hercules, now married to the lovely Iole and traveling to Thebes to judge a dispute over the rights to the throne. Along the way, Hercules is seduced by the evil Queen Amphale whose drink makes him lose his memory. It all ends up in a great ruckus with sword fights, chariots and Hercules manfully tossing heavy furniture. Big fun in every way and a jewel in the crown of Steve Reeves' film career.

DVD00414
High Risk
John Stone and three pals parachute into the South American jungle, sneak into the compound of cocaine czar, crack his safe, steal all his money and escape into the jungle. Now they all have to do is get back home with their lives and the loot. Fleeing from the drug czar and his army, they fall into the hands of cutthroat banditos whose grinning grizzled chief has no intention of letting four gringos get away with $5,000,000 and neither does the vengeful drug czar.

DVD00250
King Solomon's Mines
High romance and adventure in the wilds of Central Africa in search of King Solomon's gold.

DVD00342
The Lady and the Highwayman
A bodice-ripping romp through England in the 1600s in which a royalist lord hides from the forces of Cromwell and becomes a good-hearted highwayman. When he rescues Lady Panthea they fall in love. Romance and intrigue ensue, along with some great swordfights.

DVD00259
Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
Only two clues exist to the whereabouts of Captain Flint's fabled treasure hoard. The wily old pirate Long John Silver has one, and his former shipmate young Jim Hawkins has the other.

DVD00308
Ministry of Vengeance
During his stint in Vietnam, Commando David Miller was forced to kill a young woman in self-defense. In consequence, he renounced war and became a minister. Now, years after, in the Rome airport David's beloved wife and young son are wantonly slaughtered by an Arab terrorist. Despairing of official help, David disavows his faith to seek his own vengeance. But in Lebanon he learns the Middle East situation is fraught with deadly contradiction and compromises.

DVD00315
Night of the Sharks
Ex-adventurer David Ziegler enjoys his quiet Mexican life as a beach bum in a Mexican resort. Until his brother shows up with a fortune in diamonds and a CD full of incriminating information on a multinational corporation. He barely has time to leave the diamonds and the CD in David's care before he is murdered. David immediately finds himself the target of the corrupt corporation, a vicious gang of cutthroats, and a blood-crazed great white shark with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. Mucho mayhem ensues in this twisted thriller.

DVD00405
One Way Out
Released from jail, Frank Logan returns home to find the bank has foreclosed on the family farm because his sweet but simple minded brother Snooky has been cheated of his wages by his boss. Frank plans to rob the boss with help from a former cellmate and the cellmate's ex-stripper girlfriend. But the plan goes badly awry; the boss gets shot and they are forced to flee after kidnapping a witness to the crime who also happens to be the estranged wife of the local sheriff. An escalating crime spree fuels their run for Mexico. Then deep in the heart of Texas, they find there is only one way out. Contains coarse language, violence and nudity.

DVD00335
Planet Outlaws
Buck Rogers is back-back to the future: frozen when his ship crashes near the North Pole, Buck is discovered and resuscitated five centuries later. He finds a futuristic world suffering under the ruthless thumb of Killer Kane, a criminal mastermind. Only a small group of beleaguered rebels, hidden in a mountain stronghold, continue to resist Kane's brutal domination. Buck conceives a daring plan to infiltrate the tyrant's organization. But Kane's no pushover, and saving civilization will take more than quick wits and quick fists. Is Buck up to the challenge? You bet!

DVD00407
Scott of the Antarctic
After a failed attempt in 1908 British explorer R. F. Scott returns to Antarctica in 1911, determined this time to reach the South Pole. After wintering in a base camp near the sea the expedition sets off on a grueling 1,000 mile trek to the Pole. Despite hardships, blizzards and rugged terrain they succeed. But now, for Scott of the Antarctic and his team, the real challenge begins: with dwindling supplies, failing strength and worsening weather they must complete the long hazardous trek back to their base camp before the polar night begins. High adventure and heroism in the face of adversity.

DVD00207
Sword of Lancelot
On order from King Arthur, Lancelot brings the king's betrothed Guinevere to Camelot. Pageantry! Romance! Swordfights!

DVD00351
The Treasure of Jamaica Reef
When a beautiful young woman acquires the salvage rights to a rich Spanish galleon that sank in the Caribbean several centuries ago, she gets three scuba-diving friends to join her in a thrilling and dangerous quest for the treasure of Jamaica Reef. But the four adventurers are not the only ones who know about the sunken galleon and the fortune in gold doubloons it carried. Two local "businessmen" track the quartet's every move so they can move in for the kill.

DVD00350
Undisputed
Serving a life sentence for murder, boxer Monroe Hutchen has become the California prison system's heavyweight champion with a record of 61 wins and no losses. Then world heavyweight champion George "Iceman" Chambers arrives to serve a sentence for rape. Tensions rise as Chambers displays his contempt for the inmates and their champ. When an aging mob boss and ring aficionado arranges a fight to the finish between the two heavyweights, the stage is set for one of the most brutal bouts ever fought - in or out of prison. Not for the faint-hearted. Violence and coarse language.

DVD00328
Vendetta for the Saint
Simon Templar is in a Naples bar when he witnesses a melee between two men. It appears that one of them has mistaken the other for an old colleague. The next morning he reads in the newspapers that one of the men has been murdered. His investigation drags him down into the world of the Sicilian Mafia, and nobody seems willing to help him.

Westerns

DVD00152
The Bells of San Angelo
Texas Border Ranger Roy Rogers takes on a gang of smugglers with the able assistance of Dale Evans, Andy Devine and Trigger. With all the fistfights, chases and shootouts, there's barely time for a few toe-tapping tunes. Great fun on the range.

DVD00138
The Big Trees
In the early 1900s, a self-serving timber baron joins forces with a Quaker congregation to fend off lethal claim jumpers.

DVD00143
Blood and Guns
During the Mexican Revolution, an Englishman, Dr. Henry Price, rescues a rebel leader, Tepepa, from a firing squad. The doctor soon finds himself embroiled in a last-ditch effort to save the revolution from a corrupted president and his henchmen, Colonel Cascorro. The price of freedom must be paid in blood and guns as Cascorro pursues Tepepa and his ragtag army of peons into the desert for a climatic showdown. The battle leaves Tepepa's life once again in the hands of the doctor, who has his own score to settle with the rebel leader.

DVD00099
Blue Steel/The Dawn Rider
In Blue Steel, John Wayne teams up with a crafty old sheriff to track down a notorious thief and stop a gang of outlaws from terrorizing the beleaguered citizens of a small town. In The Dawn Rider, John's father is killed by a ruthless gang of bandits during a bloody robbery at the Express Office. John vows to hunt down the gang and bring the man who pulled the trigger to justice. Fisticuffs and fast guns lead to a dramatic and deadly showdown.

DVD00690
Captain Kidd
1699: William Kidd, the notorious buccaneer, is at the height of his career - and the height of his ambition: returning to London with a hold full of plundered loot, he hires a valet to teach him noble manners and then sets out to buy his way into the House of Lords. But his path to a peerage proves perilous when he's opposed by his former pirate partners and then by a mysterious ex-convict. Treachery, mayhem and murder abound before Kidd finally presents himself in court to receive his just desserts.

DVD00087
Daniel Boone
In 1775, frontiersman Daniel Boone leads a company of settlers from Virginia into the wilderness called Kentucky to start a new colony. Along the way, one of the men is exposed as a coward and sent back to civilization. The settlers carve a palisade settlement from the wilderness and plant their crops - only to learn that the coward has stolen the title to their land. Daniel goes back to Richmond to plead their case. But on his way home, he's captured by a sadistic renegade and his native followers, who are massing to attack the unsuspecting settlers.

DVD00151
The Deadly Companions
A disreputable gunfighter and ex-cavalry officer accidentally kills the young son of a dancehall entertainer. To atone, he escorts the boy's funeral procession through dangerous Apache territory.

DVD00355
Jory
When his lawyer father is brutally killed in a saloon fight, 15-year-old Jory has to learn how to fend for himself. By good fortune, he's hired on by a trail boss, Roy, whose young sidekick, Jocko, takes a liking to the boy. Roy has a big herd of horses he has to get to Texas. So begins a great adventure. From Jocko, the boy learns how to handle guns, horses, booze, and gals. From Roy, he learns how to handle himself. And by the time they reach Texas he's well on the way to becoming a man and earning his place.

