HBO Home Entertainment (Firm)
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spanning several decades beginning in the 1950s, Crystal reminisces about what it was like growing up in a loving Jewish family in Long Beach, LI. He recalls the numerous eclectic relatives who inspired him, the huge influence of jazz on his family, his passion for the New York Yankees, and much more.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Alex Gibney directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was touted as "the next Steve Jobs," the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just...
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cinemax's first scripted primetime drama series returns. A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller, Strike Back focuses on two members of Section 20, a secret British anti-terrorist organization. In Season Three, the series will have a true global canvas, opening in Colombia, with parallel missions in Beirut, Budapest, Russia and Germany, and following a trail of drug money that is funding terrorists in the Middle East.
5) Manhunt
Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The May 1, 2011 raid on Abbottabad, Pakistan that culminated in the killing of Osama bin Laden took 40 minutes. The CIA's hunt for binLaden took two decades. An official selection of the 2013 Sundance Festival, Manhunt tells the remarkable true story of the nearly 20-year pursuit of the world's most notorious terrorist. Directed by Emmy-nominee Greg Barker, the film features testimony and recollections - some shared for the first time - from top...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a women's extended-care unit of a California hospital, the story follows the daily lives of a ragtag staff assigned to care for elderly patients who are, well, getting on. Nurse DiDi is the no-nonsense newbie, Unit veteran Nurse Dawn is tasked with training DiDi, but winds up obsessing over male Supervising Nurse Patsy. Disgruntled Dr. Jenna James continues her above-it-all temper tantrums despite being given a fresh start.
8) Mosaic
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (315 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story focuses on the brutal New Year's Eve disappearance of a high-profile resident of picturesque Summit, Utah, and the four-year effort of law-enforcement officers and civilians to arrive at the truth behind the crime.
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 558 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family, a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children, and sole biological child, and a Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and times of Enoch Nucky Thompson, Atlantic City's undisputed czar at a time when Prohibition proved to be a major catalyst in the rise of organized crime in America. Season three begins on New Year's Eve 1922-23. The roaring 20s are about to start; though the economy is booming, alcohol has become scarce, competition is fierce, and gangster violence is heating up.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 471 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The focus is on two members of Section 20, a secret British anti-terrorist organization, Michael Stonebridge is a British soldier trying to overcome a tragedy and Damien Scott a disgraced U.S. Delta Force operative. Contains episodes 41-50.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 340 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life for these Brooklyn girls takes a series of bizarre turns as each tries to figure out what happens next, with and without each other's friendship.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Stonebridge ... , Damien Scott ... , and new boss Rachel Dalton ... scour Africa in pursuit of a fresh covey of criminals each vying for possession of valuable nuclear triggers that could launch Armageddon if they fall in the wrong hands--Container.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Westworld, where the puppet show is over and the newly liberated 'hosts' are coming for humankind. In Season Two, Dolores takes charge, Maeve is on a mission and the Man in Black is back. Chaos takes control in this dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life, and the evolution of sin.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (483 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Section 20 is sent on a mission to secure a stolen bioweapon and keep it from hitting the black market. This routine op quickly escalates as they find an even deadlier weapon of mass destruction that needs to be neutralized.
18) Fahrenheit 451
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a not too distant future, humans live a seemingly care-free existence where they're happy and productive. There is a price though for this life: They must place special drops in their eyes daily and follow the rules perfectly, including the rule that they never own or read books. Guy Montag is a firefighter. He doesn't fight fires though, but instead hunts down those people who refuse to follow the law and burns their books. Like everyone else,...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 503 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California.
20) Bessie
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on Bessie Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into 'The Empress of the Blues', who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today.