Summary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANSummary: The film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were there, revealing the incredible chain of events that brought America to the brink of nuclear disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COMSummary: John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, is back, and his latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GOOSummary: Miracle mile: A young man named Harry hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit Los Angeles in less than two hours. Not sure if the whole thing is a dire warning or a harmless prank, Harry races through the city, fighting mobs of terrified people in a desperate search for Julie, a young woman he only met yesterday and the one person with whom he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRSummary: Fantastic voyage: A team of miniaturized scientists go on a remarkable journey through the human body. The lost world: Prehistoric beasts are discovered in the modern-day world. The towering inferno: Faulty wiring sparks a deadly fire in a high-rise building. Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Adventures aboard the submarine Seaview.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FANSummary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BISSummary: There is more to the universe than meets the eye--a lot more. In recent years, scientists have discovered that 95 percent of the contents of the cosmos are invisible to our current methods of direct detection. Yet something is holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together, and something else is causing space to fly apart. Scientists call these invisible components dark matter and dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1126 DARSummary: Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America when the miners joined the union.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 331.89 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HARSummary: Examines the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan. Looks at the lives of some of the refugees from the town of Futaba. Raises questions regarding the future of nuclear power in Japan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUCSummary: An earthquake in rural Australia causes a dangerous leak at WALDO, a nuclear waste storage facility. Heinrich Schmidt, an engineer badly exposed to radiation, knows that the leak will poison the groundwater for hundreds of miles around, and wants to warn the public. His boss, however, is only interested in protecting himself, and plots a cover up. Heinrich escapes from the facility, but is too...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gemstone Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE CHASummary: Presents a documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long range affects of nuclear war on civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRSummary: "Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity to the aging facility, its continued operation has the support of the plant's operators and the NRC--Nuclear Regulatory Commission--yet has stoked a great deal of controversy in the surrounding community, including a vocal anti-nuclear contingent concerned that what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INDSummary: Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC DOWSummary: Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIGSummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHESummary: Five (1951) Black and White 93 minutes Not Rated Starring: William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee When a nuclear bomb destroys the world, only five survivors remain. A pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a banker and an explorer seek shelter in an abandoned house. As the last living human beings, they must work together. However, their clashing visions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CLASummary: It's the ultimate contest of courage, wits, and endurance when twelve of the world's best survivalists from the series return to take on a grueling survival challenge: 40 days and 40 nights in the Colombian badlands, with no food, no water, no clothes, and no help from the camera crews. Hunting for food and building shelters is only the beginning, as the survivalists confront such dangers as a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NAKSummary: "This unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Working from a contemporary best seller, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Sidney Lumet wrench harrowing suspense from the doomsday...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FAISummary: In this thrilling feminist documentary, indomitable women fight back against the nuclear industry to expose one of the worst cover-ups in U.S. history. RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is an award-winning film about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history and its aftermath. It uncovers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who Harris is and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD EVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie EveningSummary: U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRISummary: In her breathtaking and assured debut feature, Lynne Ramsay creates a haunting evocation of a troubled Glasgow childhood. Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him. Utilizing beautiful, elusive imagery, candid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What's the most common, yet most elusive and least understood, particle in the universe? The neutrino. Starting with the invention of the nuclear bomb, billions of dollars have been spent in pursuit of this so-called ghost particle. Outnumbering atoms a billion to one, neutrinos are preposterously plentiful, they hardly interact with anything, and they mystifyingly morph between three different...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PARSummary: The Firehouse family faces dangerous new challenges this season as they continue to put their own lives on the line to keep others safe. They were racing to rescue workers trapped inside of a burning mattress factory. With an industrial boiler threatening to explode at any moment, can Chicago's bravest make it out safely before the blast takes out the whole block?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020