DVD00223
The Lawless Frontier/Hell Town
A double bill of Vintage John Wayne westerns. In "The Lawless Frontier" Wayne seeks the outlaw who killed his father, with help from a grizzled miner and his lovely grand-daughter. In "Hell Town" he signs on as ramrod for a cattle drive, running into the trail and a rigged card game at the end of it.

DVD00063
Little Big Man
This film is a breathtaking and heartbreaking epic of life among the Cheyenne as told by Jack Crabbe, who is 121 years old. Crabbe has survived gunfights, quack medicine, Indian attacks, Prairie weather, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and two marriages.

DVD00062
A Man Called Horse
In 1825, English nobleman John Morgan is captured by the Sioux. Held as a slave, he is gifted to a widow in the tribe the way one would give a horse, which is how he gets his name. Morgan struggles with his English prejudices of "savages" and suffers terribly. He is helped by another white captive to learn the Sioux language and begins to see the wisdom in the ways on the tribe.

DVD00287
McLintock!
Cattle baron George Washington McLintock could tame the West--but could he tame his wife and daughter?

DVD00311
Molly & Lawless John
Married to the sheriff in a small western town, Molly's life is a dreary one. Her husband ignores her and they have no children. Yearning for love, she's vulnerable to the charms of a handsome young outlaw being held in jail on bank robbery and murder charges. And he convinces her to run away with him. She soon learns he's only used her to escape hanging. But with no way back, Molly decides to stick with him, hoping - as they run from the law, tangle with the Apaches, and adopt an orphaned infant - that he'll learn to love her.

DVD00326
My Outlaw Brother
Spunky and quick on the lip, Denny O'Moore, a young Eastern greenhorn, journeys to the West to find his long lost brother Patrick. When the trail leads south of the border, he teams up with Joe Warner, a Texas Ranger assigned to root out a murderous gang of Mexican raiders. They soon discover Patrick has ties to the gang. Their refusal to be warned off by threats and then assault puts them in mortal danger and leads to a deadly final showdown between Denny and his brother.

DVD00212
The Outlaw
This classic intertwines three legends of the old west: gambler and gunslinger Doc Holliday, his best friend Sheriff Pat Garrett, and sweet-tempered, cold-blooded Billy the Kid.

DVD00306
Rage at Dawn
Terrorizing 1866 Indiana, the Reno brother's gang uses the town of Seymour as a safe haven, paying off three crooked town officials. Sent in to clean up the gang is Peterson Detective Agency operative James Barlow, who poses as an outlaw to gain the confidence of the officials and the thick-headed brothers. Complicating matters are Barlow's feelings for the Reno sister, Laura, who reluctantly keeps house for the boys out of family loyalty. Events heat up and rage surfaces as Barlow sets up the gang in a dawn train robbery.

DVD00262
Rainbow Valley / 'Neath the Arizona Skies
In Rainbow Valley, John Martin is a government agent working under cover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Butch Galt who blows Martin's cover. In 'Neath Arizona Skies, Chris Morrell, the guardian of Indian girl Nina, is helping her track down her missing father.

DVD00061
Rio Lobo
There are Westerns and then there are John Wayne Westerns; this is one of the latter. John Wayne is a retired Union Colonel searching for the Confederate soldiers who robbed his unit of a shipment of gold. The trail leads to the dusty little town of Rio Lobo, full of classic characters and solid Western action.

DVD00413
The Shooting
After a mysterious "incident" leaves 2 people dead and another a fugitive, a willful young woman enlists 3 cowboys in a relentless quest for revenge.

DVD00302
Stagecoach
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft, Andy Devine and John Carradine star in this classic Oscar-winning Western from director John Ford about a group of travelers forced to journey through Apache territory. Great performances and a stirring musical score.

DVD00064
True Grit: A Further Adventure
Marshall "Rooster" Cogburn, battles injustice in his own quirky way. He has his hands full when a teenage girl he's protecting gets set on reforming him.

Horror Movies

DVD00077
Carnival of Souls
After miraculously surviving a deadly car crash, young Mary Henry quickly packs up and moves. With a place in a rooming house and a proper job as a church organist, Mary has hopes that she can put the tragedy behind her. But something far more sinister seems to have followed her. Soon, Mary becomes obsessed with a nearby abandoned carnival pavilion. Drawn to it by a mysterious power that is somehow connected to an unearthly stalker, Mary fights desperately to regain control of her life - and her vanishing sanity.

DVD00094
Creature from Black Lake
After hearing reports that a Louisiana trapper has been killed deep in the bayous by a large shaggy monster, two anthropology students mount an expedition to locate the Creature from Black Lake. Arriving in the nearest town, they find the residents in denial - unwilling to talk about the killing or even admit to the beast's existence. They're about to give up and go home when the partner of the murdered trapper points them toward the monster's lair. Following his direction deep into the bayous, they discover how badly they've underestimated the creature's strength, ferocity and thirst for blood.

DVD00418
The Flesh and The Fiends
In 1828 Edinburgh, Doctor Robert Knox needs a supply of cadavers for his ground breaking research into human anatomy. Chilling but true, this is the story of two men who are happy to provide him corpses. Then they make a mistake.

DVD00412
Haunts
The bloody slaying of a teenage girl strikes fear into the heart of a small farming community. The local sheriff fields numerous calls from alarmed women, including one from a lovely Swedish immigrant, Ingrid, who has narrowly escaped an attack from the ski masked killer. When the killer strikes again, Ingrid finds the mutilated corpse in her backyard. Deeply disturbed by the slayings and haunted by a jumble of repressed childhood memories, she descends into a private hell where violent sexual fantasies mix with terrifying hallucinations and brutal reality. Not for the faint of heart.

DVD00416
Horror Express
When Professor Alexander Saxton comes upon a long frozen missing link in northern Russia he believes he has made the greatest scientific discovery of his time. After carefully crating the creatures remains he starts the long journey home on the Trans-Siberian Express. But in the warmth of the baggage car the unearthly creature thaws and incredibly comes back to life. It then goes on a murderous rampage. As the carnage and the terror spread, he joins forces with a scientist and a Cossack captain in a desperate attempt to stop the supernatural monster. Definitely not for the squeamish, this horrifying drama contains nudity as well as violence.

DVD00255
Horror Hotel
A history professor, member of a witches' coven, provides the victims for blood sacrifices to the Devil whenever the moon is full. His latest find, a pretty co-ed interested in witchcraft, learns much more than she wanted.

DVD00417
The House by the Cemetery
To complete a research project, a young history professor moves with his wife and their 5-year-old son to a small town in New England. From the outside, the rambling old Victorian mansion they rent on the outskirts of town is charming and picturesque. But inside, down in the depths of the basement, the house by the cemetery shelters an undying horror: a dreadful, barely human creature that lurks in the dark, and has succored itself for three centuries on human flesh.

DVD00248
House on Haunted Hill
An eccentric millionaire and his bewitching wife invite 5 imperfect strangers to spend a night with them in a large, creepy old mansion. Their reward is $10,000. All they must do is survive until the next morning.

DVD00102
Human Monster
A series of strange deaths takes place in London. All are accidents but the victims are single men with no family and all have a link to a life insurance company run by the mysterious Dr. Orloff (Bela Lugosi). Scotland Yard assigns D.I. Larry Holt to the case and he receives help from the daughter of one of the victims.

DVD00401
Just Before Dawn
When five twenty-somethings decide on a camping trip deep in the mountains of Oregon they choose to ignore the warnings of the local Forest Ranger about the potential dangers in that remote area. The young campers are simply looking to enjoy the great outdoors: hikes, picnics, skinny dips by day, drinking around the campfire and telling scary stories at night. But fun soon turns to fear when they discover a huge mountain man is stalking them - with bloody mayhem in his deranged mind and a razor sharp machete in his hand. Contains coarse language, nudity and violence.

DVD00214
Night of the Living Dead
A small group of people find themselves besieged in an isolated farmhouse by a horde of ravening un-humans. Made in 1968, George Romero's classic horror movie continues to frighten, shock, and disturb audiences. Don't start it unless you're prepared to be scared witless.

