Catalog Search Results
Series
Language
English
Description
Truman's life is a fake. He lives in a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere. His friends and people around him are actors who play their roles in the most popular television series in the world: The Truman Show. He thinks he is an ordinary man and has no idea about how he is being exploited. What will he do when he finds out?
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker receives a nasty bits from an irradiated spider and with miraculous, arachnid-like powers, his death defying heroism wins him admiration from those in need. As Peter heads off to college at Empire State University, he begins to gain the trust of new friends, M.J. and Harry, while the police call him a vigilante. But he meets the challenge by exercising his wonderful powers for the good of all.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets--
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katniss realizes the stakes are no longer just for survival; they are for the future. With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends; including Gale, Finnick and Peeta; Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to liberate the citizens of Panem, and stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lizzie and Shane are estranged teen sisters who live on opposite sides of the country. Much to their surprise, they are brought together for adventure as teammates on the TV show "The Challenge," set in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The prize up for grabs is a college scholarship and all they will need to do is perform daring feats, settle differences and keep their romances from the producers all at the same time.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Capitol, Katniss finally agrees to be the Mockingjay, the symbolic leader of the rebellion. Still uncertain as to whom she can trust, Katniss must help 13 rise from the shadows, all the while knowing that President Snow has focused his hatred into a personal vendetta against her - and her loved ones"--case.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this prequel to The Hunger Games, a young Coriolanus is the last hope for the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Snow reluctantly takes an assignment to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray's charm captivates Panem's audience, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow races against time...
10) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection ; 248
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation." --
11) Death to Smoochy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Venom-laced and the raucous rivalry of scandalized former kid-show host Rainbow Randolph and his squeaky-clean replacement, Sheldon Mopes, a.k.a. Smoochy the Rhino. Randolph is insanely obsessed with getting his job back, but Smoochy's a smash, and their war for kid-vid supremacy places a jaded "KidNet" producer in the middle of a Rainbow/Rhino smackdown.
12) Idiocracy
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Joe Bowers is an average Joe. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He becomes part of a government experiment to go into hibernation. The experiment goes awry and Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to this average Joe to get human evolution back on the right track.
13) Showtime
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Mitch Preston never wanted to be anything but a cop. Same for patrolman Trey Sellars. He always wanted to be a cop ... on TV. The two now have to come together to work for a TV show. Backed by a ratings-obsessed producer and coached in the finer points of TV copdom by a veteran star, Mitch and Trey soon becom America's favorite buddy cops. A brutal crimelord must be stopped - and that's where the shrapnel hits the fan.
14) The show
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After a dating show ends in violence, its host Adam Rogers and a ratings-hungry network exec launch a terrifying new program that promises fresh kills every week. The tension mounts as a kindhearted janitor joins the deadly program, hoping to help his struggling family survive at any cost." --
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Peter Falk returns as Lieutenant Columbo of the Los Angeles Police Department in seven mystery-packed TV movies that aired between 1994-2003, including Falk's last ever appearance as TV's greatest detective! Follow the always rumpled, eternally bumbling and constantly underestimated investigative genius as he takes on some of the most cunning criminals in his career with trademark wit, charm, persistence and ever-present cigar." --
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Peter Falk returns as Lieutenant Columbo of the Los Angeles Police Department in seven mystery-packed TV movies that aired between 1994-2003, including Falk's last ever appearance as TV's greatest detective! Follow the always rumpled, eternally bumbling and constantly underestimated investigative genius as he takes on some of the most cunning criminals in his career with trademark wit, charm, persistence and ever-present cigar." --
17) River
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"John River is a gifted police officer with a secret. As a man haunted by manifestations of the dead, including a tormenting killer, Thomas Cream and the murder victims whose secrets he must unlock, he walks a tightrope between maintaining respectability at work and managing his own fragile state of mind." --
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Join America's first line of defense against the supernatural as Jason and Grant, plumbers by day, ghost hunters by night, lead their team on five hair-raising explorations of America's most haunted military locations. Prepare to be scared with these 100 percent real investigations from the spine-tingling TV series.
19) The Interview
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two amateur TV hosts land an interview with the North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.
20) Cinema verite
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The behind-the-scenes story of 'An American Family', the revolutionary 1970s PBS documentary centered around the Loud family that launched a new television genre: reality TV.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request