Citizen Kane
DVD 567
An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Godfather
DVD 583
Explores the history and influence of a U.S. Mafia family. Don Corleone, the family patriarch, tries to ensure that his sons will inherit his position and power over rival Mafioso factions. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Casablanca
DVD 913-914
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Raging Bull
DVD 2144
Jake La Motta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. His brother Joey falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, while fifteen-year-old Vickie, becomes Jake's wife and most prized trophy. The same anger that drives Jake in the ring, ultimately drives him to beat his wife and brother, and sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral of paranoia and rage. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Singin' in the Rain
DVD 2524
Actors are caught in the bumpy transition to talking pictures; a spoof of the early days of "talkie" films. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Gone With the Wind
DVD 12
Set during the American Civil War, this story focuses on the lives and loves of Southerners during this period and the hardships they endured. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Lawernce of Arabia
DVD 452
The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Schindler's List
DVD 1404
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa that overlooks the prison camp he commands. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Vertigo
DVD 8
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Wizard of Oz
DVD 5525
Musical fantasy tale about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who visits the magical land of Oz. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
City Lights
DVD 111
A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Searchers
DVD 300
Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Star Wars
DVD 2658
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and two robots (R2-D2 and C-3PO) work together to rescue the princess and restore justice in the Empire. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Psycho
DVD 5
Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
2001 A Space Odyssey
DVD 2350
A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Sunset Boulevard
DVD 874
Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad, he tries to leave, but Norma kills him, the scene which she believes is the highlight of her comeback movie. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Graduate
DVD 369
A recent college graduate from an affluent family comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and the daughter of his father's business partner. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The General
DVD 792
The General is a locomotive beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War singlehandedly. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
On the Waterfront
DVD 848
An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
It's a Wonderful Life
DVD 66
George Bailey, a desperate and suicidal man, is visited by a guardian angel who shows him how important he has been to those around him in his life. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Chinatown
DVD 152 c.2
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Some Like It Hot
DVD 740
Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians in an all-girl band. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Grapes of Wrath
DVD 1218
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
DVD 8458
A story of an alien stranded on Earth and his relationship with a young boy. For the 20th anniversary, the film was reissued with a digitally remixed soundtrack, additional footage and computer-generated enhancements to existing scenes. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
To Kill a Mockingbird
DVD 2
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
DVD 9123
Jefferson Smith is a small town idealist who answers the call to duty when he's unexpectedly named to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Determined to do some good, he sponsors a bill to create a national boy's camp, unaware it threatens to undermine a graft scheme sponsored by his home state's crooked political machine. Framed and threatened with expulsion, Jefferson takes to the Senate floor to prove his innocence. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
High Noon
DVD 809
This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
All About Eve
DVD 817
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Double Indemnity
DVD 174
When a widow tries to collect on the double indemnity clause in her husband's insurance policy, an investigator becomes suspicious of what seems to be the perfect crime, and begins to doubt that her husband's death was an accident. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Apocalypse Now
DVD 148
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Maltese Falcon
DVD 191
After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Godfather Part II
DVD 584
In this sequel, two stories are told: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito and the ascension of Michael as the new Don. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
DVD 4481
The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
DVD 1231
The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one, the Queen, her jealous stepmother. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White as the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest. There, she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs, Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey. The Queen finds Snow White and tricks her with an enchanted apple. Only the magic of true love's kiss can save her. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Annie Hall
DVD 135
Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
DVD 4238
British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Best Years of Our Lives
DVD 953
Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
DVD 2503
Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Dr. Strangelove
DVD 582
A satire in which the President and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Sound of Music
DVD 8767
Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
King Kong
DVD 6448
A moviemaking expedition to a fantastic island is filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. A giant simian becomes lovestruck with the film's blonde starlet. King Kong is captured and is brought to Manhattan, where he goes on a rampage, culminating in the fateful finale atop the Empire State Building where he cradles his beloved and swats at machine-gunning airplanes. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Bonnie and Clyde
DVD 133
A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Midnight Cowboy
DVD 853
A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Philadelphia Story
DVD 6785
A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Shane
DVD 814
A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
It Happened One Night
DVD 81
A runaway heiress falls in love with a reporter who is chasing her across America. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
A Streetcar Named Desire
DVD 2092
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Rear Window
DVD 293
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in film history. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Intolerance
DVD 127
Comprised of four separate interwoven stories, intended to show how hatred and intolerance have battled against love and charity through the ages. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
DVD 502
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-Earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
West Side Story
DVD 10183
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Taxi Driver
DVD 176
A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Deer Hunter
DVD 320
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
M*A*S*H
DVD 7328
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
North by Northwest
DVD 280
Enemy agents mistake a New York City advertising executive for an American spy. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Jaws
DVD 185
A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Rocky
DVD 555
Rocky Balboa, the underdog, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect and the world heavyweight boxing crown and comes out a winner. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Gold Rush
DVD 640
Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Nashville
DVD 136
Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Duck Soup
DVD 9121
After being appointed the dictator of Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly proceeds to bring the mythical nation to a halt by showing up late and insulting everyone at his inauguration. Hoping to oust the unfit new leader, two spies are sent from the neighboring Sylvania. Soon enough, war is declared between the two nations with outrageous results. Including Groucho's famous mirror scene and final battle scene, it remains as entertaining and relevant today as it did when first released in 1933. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Sullivan’s Travels
DVD 607
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery -- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
American Graffiti
DVD 145
Four teenagers come of age on their last summer night before college in 1962. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Cabaret
DVD 811
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Network
DVD 205
A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings". Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The African Queen
DVD 9124
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows determined to assist in the British war effort and presses Charlie until he finally agrees and together they steam up the Ulana encountering an enemy fort, raging rapids, bloodthirsty parasites and an endlessly branching stream which always seems to lead them to what appear to be impenetrable swamps. Despite their opposing personalities, the two grow closer to each other and ultimately carry out their plan to take out a German warship. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
DVD 4356
Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
DVD 9125
A couple is invited to the home of a professor and his sharp-tongued wife, and are treated to verbal battles by their hosts. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Unforgiven
DVD 173
Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Tootsie
DVD 9244
"Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money - eight thousand dollars to be exact - and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime." Click here to view this item in the catalog.