DVD00334
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
When an undercover agent dies after escaping from a Satanic cult, Scotland Yard and the British Secret Service turn for help to an occultist, Professor Larimer Van Helsing. The Professor soon uncovers a diabolical Doomsday plot hatched by his arch enemy, Count Dracula. With the help of a cadre of powerful men who are in his thrall, the Count intends to unleash a virulent new strain of bubonic plague that will annihilate all of humanity in a matter of days. And it will take more than a silver bullet to stop him. This classic horror film from the Hammer studios contains nudity and violence.

DVD00134
Shadow of the Vampire
Obsessed with capturing reality on film, famed German director Friedrich Murnau sets out to make the most frightening vampire movie ever. His star, a spectral creature with strange appetites, soon reveals a commitment to realism that exceeds even Murnau's.

DVD00392
Snowbeast
Fear stalks a Colorado town when a teenaged skier's half-eaten body turns up in an abandoned barn near a ski resort. Dreading the effect the gruesome attack will have on the upcoming winter carnival, the resort owner wants to cover it up. But when more lethal attacks follow, her grandson enlists the help of a champion skier, his reporter wife, and the sheriff. Together they set out to track down and kill the abominable creature, which proves more cunning and ferocious than they imagined.

DVD00208
The Terror
A young officer in Napoleon's army becomes separated from his regiment and stumbles upon the ghoulish happenings at Castle Von Leppe.

War Stories

DVD00148
Arch of Triumph
After Ravic, a German doctor, is tortured in a concentration camp by a vicious Gestapo offers he flees to pre-WWII Paris. There he dreams of revenge on the Nazi who disfigured him and murdered his lover while he ekes out a sparse living as an illegal surgeon. One night, Ravic encounters beautiful Joan Madou on a bridge, and convinces her not to kill herself. The two begin a blissful love affair, until Ravic spots his nemesis on a Paris street, and risks his newfound happiness to avenge the horrors of his past.

DVD00145
The Big Lift
In 1948, the Soviet Union blockades the Allied sectors of Berlin to bring the entire city under their control. A semi-documentary about the resulting Berlin Airlift gives way to stories of two fictitious U.S. Air Force participants: Sgt. Hank Kowalski, whose hatred of Germans proves resistant to change, and Sgt. Danny McCullough, whose pursuit of an attractive German war widow gives him a crash course in the steamy side of occupied Berlin.

DVD00683
Black Brigade
As the Allies push into Germany, a U.S. Army Captain is ordered to prevent the retreating Germans from blowing up a dam and stalling the Allied advance. The Captain's prejudices start to show when he learns he's expected to complete this difficult and dangerous mission with the Black Brigade, a unit composed of entirely black GIs. Then he discovers it's a service unit normally assigned to digging trenches and latrines with no combat experience and next to no discipline. But they're all he's got and time is running out.

DVD00130
Breakthrough
Near the end of World War II, a war-weary German sergeant becomes involved in an anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American officer.

DVD00164
The Casablanca Express
At the height of WWII, Winston Churchill arrives in North Africa en route to a top level meeting in Casablanca. When Allied intelligence learns the Luftwaffe intends to intercept his flight, they change plans at the last minute and send Churchill by train. Big mistake: in the middle of the desert, the Casablanca Express is hijacked by Nazi commandos. With Churchill's life and outcome of the war at stake, the Allies only hope lies with three undercover agents on the train.

DVD00161
Cavalry Command
1902: after the Spanish-American war leaves the Philippines under American control, a troop of U.S. Cavalry is sent to garrison San Pasqual on the island of Luzon. Their mission is to restore order and protect the town from a rebel Filipino Army captain on one side, and a band of marauding renegade natives, on the other. The troopers are met with suspicion and sullenness. But over time their commitment, good will and helpfulness earn the townspeople's respect and support. Then the captain foments an uprising and the troopers are caught in the middle. Filmed on location, this searching look at two cultures has surprising depth.

DVD00369
Drums in the Deep South
Georgia, 1861. The tranquil life of Kathy Summers, mistress of a flourishing plantation, is shadowed by a visit from two old friends, Will Denning and Clay Clayburn. Will and Clay met at West Point; and Clay and Kathy have been lovers. Three years later, as drums in the Deep South signal Sherman's entry into Georgia, the twisting strands of fate bring the three together again. Clay, a Confederate major, is assigned to blow up a crucial rail line in order to delay the Union advance. Will, a Union officer, is ordered to wipe out the Rebel threat. And Kathy, caught in the middle, tries desperately to keep her friends from killing each other.

DVD00068
Eyes in the Night
Nazi spies posing as servants infiltrate the household of Norma Lawry and her husband, Stephen the inventor of a top-secret formula vital to the American war effort. Norma calls in blind private detective Captain Duncan Maclain and Friday, his canny guide dog, to solve a murder that implicates both her and her rebellious stepdaughter. As Maclain investigates, he discovers the Nazi plot to steal the formula, and battles to thwart the German agents.

DVD00089
Fighting Sullivans
Growing up in Iowa during the Depression, the five Sullivan boys have a charmed and cheerful childhood, despite the hardships of the era. All for one and one for all in their games and adventures, they happily take on anyone who threatens their inseparable bond. With the outbreak of WWII, they all join the Navy - and receive special permission to serve together in the same ship. Months later, aboard the cruiser Juneau off the Solomon Islands, disaster strikes.

DVD00298
Go For Broke!
1943. In spite of the racial prejudice that led to the detention of their families in relocations camps, Japanese Americans eagerly volunteer for service in special units formed by the United States Army. Battling through Italy and France, they earn an unprecedented number of honors, both as the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and individually. Causalities are high as their courage is displayed again and again. Go For Broke! is the story of a platoon of fun loving but fearless Nisel led by a Haole Officer. Van Johnson turns in a sterling performance as Lt. Grayson, who overcomes his innate prejudice to become a proud and effective officer with the unit.

DVD00431
Gung Ho!
Based on an historic raid, this early World War II film stars Randolph Scott as a career marine colonel charged with creating an elite strike force for a secret military operation. Among the disparate band of volunteers is a young Robert Mitchum. Gung Ho! follows the formation of the Second Marine Raider Battalion beginning just seven weeks after Pearl Harbor. After a grueling training program and a perilous submarine voyage to the South Pacific, the Raiders are landed at night on Makin Island, an important Japanese outpost. The dramatic battle that ensues is a reply to Pearl Harbor and a bloody foretaste of the war to come.

DVD00421
The Immortal Battalion
Soon after the British entry into WWII, Lt. Jim Perry is assigned to forge a motley group of civilian conscripts into an effective fighting force in short order. His no nonsense drill sergeant puts the raw recruits through a rigorous basic training. But there is more to combat readiness than training exercises. Will the men stand together under fire? The answer comes in North Africa when they face a major German advance.

DVD00399
KGB: The Secret War
Peter Hubbard is a Soviet agent with deep cover, a useful job in the U.S. aerospace industry and too much knowledge for his own good. When he learns his KGB masters are setting him up for elimination, he decides to save himself and the woman he loves by making a deal with U.S. Counterintelligence. But his masters have a terrible weapon to bring him to heel: the young son he thought has been killed in a car crash six years before. A suspenseful and intriguing thriller based on actual characters and incidents involved in KGB operation in the United States.

DVD00240
The Lady Vanishes
When an elderly woman vanishes during a train journey from Switzerland to England, her existence is questioned. A young man and young woman investigate.

DVD00107
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
This is the remarkable tale of an extraordinary gentleman, General Clive Wynne-Candy. From his career as a dashing young officer nicknamed "Sugar" to his lifelong friendship with a romantic rival and finally to his rescue of that same old friend in WWII England.

DVD00242
Night Train to Munich
When a Nazi agent captures a Czech scientist, a dashing young British intelligence officer attempts to save the scientist and his lovely daughter from Hitler's clutches.

DVD00291
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
A downed British aircrew undertakes a perilous journey through wartime Europe to freedom.

DVD00054
Shattered City: Vol. I
At the height of WWI, an aging freighter overloaded with TNT and inflammable benzol for the Allied war effort, steams toward Halifax harbor-and the most devastating pre-atomic explosion in history. Meanwhile, home on leave, Captain Charles Collins tries to enjoy the holiday season with his family.

DVD00055
Shattered City: Vol. II
The fire on the deck of the aging munitions ship spreads, until the entire vessel explodes in a blinding flash. The blast obliterates much of the north end of Halifax, killing and wounding thousands. But gradually, with help, the survivors, including Capt. Charlie Collins, rally and rebuild.

