HBO Home Entertainment (Firm)
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using exclusive interviews and spanning half a decade, The Cheshire Murders reveals the shocking police failures and untold personal dramas behind the notorious rape-arson-homicide case that shook Cheshire, Connecticut, in the summer of 2007. In this quiet bedroom suburb, Jennifer Petit and her two daughters, age eleven and seventeen, were killed in a home invasion gone horribly wrong; husband and father William Petit was the only member of the family...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intimate and candid look at the life and art of legendary composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, as revealed through the creation and performance of six of his songs, and remembered by the man himself. The six songs featured in the film are: Something's coming, Opening doors, Send in the clowns, I'm still here, Being alive and Sunday. Art and life are intertwined for Sondheim, and it is a story of both.
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.
6) 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.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (271 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Final season of the comedy series focusing on the unholy alliance forged between two high school vice principals before, as, and after they take down the school's new principal.
10) 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 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (226 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A painfully funny new comedy series which follows best friends Issa and Molly as they navigate the tricky professional and personal terrain of Los Angeles while facing the challenges of being two black women who defy all stereotypes. Insecure explores the black female experience in a subtle, witty, and authentic way, as Issa and Molly stumble their way toward pulling their lives together while trying their hardest to never settle for less.
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
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking documentary series sheds new light on real-estate icon, Robert Durst, while unraveling one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in New York history.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, season five goes deep into the battle between the Vampire Authority and 'vampire fundamentalists': a political power play whose outcome could decide not only the fate of Sookie and her Bon Temps friends, but of all human existence.
16) The young pope
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fictional story of a newly elected pope, the youngest in history and first-ever American, whose audacity, independence, and arch-conservatism wreak havoc within the Vatican.
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
[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
[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.