Summary: 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: 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: 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: "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: The thrilling, eye-opening chapter you've been waiting for. Witness the beginning of the X-Men universe. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE XCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE XMECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XMESummary: Austin Powers, international man of mystery: Secret agent Austin Powers is thawed back into action after being frozen for thirty years. The time-warped swinger has to battle again with his archenemy Dr. Evil and stop his plot to control the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AUSSummary: "A couple face a nuclear holocaust with only the instruction from the government's infamous 'Protect and survive' leaflet to help them."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Four Ltd. 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHESummary: Mad Max: In the ravaged near future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max Rockatansky. And when the bikers brutalized Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Featured are a series of comic sketches about a post-nuclear London: a girl is seventeen months pregnant, a father turns into a parrot, a man becomes a chest of drawers, and another man becomes a bed sitting room.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEDD'Arcy, James
Summary: After being faced with an impending nuclear apocalypse, a group of college students at an international school in Jakarta must determine which ten of them will take shelter underground and reboot the human race.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films (usa) Llc 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AFTSummary: A woman vacationing in the Austrian mountains discovers that she is separated from all human contact by an invisible barrier. With her loyal dog Lynx as her sole companion she undergoes an inward journey of growth and transcendence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WALSummary: In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DRSummary: The Sacrifice: A dark and complex drama about redemption and the nuclear holocaust. When a middle aged intellectual in retirement on an island in the Baltic Seas witnesses signs of what he believes to be a nuclear holocaust, he offers to make the ultimate sacrifice in return for the salvation of mankind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corporation 2000