DVD00303
Spitfire
The true, inspiring story of Reginald J. Mitchell the man who devoted his life to designing and developing the Spitfire--the legendary fighter plane that, early in World War II, helped the RAF win the crucial Battle of Britain.

Comedy

DVD00423
The Admiral Was a Lady
With WWII over at last, ex-WAVE Jean Madison returns stateside and encounters Jerry Stevens, a wise cracking ex-bomber pilot. Jerry and his goldbricking flyboy pals are aces at scrounging freebies and collecting unemployment checks to avoid the humdrum horrors of a regular job. They soon learn the Jean's fiance Henry has jilted her for a dame named Shirley, who happens to be the wife of millionaire juke box king Peter Pedigrew. Pedigrew threatens to put Jerry and his crew to work unless they keep Jean around long enough to lure Henry away from his wife. Hilarious results ensue.

DVD00153
Animal Kingdom
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.

DVD00125
The Delicate Art of Parking
Furious with Vancouver's parking authorities for giving him thousands of dollars worth of tickets and constantly towing his car, independent filmmaker Lonny Goosen seeks revenge by creating a hilarious documentary that taps into the public's growing antagonism toward the parking systems and its minions. But the documentary takes an unexpected turn when Lonny and his small crew find themselves embroiled in parking enforcement crisis and personally involved in the lives of Grant Parker, Vancouver's silver medal parking enforcer, and Murray Schwartz, the acknowledged guru of Buddhist-based parking enforcement.

DVD00270
Doll Face
Doll Face Carroll is a burlesque queen who is too tough for genuine stage parts. Her manager and boyfriend, Mike Hannegan, hires a ghost writer so Doll Face can writer her autobiography and get some class. Hannegan doesn't count on Doll Face and her collaborator having more than a book on their minds.

DVD00681
Eternally Yours
Anita Halstead, engaged to Don Barnes, was swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Now she's his wife and stage assistant on a world tour that never ends. Finally, Anita has enough and divorces Arturo to marry Don. They're very happy, but... presto! Arturo's not finished.

DVD00282
The Fat Spy
A boatload of teenagers is headed to a private island off the coast of Florida for a scavenger hunt. The island's wealthy owner is unhappy about that, and dispatches his daughter to the island to get rid of them. She's happy to go because her sweetie, Irving, is the island's only resident. A zany spoof from the sixties, complete with the fountain of youth and a mermaid.

DVD00281
Father's Little Dividend
The newlyweds from "Father of the Bride" are having a baby, and the grandfather-to-be isn't looking forward to it.

DVD00265
The Front Page
Can an ace reporter give up the scoop of a lifetime for love and marriage? Not if his manipulative editor has anything to do with it! This riotous look at the newspaper world by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur has won awards on stage and screen.

DVD00317
The Great Rupert
Things look bleak for Jimmy, an out of work vaudeville performer with a wife and daughter to support and no place to live. Then, just before the snow flies they manage to find a garage apartment that's barely big enough for the three of them. And their spirits are soon revived by a squirrel, the Great Rupert. From his nest in the attic, Rupert begins to shower them with money retrieved from the hiding place of a miser who lives next door. So much money that they give some to deserving charities and rescue neighborhood businesses from failing. This magical, light-hearted musical comedy will please the whole family.

DVD00426
Green Grow the Rushes
On the basis of an ancient charter granted by King Henry III, a small coastal town stubbornly asserts its independence from British law, especially the Inland Revenue service. But battle lines are drawn after ministry bureaucrats descend on the town to sniff out its profitable smuggling industry. When a storm strands a fishing boat that is loaded to the gunwales with smuggled cognac, the eccentric captain, a young smuggler, and a local reporter enlist the townsfolk in a hilarious scheme to protect their livelihood by imbibing the evidence before it can be seized.

DVD00266
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.

DVD00101
Happy Go Lovely
American chorus girl Janet Jones is in Edinburgh hoping to be discovered in the new musical being mounted by impresario John Frost. But when the flamboyant producer throws a tantrum at rehearsal, Janet quits. With his creditors closing in, Frosty fears all may be lost. Enter Scotland's richest businessman, B.G. Bruno. When his chauffer gives Janet a lift, rumors of romance abound, and Frosty offers Janet the lead - if she can get Bruno on board. But Bruno wants no part of it... until he meets the lovely Miss Jones.

DVD00256
Hi Diddle Diddle
What do you get when you mix up newlyweds, opera divas, rigged roulette games, ingenious stock scams and a sexy, sassy singer? A downright hilarious movie with a crackerjack cast and more plot twists than a pretzel.

DVD00254
His Girl Friday
Comedy about a big city newspaper editor and his star reporter who is ready to quit journalism and get married until a scoop materializes.

DVD00415
Honeymoon in Bali
Life changes for Gail Allen, an all work and no play New York business woman, when she finds herself falling for easygoing, fun-loving Bill Bennett, who runs a plantation in the South Seas. Determined not to let her heart interfere with her career, Gail rejects Bill and he returns home. With help from her friends Gail soon realize life without Bill has lost its appeal and she takes off for Bali to win him back. But when she arrives at the plantation she discovers the course of true love does not run smooth. The plantation owner's lovely daughter has persuaded Bill to marry her. A deft romantic comedy.

DVD00221
The Inspector General
Danny Kaye shines as a kind-hearted fool mistaken for a Russian inspector general in this delightful musical comedy based on Gogol's classic play.

DVD00322
Love that Boy
Phoebe is neurotically overachieving university student who refuses to make allowances for other people's lack of drive and determination. Set on winning the school's Outstanding Student Award, her days are planned around an unusual "to do before graduation list." When her long suffering friend and housemate decides to leave, she points out that Phoebe's list lacks an important experience: a boyfriend. Anxious to round out her paint by numbers life, Phoebe sets out with her usual focus to fill the gap. And to everyone's surprise she ends up falling in love in this off-beat comedy.

DVD00115
Madigan's Million
When an American gangster gets killed in Rome just after stashing his bankroll, an inept but utterly dedicated U.S. Treasury agent is sent over to locate the loot. It's a whole new world for him, one fraught with frustrations and surprises. Of course, he's hardly the only one looking for the money. The Rome police, several former associates, plus the members of a rival mob are all hot on the trail. And then there's the gangster's gorgeous daughte...

DVD00253
My Favorite Brunette
Mistaken by a sultry, dark-eyed beauty for the private eye in the next office, a bumbling photographer agrees to search for her missing uncle.

DVD00213
My Man Godfrey
A zany rich family hires a tramp to be their butler, and then discover he's richer than they are.

DVD00288
The Milky Way
After newspapers mistakenly report that the middle-weight boxing champ has been KO'd by a mild-mannered milkman the champ's manager decides to build the milkman into a contender for a rematch. Wisecracks and surprises abound in this classic display of Lloyd's comic genius.

DVD00434
Never Wave at a WAC
As the daughter of a prominent senator, Jo McBain is a leading Washington socialite with a rich-and-famous lifestyle and a handsome new man who's a colonel in the Army. Then, to be near him, Jo joins the WACs. She soon discovers, with hilarious results, that basic training is quite different from the pampered existence she's used to. They don't even have servants! To make matters even worse-and funnier-her ex-husband, an Army consultant, manages to disrupt her romantic plans by making her test new equipment under the most adverse conditions. Sparks fly in this fast-paced military comedy.

DVD00112
Over-the-Hill Gang
Long retired and restless, former Texas Ranger Captain Oren Hayes visits a town where his son-in-law faces an unfair and dangerous fight for the Mayor's office with the villainous incumbent. The Captain calls for the help of his three best men but they've all seen better days. Using their wits as their guns in this rollicking western, these old-timers just might beat the corrupt town leaders and outlaws.

DVD00321
Parsley Days
Comely Kate teaches bicycle maintenance. Her boyfriend Ollie is a birth-control counselor. Together since high school, the couple is the envy of their friends and the pride of their families. Trouble is Kate is pregnant and no longer in love with Ollie. When she opts not to tell him about the pregnancy, her friend Chloe prescribes mega doses of parsley to induce an herbal abortion. During her Parsley Days, Kate struggles to find a gentle way to break up with Ollie - who makes it all the harder by being so loving and considerate and who, it turns out, has a surprising secret of his own. This bitter sweet, whimsical, romantic comedy contains coarse language.

