Summary: "Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COOSummary: Over 2,000 passengers and crew are celebrating New Year's Eve aboard the luxury cruise ship 'Poseidon' on the open sea. Without warning, at midnight, a rogue wave hundreds of feet high, slams into the ship and rolls it upside down. Most of the passengers and crew are killed outright, but several hundred remain alive in the ballroom, where the party was being held. Realizing their only hope of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Poseidon 2006Summary: Set in a near-future where the economy has crumbled and violent gangs play havoc in the streets, the powers-that-be have decided to lure the delinquent youth into drive-in cinemas and keep them there. No longer just a place to watch trashy movies and make out, these outdoor picture shows have become concentration camps for the unruly and unwanted. Two people have mistakenly been sent there, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR DEASummary: After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong. The system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEO RATED PG-13Summary: Things have been looking sunny for Arata Kasuga lately. Unfortunately it's been the wrong sun in the sky, and the mysterious Breakdown Phenomenon that accompanied it destroyed his town and stole his beloved cousin Hiijiri, leaving Arata in a fantasy world of his own creation! There's still a chance to save her, however, as the appearance of the Black Sun also revealed Arata's potential...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME TRISummary: The Super Outbreak of 1974 was the most intense tornado outbreak on record, tearing a vicious path of destruction across thirteen states, generating 148 tornadoes from Alabama to Ontario, damaging thousands of homes, and killing more than 300 people. Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying the outbreak's aftermath in the most extensive aerial tornado study ever...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MR.Summary: The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the Earth's surface, holds half of the world's water, and hides the deepest place on the planet. It is a place where huge and iconic, rare and dazzling creatures live, and where creatures yet to be discovered lurk. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program breaks the boundaries between land and sea to present the Pacific Ocean in a way never seen before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIGSummary: Follow the final hours of an 'unsinkable' Russian nuclear submarine as it sinks to the bottom of the Barents Sea. Some of the crew survives the initial explosion, including officer Mikhail Kalekov, whose pregnant wife and child are waiting back home. Unfortunately, their rescue is complicated by bureaucracy between Russia, France, Norway, and Britain, with British navy chief David Russell...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COMSummary: The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAVSummary: Secret agent Derek Flint fights an evil organization called Galaxy which has learned how to send icebergs crashing into the Mediterranean, to flood whole valleys and to cause volcanoes to erupt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE OURSummary: Living through a disaster is not a question of if, it's a question of when. This lecture offers a practical guide for protecting the individual, their family, and their community. Taught by Professor Stephen Owen of Radford University, these fourteen fast-paced lectures will arm viewers with information for planning ahead so they can prepare for the effects of a disaster or catastrophe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 OWESummary: In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FIC KNOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie KnowingSummary: "Selected by specialists at the Archives, Natural Disasters chronicles some of the world's most devastating earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, forest fires and volcanoes. Also recounted are the heroic efforts of relief workers to return cities to normal and the attempts of local governments to better prepare for future events." -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Topics Entertainment 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NATSummary: One of the most gripping disaster films of all time follows ten survivors as they struggle to escape from an ocean liner capsized by a tidal wave. Suspenseful terror, combined with the victims' intimate and personal stories, results in compelling and heart-stopping drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE POSSummary: Explores the dangerous and destructive forces of nature, from hurricanes to volcanoes, tornadoes to avalanches and earthquakes. Rare footage reveals the Earth at its most violent. The making of Eyewitness (written and produced by Bill Butt ; director/cameraman Mike Kamei ; music by Guy Michelmore) shows the camera and computer techniques used in the production of the series opening screens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EYESummary: They are among the most powerful and deadly war machines ever built, and yet they are chillingly vulnerable to fickle fate, human error and the crushing, unforgiving waters of the sea. Tells the stories of four submarine disasters, including the USS Squalus and the story of the disabled nuclear-powered Soviet K-19.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Television & Film 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LOSSummary: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge. Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ITSummary: Oceans cover more than 70 percent of our planet and contain 90 percent of life on earth, yet they remain the most treacherous and alien part of our environment. Through unparalleled underwater footage, up-to-date science and harrowing first-person accounts, Savage Seas probes the watery phenomena that hold both terror and allure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SAVSummary: "It's been twelve years since the Blast Fall, an unexplained disaster that left countless dead and many more maimed. Society is divided and every citizen feels the burn, most of all the Resembles - people whose mangled bodies have been rebuilt with high-tech prosthetic devices. Bounty hunter Roy Revant has seen it all, walking alone in this shattered city. That is, until the day a strange...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SOLSummary: The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SURSummary: Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOOSummary: A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RoSummary: Through eyewitness video, historical archives, and cutting edge CGI, National Geographic provides a comprehensive, yet intimate look at the most significant natural disasters of all time. A team of world experts reveal the pivotal moments that turned the top ten from natural phenomenon into human catastrophe and explain why these disasters became genuine game-changers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013