Walter Brennan
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (900 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is a television series about a family named 'McCoy' who leaves their native West Virginia to settle on a farm in the San Fernando Valley in California. The family is dominated by Grandpa Amos McCoy, the lovable, obstinate patriarch of the family.
5) Red River
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (224 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 60s, your decade opened with John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States; the cartoon The Flintstones appeared on Television for the first time; Chubby Checker started a new dance craze with the sensational twist; the U.S. men's ice hockey team won gold in the winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California; and Alan Shepard made the first U.S. space fight.
Over-the-Hill Gang: With the help of three "over-the-hill"...
7) Rio bravo
Series
Language
English
Description
On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (431 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
10) Those Calloways
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a story about a man whose private dream of establishing a bird sanctuary interferes with commercial development of a hunting resort. Shows the conflict that arises when he takes the law into his own hands. Designed to motivate students to assess their own feelings of responsibility to the environment and to other people.
12) Gary Cooper
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (280 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fighting caravans: A young frontiersman and his 'wife' join a wagon train headed West where he becomes the sole trail guide as they battle Indians and a villainous gun-runner. Adapted from a Zane Grey novel.
Meet John Doe : In order to keep her job, a reporter concocts the sensational story of an unemployed middle class worker who plans to strike a blow against society and big government.
A farewell to arms: An American ambulance driver and English...
13) Dakota
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brawling western saga with John Wayne battling land grabbers in the Dakota territory.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The moving, true story of New York Yankee immortal Lou Gehrig, the southpaw slugger who rose to the very top of the sport, only to be cut down at the peak of his career by an incurable illness.
16) The gnome-mobile
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jasper, a two foot high gnome, has been searching for a suitable bride to please his 900 year-old grandfather. He gets help from two children after a chance encounter with them in the forest. Trouble ensues when a showman discovers the gnomes and masterminds a kidnapping plot.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77, 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. He then attends his own funeral.
19) Sergeant York
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rio Bravo: A Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody. The Searchers: A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.