DVD00267
Passport to Pimlico
A store proprietor discovers an ancient treaty establishing London's Pimlico district as part of the Duchy of Burgundy. Hilarious chaos erupts as residents of Pimlico learn they are subject to French, not British, law.

DVD00439
Perpetrators of the Crime
It seems like such a simple plan. College student Charles Jones and his housemates Phil and Ed will use spring break to kidnap a co-ed and demand a hefty ransom from her wealthy father. But as the perpetrators of the crime soon discover, even the simplest of plans can go awry. Is it really possible to snatch the wrong girl? What happens when the mastermind loses track of his minions and their victim? And what kind of father would demand to see a body part before he's willing to even consider handing over the ransom? Tori Spelling has a fine turn as the demanding space cadet who's mistakenly snatched in this wildly offbeat comedy of errors.

DVD00296
Road to Bali
Two American vaudeville performers wind up on a South Sea island where they vie for the favor of gorgeous Princess Lala while crooning, spooning and buffooning their way around headhunters, a volcano, a giant squid and a smitten gorilla.

DVD00110
Second Chorus
Danny and Hank, a pair of brash young trumpet players, have carved out a pleasant niche for themselves playing with a popular college band and competing with each other constantly on and off the bandstand. Then they meet Ellen, a lovely brunette with a talent for getting things done. Totally smitten, they con her into working as the band's manager-only to have her lured away by famous bandleader Artie Shaw. Pursuing her to New York, Danny and Hank vie for her affections and a place in Shaw's band with hilarious results.

DVD00109
Stage Door Canteen
On the eve of shipping out to the battlefields of Europe, three young soldiers fall for hostesses at New York City's recreational center for servicemen-the fabled Stage Door Canteen where Broadway performers volunteer to entertain the boys in uniform.

DVD00158
Topper Returns
Banker Cosmo Topper and the ghostly Kirby set out to solve a murder, with hilarious results.

DVD00425
Touch of Pink
Far removed from his conservative Muslim family, young Alim lives happily in London with his fair haired lover Giles. He also enjoys the company of his imaginary friend Cary Grant who is always ready with support and tart advice. When Alim's mother arrives to persuade him to come home for a cousins wedding, Alim panics and asks Giles to pose as his roommate. But Giles tires of this ruse and Alim is obliged to choose between him and his family in this engaging ethnic comedy.

DVD00331
Two of Hearts
Depressed about life as a dateless divorcee, Molly impulsively attends her ex-husband's wedding to another woman. Upset by the ceremony, Molly retreats to a bar next door to nurse her nerves, where she meets handsome piano player Jake and pours out her troubles to him, unaware that he's divorced from her ex-husband's new bride. When Molly and Jake begin dating, their families meet and mix like oil and water, making it harder and harder for the two to stay together despite their strong mutual attraction. An off-beat romantic comedy with more than its share of surprises.

DVD00159
Utopia
Stan & Ollie inherit an island, and a yacht to get them there. After banning all taxes and laws from their private utopia, they enjoy an idyllic existence--until the discovery of uranium prompts a flood of lawless treasure seekers.

DVD00183
Who is Cletis Tout?
When a forger named Finch escapes from jail with a diamond thief, new personas are their first order of business. With the help of a pathologist who owes Finch a favor, they assume the identities of some recently deceased morgue residents. But, unbeknownst to Finch, his identity belongs to a man on the mob's hit list. To nail him, the mob hires legendary hit man Critical Jim. Jim's only weakness is a good yarn; and Finch, with his life at stake, rises to the challenge in this funny, fast-paced, twist-laden thriller. Violence and coarse language.

Television

The Andy Griffith Show

DVD00692
Andy Griffith Show: Volume One
Four episodes of the famed TV series with Andy Griffith as the Sheriff of Mayberry. "Dogs, Dogs, Dogs:" Sherriff Andy feeds a stray dog the lunch made for Barney. The stray dog returns with 10 friends and the fun begins. "Barney's First Car:" Deputy Barney buys his first car from a sweet little old lady. Turns out she's the head of a car theft ring! "The Darlings are Coming" features the musical Darling family. Includes "the Great Filling Station Robbery."

Gunsmoke

DVD00116
The Long Ride
Marshall Matt Dillon is arrested at his daughter's wedding on trumped up murder charges. With a posse after him, he must stay alive long enough to find the real killer.

DVD00117
One Man's Justice
A young man pursues the men who killed his mother in a stagecoach robbery. Marshall Matt Dillon rides out to stop the youth before the gang can kill him.

DVD00118
Return to Dodge
A violent killer comes to Dodge seeking vengeance on the people who sent him to jail for 12 years: Marshall Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty.

DVD00119
To the Last Man
Marshall Matt Dillon tracks rustlers who killed his friend and finds himself up against the masked vigilante gangs of the historic 1880 Pleasant Valley War.

DVD00124
The Last Apache
Marshall Matt Dillon goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of Apache chief Geronimo out of the fort stockade and offers them in trade.

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

DVD00011
A Great Deliverance
Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth Earl of Asherton, and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers are investigating the murder of a Yorkshire man. Obese Roberta Teys was found sitting by the headless corpse of her father. Her first words were, "I did it. And I'm not sorry." Was it because of the incestuous abuse she and her sister endured?

DVD00012
Missing Joseph
A rural vicar is poisoned. Lynley and Havers must figure out who killed him and why.

DVD00013
For the Sake of Elena
Scotland Yard detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers are assigned to the murder case of a Cambridge college student Elena Weaver, who was killed during her morning run along the river. Why had she told her running partner--her stepmother--that she was not running that morning? Or had someone else used the visual display telephone, pretending to be the deaf Elena?

DVD00014
Payment in Blood
A playwright is murdered in her sleep the night before her play opens. Can Lynley and Havers solve the murder in spite of Lynley's feelings for a woman involved with the key suspect?

DVD00015
Well-schooled in Murder
A student from a prestigious school is murdered under bizarre circumstances. Can Lynley and Havers find the murderer before more students come into harm's way?

The Lucy Show

DVD00173
The Lucy Show
The irrepressible Lucille Ball stars, with Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon, in these four, never to be forgotten episodes of the Lucy Show. "The Starmaker" features Frankie Avalon as a budding singer working in his uncle's bank. In "Lucy meets Robert Goulet" she promotes a truck driver as the singer's look-alike. "Lucy's Barbershop Quartet" features Hans Conried as a voice coach with the challenge of turning Lucy into a passable member of the group; while Dick Martin guest stars as a neighbor in the hilarious "Lucy and Vivian Shower."

MacGyver

DVD00120
Lost Treasure of Atlantis
In this made-for0TV movie based on the popular series, MacGyver and his former college professor travel from London to the Balkans and finally to an underground lagoon in Greece. On assignment for the mysterious Phoenix Foundation, they're seeking the Lost Treasure of Atlantis.

DVD00121
Pilot Episode
This is it; the series that led the way to big changes in television. This first episode introduces us to Richard Dean Anderson as MacGyver, the cool and witty hero who won't carry a gun. An underground lab is destroyed by a mysterious blast. MacGyver is sent in to rescue the trapped scientists and stop a deadly chemical leak.

DVD00122
Trail to Doomsday
MacGyver, who refuses to carry a gun during his exploits, must stop a terrorist plot holding the world hostage.

Mystery (series)

DVD00025
Second Sight 1
This taut psychological thriller introduces Ross Tanner, a hotshot police detective who lives for the thrill of the chase -- while desperate to conceal a terrifying secret: he's losing his vision.

DVD00027
Second Sight 2--Hide and Seek
Tanner's increasingly intimate relationship with Detective Inspector Tully is put to the test as they attempt to unravel the brutal murder of a renowned violinist. Tanner must devise some unorthodox strategies to reveal what his eyes can't show him.

DVD00028
Second Sight 2--Parasomnia
The daughter of a powerful lord wakes up covered in blood. Then police discover her fiancee, bludgeoned to death in his apartment. As Tanner gropes for clues in the night, his new deputy Jack Boyd suspects him of alcoholism, and wants him tossed from the unit.

