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1) District 9
Publisher
Tri Star
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom. Includes commentary, deleted scenes,...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc, PG, (ca. 93 min.) : sd., color, closed captioned; 4 3/4 in. + index guide.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An experimental invention accidently shrinks the inventor's and his neighbor's kids, who spend the bulk of the film ant-sized and trying to navigate their own back yard.
3) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
An outcast high-schooler, Peter Parker, was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by an aunt and uncle. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance. Peter uses his powers to shape his destiny to become a hero.
6) Looper
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In the year 2074, the mob sends problem people back in time, where a hired gun awaits to eliminate them. Joe is one such hired gun, good at what he does. But problems arise when the mob tries to 'close the loop,' and Joe comes face-to-face with his future self during a hit. When Joe's future self escapes after he hesitates to finish the assignment, Joe must chase himself down and finish the job.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (113 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are...
8) Interstellar
Language
English
Description
Film is a story about an ex-pilot turned farmer, who must leave his family and a foundering Earth to lead an expedition traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hacker is transported into a computer where he must fight for his life against the Master Control system. The hacker teams up with a bookkeeping program and his girlfriend to try to replace Master Control with Tron.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen, collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roy Neary witnesses the arrival of flying saucers from an alien world. This begins a series of events culminating in the ultimate encounter when human and aliens make peaceful contact.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Wide screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos, but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This exciting reference format accompanies the eagerly anticipated, first-ever standalone Star Wars movie: Rogue One. This beautifully detailed title features in-depth character profiles, plus 5 newly commissioned and fully annotated cross-sections of vehicles and mapped-out locations. With clear and authoritative text, this book is packed with essential information--and presented alongside stunning stills from the movie."--Amazon.
13) Melancholia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully filmed movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire and brother-in-law John. A planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth and threatening to collide. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting and relationships are fraying as the family deals with their fears.
14) Rogue One
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
[Standard format], Two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (148 min.) : si. and sd, b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Publisher
Strike Productions
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2016, and America is on the verge of economic disaster. The greatest citizens are being targeted, and dark forces are working to bring about America's final days. Our only hope for salvation lies with Dagny Taggart and Henry Rearden, rugged individualists whose bold ideas may have the power to spark a revolution and reclaim the American Dream.
17) Prometheus
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A team of explorers aboard the spaceship Prometheus searches for an advanced civilization that may have been responsible for human life on Earth. Instead, they find a dark, twisted world that hides a terrifying threat of destroying them and all mankind.
18) Elysium
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
19) Snowpiercer
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 digital videodiscs (126 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
20) Alien
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.