A Clockwork Orange
DVD 1088
"Being the adventures of a young man who couldn't resist pretty girls, or a bit of the old ultra-violence, who went to jail, was re-conditioned, and came out a different young man. Or was he?" So might opine your humble narrator, Alex. Alex and his droogs Georgie, Dim, and Pete are bored. Alex loves Ludwig van, milk bars, and mayhem. One night a botched burglary ends in murder. Apprehended by the police, Alex is tried, sentenced, and sent to prison for fourteen years. Two years into his sentence, he signs up for The Ludovico Treatment, and is released as cured. However, the world is a harsh and violent place, and now Alex is unable to defend himself. O my brothers, what will happen to poor Alex now?
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Saving Private Ryan
DVD 114
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking thir lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Shawshank Redemption
DVD 620
Two convicts, one white and one black, never give up the dream of freedom, and together they turn hope and friendship into an uplifting bond no prison can ever take away. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
DVD 316
Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Silence of the Lambs
DVD 167
A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another serial killer. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
In the Heat of the Night
DVD 441
A small town Southern sheriff finds himself in an uneasy alliance with a big-city black homicide detective as they investigate a murder. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Forrest Gump
DVD 565
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody a generation. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
All the President's Men
DVD 2522
True story of the Watergate break-in that led to the political scandal of the decade. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Modern Times
DVD 2178
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Wild Bunch
DVD 812
The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Apartment
DVD 3575
An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Spartacus
DVD 593
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Sunrise
DVD 1022 X
A villager in love with a city woman tries to kill his wife but then repents and spends a happy day with her. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Titanic
DVD 250
Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Easy Rider
DVD 137
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
A Night at the Opera
DVD 9133
A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Platoon
DVD 356
Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
12 Angry Men
DVD 1087
A jury of white men is ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. However, one juror forces the others to consider whether the evidence--or the jurors' own prejudices--influences their deliberations. The story plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Bringing up Baby
DVD 9145
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Sixth Sense
DVD 886
A noted child psychologist attempts to help a frightened 8-year-old boy who is experiencing terrifying visions of the dead. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Swing Time
DVD 9142
A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiance, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Sophie's Choice
DVD 341
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Goodfellas
DVD 251
Three decades in the life of a group of men involved with organized crime. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The French Connection
DVD 573
Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Pulp Fiction
DVD 1930
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
The Last Picture Show
DVD 6504
A bittersweet drama of the social and sexual mores in small-town 1950s Texas. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Do the Right Thing
DVD 180
"The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise." Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Blade Runner
DVD 9
In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated "Blade Runner" assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic "replicants", genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case, six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters who created them. In the course of investigation, Deckard falls in love with a beautiful woman who holds a disturbing secret, creating additional doubt and confusion in Deckard's mind. This 2007 "final cut" was remastered with improved visual and sound effects, and made some revisions to the 1992 "director's cut" revision. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
DVD 2266
A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Toy Story
DVD 6820
An astonishing world where toys play while their owners are away. Woody is a pull-string cowboy doll and is the leader of the toys until the latest, greatest action figure, Buzz Lightyear, enters the picture. When the toy rivals are separated from their owner, they learn to put aside their differences and work as a team to get back home to the boy they love. Click here to view this item in the catalog.
Ben-Hur
DVD 1090
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive and a quest for vengeance. Judah survives the galleys to become the adopted son of a Roman general, and his triumphant return to Judea permits him to challenge and subsequently confront Messala in a chariot race. Click here to view this item in the catalog.