DVD00029
Second Sight 2--Kingdom of the Blind
Tanner is caught in the middle of a war between black youths and neo-Nazis. While investigating the murder of a young activist, Tanner's son disappears-now the case is personal.

DVD00037
Touching Evil 2--The Caregiver
Lovingly washed, white-shrouded corpses are turning up across Europe, each with a neat hole in the skull. Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan and his partner D.I. Susan Taylor are on the trail of a profoundly disturbed relief worker whose nightmares of atrocities committed in Bosnia impel him to erase the memories of fellow aides -- permanently.

DVD00038
Touching Evil 2--A Pupil of Murder
Before slaying and scalping victims - always a young woman - a serial killer e-mails his intentions to tabloid reporter David Laney.

DVD00039
Touching Evil 2--What Price a Child?
Annie Jordan kidnaps the child she says was coerced from her in a baby-brokering scheme.

DVD00040
Touching Evil 3, Episode One
Maverick police detective Dave Creegan is back on the job as a member of London's Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC), an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society. Along with his stalwart partner D.I. Susan Taylor, Creegan squares off against some of England's most dangerous criminals. Creegan, back on the job, having recovered from a nervous breakdown, is determined to clear the name of a man he helped convict--a tough task given that the murders began again once the suspected killer got out of jail. Creegan and Taylor have to scramble to figure out the true motive of the killer, especially after the killer cuts to the heart of the OSC.

DVD00041
Touching Evil 3, Episode Two
Maverick police detective Dave Creegan is back on the job as a member of London's Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC), an elite, rapid-response crime squad. A brazen new serial killer terrorizes the city by setting his victims on fire. To gain insight on this frightening predator, DI Susan Taylor interviews a man behind bars incarcerated for the same reason, but she and Creegan follow a variety of blind leads. With the clock ticking, will Creegan crack the case before he gets burned?

Sherlock Holmes

DVD00071
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arch-criminal Professor Moriarty taunts Sherlock Holmes by saying that he'll retire after committing the greatest crime of his career. Then he orchestrates a bizarre murder to serve as a fiendish diversion for the great detective. While Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson are sidetracked by the deadly crime, Moriarity pursues his true goal - a brilliant scheme to stun the world with the theft of England's most precious fortune!

DVD00072
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Following the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville on his estate, Sherlock Holmes receives a visit from a doctor who believes that supernatural forces are at work. He tells of a local legend predicting that the family will be haunted by a giant hound because of the foul misdeed of Sir Hugo, their ancient ancestor. When a young heir arrives to claim his inheritance, he immediately receives death threats, and a ghostly hound is heard howling on the moors which surround Baskerville House. With help from Dr. Watson, Holmes goes undercover to solve the case.

DVD00172
Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes are murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.

DVD00075
The House of Fear
Approaching retirement, seven wealthy men, all members of "The Good Comrades" have chosen to live together at Drearcliff House, a remote and rambling manor on the Scottish coast. All is well until one evening at supper one of the members receives an envelope containing some orange pips. That very night he dies a grisly death. When another envelope with pips preceded the death of a second member, the survivors appeal to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. But even the famous detective seems unable to prevent the violent deaths that claim the remaining companions one by one.

DVD00081
Pearl of Death
The Borgia Pearl has earned a sinister reputation for bringing terminal misfortune to its owner. When the giant gem is stolen from the Royal Regent Museum while under Sherlock Holmes' protection, the master sleuth is honor-bound to track down the master criminal responsible for the theft and recover the prize. A series of brutal but seemingly unrelated murders are the only clues. But they soon put Holmes on the trail of the thief and his accomplices, a beautiful woman and huge, menacing brute known as the Creeper.

DVD00080
Pursuit to Algiers
When their king is assassinated, representatives of the monarchy of Ravenia implore Sherlock Holmes to safeguard Nikolas, the endangered heir, on his journey home from Britain. Holmes promises that he and Dr. Watson will ensure the young prince will reach Ravenia alive and well. But on the perilous journey Holmes must contend with three ruthless and cunning assassins who are utterly determined to prevent the prince from assuming the throne.

DVD00083
The Scarlett Claw
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson journey to Canada to attend a meeting of the Royal Canadian Occult Society. When news of a horrific murder interrupts the proceedings, the two travel to the tiny village of La Morte Rouge to investigate the slaying. The villagers believe it signals the return of a legendary ghost whose luminescent form can be seen floating through the fog-shrouded marshes. But when more murders follow, Holmes suspects the culprit is really a villager in disguise, and sets an ingenious trap for the ghostly killer.

DVD00082
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Holmes and Watson take time out from being detectives to help the Allies rescue the inventor of a bombsight from the Nazis. Even so, Holmes and Watson get no rest from their arch rival, Dr. Moriarty.

DVD00084
Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman
The Spider Woman, an arch-villain, haunts gambling houses in search of luckless victims. After lending them money in return for an insurance policy, she arranges their apparent suicide by means of the undetectable bite of a deadly arachnid. Sherlock Holmes suspects that murder, not suicide, is afoot and sets out to entrap her. But the wily woman sets him up for slaughter at the unwitting hands of Dr. Watson and the legendary detective has only his quick wits to save himself from certain death.

DVD00085
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
During WWII, the British Government's Inner Council implores Sherlock Holmes to track down a murderous Nazi agent whose deadly acts of sabotage are terrifying England. The agent provides information to a German propaganda broadcaster, who then predicts each new act of sabotage on the radio just before it occurs. As the horrifying carnage escalates, Holmes and Dr. Watson scout London's seedier quarters in search of the dangerous saboteur.

DVD00076
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Sherlock Holmes is summoned by Dr. Watson to centuries old Musgrave Manor. The legendary detective arrives too late to prevent the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave, the head of the family. Soon after, the cunning killer claims the life of young Philip Musgrave, leaving his sister Sally as the estate's sole surviving heir. Desperate to prevent the extinction of the family line, and believing that the "Musgrave Ritual" holds the key to the crimes, Holmes attempts to decode its meaning in a bizarre game of chess that culminates in a lethal confrontation with the culprit.

DVD00074
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
During WWII, a British Secret Service envoy travels from London to Washington with top-secret documents. Fearing abduction by a Nazi spy ring, the envoy attempts to hide the documents. When he mysteriously disappears, the British government asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to investigate the matter. Their vital mission: retrieve the documents before they fall into enemy hands and turn the tide of the war against England and her allies.

DVD00070
Terror by Night
In one of his most challenging cases, Sherlock Holmes is engaged by wealthy Roland Carstairs to protect the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond pendant owned by his mother, Lady Margaret. Convinced an attempt to steal the Star will be made on a train trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes boards the train with his faithful companion, Dr. Watson. Despite their vigilance, the priceless jewel is stolen, and young Roland is murdered to facilitate the theft. With a train full of suspects, one of whom kills without compunction, Holmes puts his own life at risk in a dangerous plan to flush out the villain.

DVD00073
The Woman in Green
Scotland Yard is baffled by the seemingly motiveless crimes of a serial murderer who kills women and sends the Yard and the right forefingers of the victims. It doesn't take a genius, however, to soon discover that Holmes's archenemy Professor Moriarty is at the bottom of it. The only question remains WHY?

Shogun

Shogun is one of the most famous mini-series in television history. Based on the novel by James Clavell, in which English pilot John Blackthorn and his crew survive a shipwreck on the coast of Japan. They find themselves tangled in the civil wars of the 1600's. Japanese lords with samurai armies battle each other with swords and treachery as the Catholic Church struggles to control traders eager for the markets of Asia. Over ten hours long, this superb production includes authentic locations and breathtaking costumes, thrilling battle scenes and a wonderful cast.

DVD00195
Shogun - Night 1
In this episode, Blackthorn and his crew run aground in a storm on the shores of Japan. They are captured by troops belonging to Lord Yabu who loves to torture his victims.

DVD00196
Shogun - Night 2
In this episode, Blackthorn and his crew are separated and he learns of the civil war building between the daimyos and their armies. He struggles to understand Japanese and learn their very different ways of living, bathing and eating.

DVD00197
Shogun - Night 3
In this episode, Blackthorn is rescued from the clutches of Lord Yabu and begins his training as an advisor to Lord Toronaga. He also meets Lady Miriko and becomes more familiar with the deadly pitfalls of Japanese ways.

