D. B. Sweeney
1) Dinosaur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A pharmaceutical sales rep visits a small town in Louisiana on business. He finds himself in a dark world of corruption and murder with only 24 hours to live, running from the police, the mob and a sheriff who wants him dead.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gavin Stone, a washed-up former child star is forced to do community service at a local mega-church and pretends to be Christian so he can land the part of Jesus in their annual passion play only to discover that the most important role of his life is far from Hollywood.
5) Taken 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
6) Chi-Raq
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago's South Side creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.
7) Extraction
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a terrorist group kidnaps retired CIA field operative Leonard Turner, his son, Harry Turner, launches his own unsanctioned rescue operation. While evading highly skilled operatives, deadly assassins, and international terrorists, Harry finally puts his combat training to the test.
8) Brother Bear
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy's brother is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. With revenge on his mind, Kenai sets out into the woods only to find himself magically transformed into the creature he hates most, a bear. Luckily, a bear cub befriends him and Kenai sets out to become human again. Kenia begins to see the world through the eyes of what was once his prey and is forced to learn a lesson about nature and life. In the meantime, Kenia's...
Language
English
Description
The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
11) The cutting edge
Series
Language
English
Description
Romantic comedy about a handsome, self-centered ex-ice hockey player and a figure skater with a prima donna attitude who dislike each other intensely, but they team up because to each other they represent a last resort for their prospective careers in the rink.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on four best-selling non-fiction books of over 700 Darwin Award cases, an insurance claims investigator teams up with a forensic detective, to team up to investigate potential Darwin Award cases. Winners are saluted for the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.
14) Fire in the sky
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1975, logger Travis Walton and his co-workers discovered a hovering UFO. Walton's pals fled, but Walton was not so fortunate. Whisked aboard the strange aircraft, he was subjected to a painful, unearthly medical study.
15) Gardens of stone
Language
English
Description
This war-toughened sergeant who passionately longs to train soldiers for fighting in Vietnam is assigned to the elite Old Guard. His girlfriend, a Washington Post reporter, is against the war but respects his view. The sergeant takes a zealous soldier under his wing and tries to help train him for his tour in Vietnam, but the young soldier is killed three weeks before returning from Vietnam.
16) Speak
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melinda, a smart and spirited high school freshman, retreats into self-imposed silence after she is raped one night at a party. Eventually through her work in art class, she begins to reach out to others.
17) Free fall
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A top executive is killed in an apparent suicide leap from the skyscraper headquarters of Gault Capital. But when the dead man's loyal protege, Jane Porter, uncovers some startling criminal evidence, the corporation calls in their 'crisis manager' to silence her forever. He will trap Jane in an elevator between floors. It is a holiday weekend in the empty building. And for one desperate woman, surviving a cold-blooded killer may now mean a very long...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A young white House lawyer, Michael Garrick, begins dating the President's daughter, Nora Hartson. Michael thinks he can handle the pressures of the White House and all the power. Until, while together late one night, he and Nora witness something they were never meant to see--and become ensnared in a secret scheme by a White House insider that includes betrayal and murder"--NoveList.
19) Dinosaur
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron.
20) Hardball
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young gambler attempts to borrow money from a friend, the conditions of the loan state that he must coach a Little League baseball team from Cabrini Green housing projects in Chicago.
