Summary: A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALIParrado, Nando
Summary: A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 982 PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival ParradoSummary: The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family We 2007Summary: On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile, then vanished into thin air. Sixteen of the 45 passenger resurfaced, 72 days after their plane crashed. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to tell their story in their own words.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRRead, Piers Paul
Summary: On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a teamof rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 982.6 ReaSummary: A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLIMacQuarrie, Kim.
Summary: "Kim MacQuarrie tells great stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all of these stories set in the Andes Mountains"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 MACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 MACSummary: Final destination: While boarding for a cross-country flight with friends, Alex has a premonition of the plane crashing. When he causes a ruckus and gets kicked off the flight, he and his friends watch in horror as the plane crashes, but Alex and his friends learn that they were fated to die on board the airplane, a fate that hunts them down one-by-one. Final destination 2: A teen with mild...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FINSummary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSummary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003Black, Dale.
Summary: "Dale Black tells how he survived a plane crash at age nineteen, his near-death experience of heaven, and how his life dramatically changed as a result of this event forty years ago"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK, DALE BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ BlackSummary: After their plane crashes in Alaska, seven oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GRESummary: An unprecedented team of six former members of the original official investigation into the most controversial crash in aviation history reveal how their work was undermined by agents from the CIA and FBI as well as National Transportation Agency leaders. Working with physicist Tom Stalcup, these extraordinary whistleblowers meet with dozens of eyewitnesses and present hard forensic evidence...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWAFriedrich, Belinda.
Summary: Explores the 1996 explosion of a 747 jet plane off the coast of Long Island, New York, focusing on the investigation which led to new safety recommendations for fuel tank systems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.1246 FRISummary: In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 33 RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: Final destination: After being kicked off the plane because of his disruptive premonition, Alex and some of his classmates watch as the premonition comes true. Now having dodged death once, the terror begins in full as fate hunts them down one by one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Productions 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FINSummary: An adventure set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful U.S. mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. His romance with the boss's daughter only complicates matters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TYCSummary: As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSSummary: After their plane crashes 48 people are stranded on an island that holds many secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOSSummary: This critically acclaimed epic drama will finally reveal the fate of each of the Oceanic 815 survivors and the rest who have joined their journey in this sixth and final season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While Jack, Kate, and Locke investigate what's inside the hatch, the "tailies" are found. These survivors are from the tail of the plane and include tough girl Ana-Lucia and the spiritual and mysterious Mr. Eko. They come across a ship wrecked Michael, Jin, and Sawyer. Survivors begin being killed off, and ever so slowly secrets are revealed. Learn what happened to Walt when he left Michael...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOSSummary: Atomic Submarine: A series of mysterious sinkings plagues the northern seas. Great trans-arctic submarine liners are vanishing without a trace! The nuclear powered U.S.S. Tiger Shark, the most advanced sub in the fleet, has been undergoing around-the-clock modifications to prepare for an urgent top-secret mission: to discover the cause of the Arctic disasters, and put an end to it!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI FIRSummary: On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA SULSukay (Musical group)
Contents: Huayrasan (3:08) -- Khuyaylla (2:46) -- Mandolinita (3:20) -- Añoranzas (2:52) -- Tu eres mentirosa (3:19) -- San Bartolomito (2:28) -- Yayakarwi (3:22) -- Mil promesas (3:20) -- Tarkas, choquellas, toyos (3:38) -- Carrito pasajerito (3:06) -- San Juan (2:04).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish 1988