DVD00198
Shogun - Night 4
In this episode, Blackthorn is ordered to learn Japanese and become more adept in their ways of living. Lady Miriko is assigned to teach him Japanese. Blackthorn rescues Lord Toronaga from an earthquake and is given the exalted rank of samurai.

DVD00199
Shogun - Night 5
In this episode, Blackthorn and Lady Miriko fall in love and begin a very dangerous affair. Toronaga presses forward in his plans to overcome Lord Ishido.

DVD00200
Shogun - Night 6
In this final episode, Blackthorn is horrified when the ship he has built on the orders of Lord Toronaga is burned. Blackthorn and Lady Miriko are sent as hostages to Lord Ichido's castle where Miriko is killed in an attack by ninja. Blackthorn is wounded in the attack but recovers and is ordered by Toronaga to build another ship. Toronaga launches his final battle against Ichido.

A Touch of Frost

DVD00171
A Touch of Frost: Appropriate Adults
Frost investigates the disappearance of 8-year-old Tricia Martin. The last person to see her alive was 19-year old Bill Conrad who has Downs's syndrome and the mental capacity of a child. Frost has to deal with new DCI whose idea of teamwork comes up against his own more individualistic style.

DVD00170
A Touch of Frost: Care and Protection
As his terminally ill wife languishes in bed, Frost investigates a missing child case. Meanwhile, a chance digging turns up a skeleton chained to a strongbox. Then, a former bank employee with links to the strongbox is murdered and Frost must find the killer.

DVD00378
A Touch of Frost: Dead Male One
A body is found floating in the river, and the victim is not who he claimed to be. Further, the star player of a local soccer team collapses during a press conference following an incident on the field in which he received serious head injuries.

DVD00374
A Touch of Frost: A Minority of One
Frost and a black detective investigate a housing project where young, black men have been accused of a string of commercial burglaries. Frost feels responsible when an informant is murdered. When the informant's child is kidnapped, Frost embarks on a one-man rescue mission.

DVD00379
A Touch of Frost: No Refuge
An employee is shot dead during an armed robbery at a local family-run glass works business. One of the witnesses, the business owner, is threatened, and he goes into hiding. Frost must understand the family's tangled web of personal relationships in order to find out who is doing the threatening.

DVD00373
A Touch of Frost: Not With Kindness
As Frost grieves for his newly deceased wife, her visiting sister from the states makes his life unbearable. On the job, Frost searches for a missing teenager and a victim of threatening phone calls wakes in the night to find her home engulfed in flames.

DVD00375
A Touch of Frost: Nothing to Hide
Is a young junkie's death accidental or is it murder? Frost tries to find out with the help of a new partner. Problem is, the partner has been recently demoted after a punch up with a superior officer. Meanwhile, Frost deals with an old flame.

DVD00380
A Touch of Frost: Quarry
DI Jack Frost investigates the murder of Nick Walder who was part of a group of saboteurs trying to disrupt the local hunt. Suspicion falls on many, including the local hunt organizers and some of the saboteurs. A second saboteur is also murdered and Frost needs to untangle events to identify the murderer.

DVD00376
A Touch of Frost: Stranger in the House
A serial rapist is on the loose in Denton. Frost fears a missing teenager may be his latest victim. The investigation is jeopardized when Frost finds a possible connection with the victim's father. Frost tries a dangerous trick, using WPC Wallace as bait for the rapist. Then there's the mystery of Jack's missing medal.

DVD00377
A Touch of Frost: Widows & Orphans
Frost is reluctant to investigate a rash of break-ins at the homes of elderly citizens due to lack of evidence, but then a woman is found badly beaten. At the office, a new female partner dispenses free advice on Jack's love life.

Non-Fiction

Documentaries

DVD00002
Almost Home
Documents the transformation of Milwaukee's St. John's on the Lake retirement community and shows a year in the life of people who live and work in the home. The film rescues the true stories of older adults and those who care for them from an exile of denial. It's a story of one community trying to make a difference, shucking the institutional trappings of traditional nursing homes in favor of a place where we could all imagine ourselves feeling truly "at home."

DVD00003
American Experience: The Battle of the Bulge--the Deadliest Battle of World War II
Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have ever fought. Almost 80,000 Americans were killed, injured, or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance that ultimately ended with a hard-won victory for the Allies.

DVD00057
An Introduction to Scientology
L. Ron Hubbard first presented the principles of dianetics and its therapeutic value in 1950. Dianetics evolved into Scientology, an applied religious philosophy. In his only filmed interview, he answers the most commonly asked questions: What is Scientology? Why is it a religion? How do people benefit from it?

DVD00358
Grass
With music by the Doobie Brothers, Rick James, Peter Tosh, Sonny Bono and Sly and the Family Stone, this witty documentary by Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann explores the curious history of marijuana in the United States. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, the film uses archival footage from a huge variety of sources to trace the weed's effects on American culture, and to expose the government's determined but doomed efforts, decade-by-decade, to curb it's ever-more widespread use.

DVD00056
The Making of Milwaukee
The Making of Milwaukee traces the evolution of the state's largest city from its origin as a Native American settlement to the present day, examining the forces and movements that molded Milwaukee over the past 150 years.

The 20th Century Series

DVD00381
The 20th Century, Volume 1: The Seeds of Progress
1900: The turn of the century ignites enormous changes, not only for the calendar, but also for society. Milestones include: the industrial revolution and the rise of the urban living; massive immigration to the U.S.; the rise of black culture and institutions; the assassination of President McKinley; and the emergence of the U.S. as a global power.

DVD00382
The 20th Century, Volume 2: The Modern Age Begins
1910: As technology moves forward and international struggles flare, warfare raises to a new, more murderous level. Milestones include: giant leaps in transportation, telecommunication, oil and steel industries; revolutions in Mexico, Ireland, Russia and Germany; the First World War; women's suffrage movements; and the emergence of nickelodeons and jazz music.

DVD00383
The 20th Century, Volume 3: A Decade of Contradictions
1920: The Roaring Twenties as they are known see a major polarization of people around the world, people who embrace change and those who fear it. Milestones include: prohibition leads to bootlegging and organized crime; African-American culture accelerates and membership in the KKK reaches an all-time high; Stalin and Mussolini gain power as American turns its back on international affairs; American cities boom while agriculture lags; and big spending and overproduction lead to the stock market crash.

DVD00384
The 20th Century, Volume 4: The Great Depression
The stock market crash of 1929 ushers in a severe economic crisis in the United States and contributes to the rise of international tension. Milestones include: U.S. unemployment tops 15 million; drought devastates the Great Plains; FDR implements his New Deal, Americans turn to baseball, radio, and movies for entertainment and escapism; and Stalin beings to purge his enemies while Japan and Germany flex their military muscles.

DVD00385
The 20th Century, Volume 5: War, Recovery and Rebirth
With Americans still struggling through a severe economic depression, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor leads the United States into the second global conflict of the century. Milestones include: World War II, the Holocaust and the atomic bomb; women enter the workforce in large numbers; Israel declares its independence; the Baby Boom beings; and entertainment shifts to Big Bands, the jitterbug and crooners including Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.

DVD00386
The 20th Century, Volume 6: Promoting the American Dream
The U.S. solidifies its position as a world leader, while on the home front the traditional family takes center stage. Milestones include: the arms race between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.; Senator Joe McCarthy and his witch hunts; the birth of the Civil Rights Movement; the rising influence of television; and Rock and Roll and the conservative/religious reaction.

DVD00387
The 20th Century, Volume 7: A Global Revolution
Innocence is lost as America struggles on many levels, not only politically and military, but also socially. Milestone include: tensions reach the boiling point between the U.S. and Cuba; the assassinations of four political leaders; the Vietnam War, anti-war demonstrations and the Civil Rights movement; the Space Race; and the hippie culture and the British Invasion.

DVD00388
The 20th Century, Volume 8: Power Plays
As the Vietnam War comes to an end, the Middle East becomes a powder keg and the Nixon Administration collapses. Milestone include: the fall of Saigon; the Watergate Scandal; Americans taken hostage in Iran; home life changes dramatically with easier access to microwaves, fast food and VCRs; and the Disco Revolution.

