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Author
Series
Great Courses volume 22
Language
English
Description
Among significant 20th-century treatments of the saga, begin with T.H. White's The Once and Future King and its ruminations on kingship, power, and governance. Also explore Mary Stewart's highly original Merlin Trilogy, Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist The Mists of Avalon, and the brilliant comic book series Camelot 3000.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002, 1985
Language
English
Description
Back to the Future: It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
Back to the Future Part II: Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen steals...
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 24
Language
English
Description
It's time for your last shift in the emergency department. In this closing lecture, Dr. Benaroch uses several case studies to help you review the big-picture lessons of good emergency care you've learned throughout the course-lessons that have opened your eyes to the excitement and challenges of emergency medicine and that can help you take better care of yourself and your loved ones.
4) The aviator
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Howard Hughes was a rich young man from Texas, heir to his father's fortune, when he decided he wanted to make movies. Age 21, he made the most expensive Hollywood film ever (at the time); and went on to break air-speed records, make another fortune in aircraft design, smash Charles Lindbergh's round-the-world flight record, and be romantically linked with almost all of Hollywood's famous beauties. Nevertheless, he died alone, sealed into a room he...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A lethal cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back from 2029 A.D. to present day Los Angeles on a mission to kill the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. The original Terminator cyborg is reprogrammed and sent to save the boy, assisted by the boy's mother, a woman warrior whose warnings of a world headed toward nuclear disaster go unheeded.
Series
Twilight zone. Collection 3 volume 25
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2000
Language
English
Description
Execution: A western outlaw is spared from his execution by a scientist and his time machine, only to face fate in the future; The hunt: A hunter and his dog are killed, leading them to what may be the gate to Heaven; The self-improvement of Salvadore Ross: A man with the ability to trade traits with others tries to turn himself into the person he believes will appeal to the woman he loves; Number twelve looks just like you: A young woman rejects...
7) The Matrix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an anti-utopian future, the "real" world as we know it is nothing more than a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct and is now fighting for the future of the human race. Includes 26 minutes of behind-the-scenes special features.
8) Judgment
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
It is the imminent future. The world follows one government and one man. It is a world of peace, yet some still fight the authorities. To crush the dissent, the ruler arranges a trial of unprecedented proportion. A trial in the world court to be televised to a global audience. A trial that would see Helen Hannah, a Christian and a champion of the resistance, convicted and executed for hatred of the human race. ... There is only one way to truly uncover...
9) Stealth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Vampire strikes back: The gang runs into a real life vampire in a Transylvanian castle. Mummy scares best: The gang investigates a mummy on the loose in Egypt. High-tech house of the future: The gang is trapped in a beserk automated house of the future at the Omaha World Fair. She sees a sea monster by the sea shore: The gang's tropical island vacation is ruined by a boat-smashing sea monster.
Series
Orville volume 2
Publisher
Fox
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seth MacFarlane's hit space adventure series returns for more journeys into new worlds. Set 400 years in the future, the series follows the U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship. Its crew, both human and alien, face the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the problems of everyday life.
13) Stealth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2005
Language
English
Description
In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When a terrorist bomb destroys a building in Dallas, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are drawn into another dangerous conspiracy, this time with the assistance of a paranoid doctor. Together, they risk their careers and their lives to hunt down a deadly virus which may be exterrestrial in origin -- and could destroy all life on earth.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Stealth (ca. 121 min.): In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat maneuvers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.
Blue thunder (ca. 109 min.): Chosen to test Blue Thunder, Frank...
16) Vesper
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a thirteen-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed father, meets a woman with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths, and biohacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Captain Ed Mercer thrusts into space aboard the explorer ship the USS Orville. Joined by his first officer ex-wife and intergalactic crew, he grapples with everything from a planet-absorbing space anomaly to an overly amorous, gelatinous engineer.
18) Escape from L.A
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998, 1996
Language
English
Description
A chilling vision of the future, the film takes place in 2013, when Los Angeles has become a ruined landmark. Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
�2008
Language
English
Description
Contains four films about a computer hacker who realizes the world is an elaborate deception created by all-powerful machines of artifical intelligence. In Matrix, in an anti-utopian future, the "real" world is a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct and is now fighting for the future of the human race. In Matrix reloaded, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus continue...
Series
Publisher
Rhino Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"This second collection contains bits from the Cocktail Party, News of the Past, Present and Future, the Fabulous Farkle Family, the Joke Wall, as well as the "quickies," plus running jokes, sight gags and cameo stars featured in Episodes 16, 52, 54, 64, 65, and 87, which are some of everyon'es favorite shows."--Container.
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