DVD00389
The 20th Century, Volume 9: The 1980s, A Decade of Decadence
Greed is good could be the slogan of the 1980s. The booming American economy helps spawn a series of ecological and technical disasters. The space shuttle Challenger explodes on reentry, the supertanker Exxon Valdez runs aground, spilling millions of gallons of oil in Alaska and President Regan, Pope John Paul II and John Lennon all suffer at the hands of gunmen. In the U.S. improved relations with the U.S.S.R. are offset by the savings and loan scandal and the Iran Contra Affair. On the street there is an exploding market for cell phones, home computers, and crack cocaine.

DVD00390
The 20th Century, Volume 10: America's Hard Drive
The world becomes smaller in the age of instant access, but some find themselves in an age of information overload. Milestones include: the Persian Gulf War fought with computerized weapons; personal computers, beepers, cell phones and fax machines become commonplace; former communist nations make the difficult change to capitalism; shocking rise of violence and terrorism in the U.S.; athletes led by Michael Jordan, Wane Gretzky, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire become role models in American culture.

Nonfiction Television Series

Nova

DVD00045
Battle of the X-Planes
From 1996 to 2001, Boeing and Lockheed Martin produced rival designs and prototypes for the Joint Strike Fighter, a stealthy, affordable combat plane intended for the 21st century needs of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines. NOVA goes behind the scenes to show the world's newest fighter taking shape, as Boeing and Lockheed Martin compete for the largest contract in military history.

DVD00023
Crash of Flight 111: The Investigation of an Airplane Disaster
On Sept. 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111 plummeted into the sea off Nova Scotia with all 229 people on board being killed. Nova reveals the inside story to one of the most baffling aviation investigations ever.

DVD00009
Descent into the Ice: Exploring Mont Blanc's Hidden Glacial Lakes
In 1892 a hidden lake trapped inside a glacier on Mont Blanc suddenly burst and inundated the populated valley below. NOVA ventures inside the glacier and explores a uniquely beautiful and dangerous environment with a new breed of explorer.

DVD00021
Dogs and More Dogs
Dogs and More Dogs is an entertaining and affectionate search for the secrets of dog variation and behavior. Visit state-of-the-art dog labs where the latest in genetic mapping and even cloning are in the air. Explore the bond we share with these remarkable animals.

DVD00022
Fire Wars
The costs of fires, and fighting them, are high. This program investigates other options, their dangers and advantages.

DVD00007
The Great Escape: The Most Daring Allied Prison Escape of World War II
This program sheds new light on the audacious escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp during World War II.

DVD00034
Kingdom of the Seahorse
There is a male fish that becomes pregnant and gives birth? Witness the unbelievable in a tour of the magical and complex world of the sea horse. The mating dance of the sea horse is caught on film for the very first time in this Nova Video Library program.

DVD00033
Magnetic Storm: Earth's Invisible Shield
On March 13, 1989, the lights went out across Canada and the eastern seaboard of the United States. One of the most serious power grid failures in American History was caused by a magnetic storm. Nova explores one of the most serious threats to life.

DVD00006
The Mummy Who Would Be King: The Saga of Pharaoh Ramses I
It is a tantalizing idea and an outrageous long-shot: a shriveled mummy with crossed arms that has lain neglected on a dusty museum shelf at Niagara Falls could be the remains of a long-lost Egyptian king. While a trail of clues hints at how the looted mummy made its way to North America, archeologists, scientists, and even an orthodontist look to the latest genetic testing and imaging techniques in hopes of ascertaining the body's hidden identity.

DVD00026
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth, - and to us? "Origins" explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-edge scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed to capture the earliest observable "snapshot" of the Big Bang. Then watch as astronomers test an ingenious new way to detect distant planets that may harbor life, and discover that every atom in our bodies, and practically every bit of matter in the Earth, was made in the heart of stars.

DVD00042
The Perfect Corpse
NOVA gains exclusive access to forensic scientists and local police authorities investigating two mysterious murder cases. As police unearth stunning evidence of brutal, ritualistic killings, they quickly realize they are the wrong people to solve these crimes. Archeologists step in and find evidence pointing to violent deaths in the prehistoric Iron Age, over 2,000 years ago. NOVA probes how these people lived and why they died. This will be no ordinary investigation, because this is no ordinary ground. Found by accident in waterlogged Irish peat bogs, the corpses are almost perfectly preserved. Although the ancient perpetrators are now well beyond the reach of the law, the bog bodies will yield fascinating secrets if modern science asks the right questions.

DVD00005
Saving the National Treasures
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are literally fading away. The Archives' curators have detected signs of decay. A five-year project is underway to design new encasements and a new rotunda for the charters.

DVD00043
Sinking the Super Ship: The True Story of the WWII Battleship "Yamato"
The final phase of the Pacific war during World War II saw a terrible new tactic: mass kamikaze attacks on American ships by Japanese planes. But the biggest kamikaze attack of all was the suicidal mission of the super battleship Yamato, the largest, most advanced warship of the day. NOVA joins a team exploring the grave of this magnificent vessel to learn the secrets of her design, her final mission, and the violent events that brought her down.

DVD00044
Supersonic Dream: A Tribute to the Concorde
Between 1976 and 2003, the fastest, highest flying, and most elegant way to travel between Europe and the U.S. was aboard the British-French Concorde, a marvel of aircraft engineering that had to battle protestors, politicians, and nervous accountants to earn its place in aviation history and also win the hearts of an adoring public, including many who could never afford to fly it. In "Supersonic Dream," NOVA explores the mystique of this technological wonder of the world.

DVD00046
The Viking Deception: The Truth behind the Vinland Map
On the eve of Columbus Day, 1965, Yale University announced the acquisition of a previously unknown map that showed a large island labeled "Vinland" in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The map supposedly dated from about 1440, half a century before Columbus made his first voyage to America. Was this proof that the Vikings discovered the New World and that perhaps their knowledge guided Columbus? NOVA weighs the evidence on "The Viking Deception."

DVD00008
Volcano above the Clouds: Kilimanjaro, Africa's Tallest Mountain
In 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington State suffered a catastrophic landslide that released seething volcanic gases and rock fragments in a cataclysm that destroyed hundreds of square miles of forest. Could Africa's fabled Mount Kilimanjaro be heading for the same fate? In this program, there is an expedition up Kilimanjaro to learn what the future holds for the world's tallest volcano.

DVD00047
Volcano under the City
Deep inside a volcano, a team of scientists camp amid rockslides and seething sulfur dioxide gas. Their mission: to study this deadly mountain up close and find out what makes it tick. The fate of nearly half a million people in a nearby city could be at stake. NOVA accompanies this daring expedition in "Volcano under the City." The volcano is eastern Congo's Mount Nyiragongo, which erupted in January 2002, surprising the city of Goma 11 miles away. Enormous cracks opened in the ground nearby and spewed fountains of lava, killing 100 people and leaving 120,000 homeless. Scientists' biggest fear is that next time a fracture could open under the city itself.

DVD00017
Welcome to Mars: NASA's Ongoing Search for Life Beyond Earth
This film documents the most significant events of the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

DVD00010
Wright Brothers' Flying Machine
2003 marks the 100th anniversary of the first powered flight as Nova explores the secrets of the Wright brothers' innovative genius.

A Science Odyssey

DVD00035
Bigger, Better, Faster
Focuses on the inventors, entrepreneurs, and scientists whose work fueled the 20th century's technological revolution. Topics include aviation and automobiles, mass media and the computer, and the invention of synthetic materials like nylon and synthetic rubber.

DVD00020
Mysteries of the Universe
Focuses on the revolutions in physics and astronomy and looks into scientists' struggle to discover the fundamental laws of everything. Topics include telescopes, pulsars, the universe, astrophysics, black holes, the structure of the atom and super colliders.

DVD00019
Origins
Reveals what is known about the history of the planet, the human species and life itself through the discoveries of geologists, biochemists, paleo-anthropologists and others. Topics include earth sciences--volcanoes, earthquakes, age and origin of the Earth, formation of mountains--and life sciences, such as the legacy of Charles Darwin, DNA and RNA and the origins of life.

Rx for Survival

Rx for Survival examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new "superbugs."

DVD00030
A Global Health Challenge; 1. Disease warriors
Rise of the Superbugs.

DVD00031
A Global Health Challenge; 2. Delivering the goods
Deadly messengers.

DVD00032
A Global Health Challenge; 3. Back to the Basics
How Safe are We?

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Last updated on 5/4/2010 4:56:58 PM