MGM (Firm)
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award®-winning director Michael Moore is back with "WHERE TO INVADE NEXT": a provocative and hilarious comedy in which Moore will stop at nothing to figure out how to actually make America great again.
2) Powaqqatsi
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A five-part dreamscape about the nature of civilization, this presentation by Francis Coppola and George Lucas is an imagery-rich, music-filled companion piece to KOYAANISQATSI that dazzles the mind's eye. With music by Philip Glass, POWAQQATSI is an intense and wondrous experience.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Winner of an Academy Award® for Best Documentary, filmmaker Michael Moore's "Bowling For Columbine" takes a somewhat humorous and oft-times serious look at firearms in the United States. Traveling throughout the country, Moore sets out to discover why Americans are so obsessed with their guns, which time and time again lead to violence. Moore also touches upon the tragedy at Columbine High, interviews NRA President Charlton Heston and takes on companies...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A motion picture essay which takes a revealing and shocking look at modern life and its imbalances. The first film in a trilogy which was followed by Powaqatsi.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a shipwreck leaves a young boy, Alec (Kelly Reno), and “The Black,” a wild Arabian stallion, stranded on a desolate island, the two share an adventure of survival which forges a lasting friendship. Upon their rescue, Alec and his new friend return home and continue their adventures when they join forces with ex-jockey and horse trainer, Henry Dailey (Mickey Rooney), who takes them under his wing and prepares them to compete with the world’s...
6) The Yes Men
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A "genderless, loose-knit association of some three hundred impostors worldwide," THE YES MEN perpetrate an elaborate and elegant form of culture jamming that has duped accountants in Sydney, professors in Tampere and lawyers in Salzburg. Chris Smith and Sarah Price, along with co-director Dan Ollman, documented several of these appearances and the impeccable planning that made them possible.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Best friends Lennie (John Malkovich) and George (Gary Sinise) find themselves out of work in Depression-era California, unable to keep jobs because of Lennie’s childlike mind. But when they get hired at the Tyler Ranch, they finally find some stability – until their supervisor’s wife (Sherilyn Fenn) becomes a victim of Lennie’s compassion, forcing George to make a heart-wrenching decision.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) fills her days by reading the personals and following an ongoing romance between "Jim" and "Susan" (Madonna), mysterious drifters who seem to lead the kind of free-spirited lives she can only dream about. And dream she does until, one day, she actually shows up at the couple's pre-arranged rendezvous in New York City. After a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns her into Susan and opens the...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (126 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson star in Arthur Penn's intense and startlingly realistic western classic. Rancher David Braxton is a self-made man who has transformed his rugged land into a vast empire. So when his livestock, fortune and family are threatened by a ruthless horse thief (Nicholson), Braxton hires a sadistic bounty hunter (Brando) to track down the outlaw, initiating a complex series of events that result in brutality and savagery far...
10) Killer's Kiss
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A struggling New York boxer, Davey Gordon (Jamie Smith), finds that his life is in danger when he protects a dance hall girl, Gloria (Irene Kane), from her vicious gangster boss, Vinnie Rapallo (Frank Silvera). The two then decide to leave the city and travel to Seattle for a fresh start. But Rapallo is a man who doesn’t like to lose. Once he discovers their plans, Rapallo sends a few of his thugs to put an end to them in this dazzling film noir...
11) Hidden Agenda
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Frances McDormand and Brian Cox confront danger and deception at every turn in this chilling and explosive story set in strife-torn Northern Ireland. American activist Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) and his fiancé Ingrid Jessner (McDormand) journey to Belfast to probe allegations of human rights abuses by British security forces. Now, with their safety in jeopardy, they must decide whether to risk everything to uncover a shocking high-level conspiracy....
12) Child's Play
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This riveting thriller about a doll inhabited by the soul of a serial killer (Brad Dourif) will be your "friend to the end!" Only six-year-old Andy (Alex Vincent) realizes that Chucky -- the doll his mother (Catherine Hicks) has given him -- is responsible for a spate of gruesome murders. But the real terror begins when the detective investigating the murders (Chris Sarandon) is smitten with Andy's mother, and Chucky becomes determined to transfer...
13) The Defiant Ones
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Winner of two Oscars® for Best Writing and Cinematography, “THE DEFIANT ONES” broke new ground by delivering its story of racial intolerance through a fast-moving blend of action and suspense. Joker (Tony Curtis) and Noah (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run from a Southern work gang, bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by an unbridled hatred toward each other. Relentlessly pursued by a posse and bloodhounds, they...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Angela De Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) is stuck in a marriage to a philanderer who also just happens to be a mobster, but she gets a new lease on life when he's iced by a ruthless kingpin (Dean Stockwell) who's always had a thing for Angela. Kissing the mafia arrivederci, Angela finds a new job in a beauty salon, but Stockwell is hot on her trail, determined to make her his mob mistress. Now, Angela must choose between helping the FBI or spending the...
15) Thief
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (123 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Michael Mann ("Manhunter") directs a stunning piece of neo-noir set in the rain-soaked streets of Chicago and starring James Caan ("Rollerball") at his toughest. Caan plays Frank, a jewel thief and former convict who is looking to settle down with his girlfriend (Tuesday Weld, "Who'll Stop The Rain?") and begin a family. But when his ‘fence’ is thrown from a window and the Chicago mafia begin to flex their muscles, his hopes of a quiet life become...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Blown away by an unknown local band called the Sex Pistols, TV personality Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) is inspired to invent a uniquely anarchic record label. Soon he’s promoting everyone from New Order to Happy Mondays on his newly formed Factory Records and partying like a rock star. From Tony’s speedy rise to Factory’s hedonistic fall, "24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE" captures the musical madness that was 1970s Manchester. Directed by Michael Winterbottom...
17) Blue Velvet
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Clean-cut college boy Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) finds his Mayberry-like hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field. His investigation catapults him into an alluring, erotic murder mystery involving a disturbed nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) and a drug-addicted sadist (Dennis Hopper). Soon Jeffrey's led deeper into their depraved existence, finding himself obsessed with this dark, enigmatic underworld...to the point...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The unusually bright thirteen-year-old Rynn Jacobs (Jodie Foster) lives in a big old house with her reclusive poet father ... all alone. Or does she? Her nosy landlady, Cora Hallet (Alexis Smith), and Cora’s lecherous son, Frank (Martin Sheen), suspect that young Rynn is hiding a dark and dangerous secret. But Rynn is determined to preserve her isolated existence at any cost - especially if anyone dares to go down in the cellar! Scott Jacoby also...
19) Into the Blue
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Paul Walker and Jessica Alba heat up the screen as two divers who dream of finding hidden treasure. When they take some friends (Scott Caan, Ashley Scott) on an extreme sport adventure, the last thing they expect to see below the water is a legendary pirate ship rumored to contain millions in gold. But their good fortune is short-lived, as a ruthless gang of deadly criminals gets word of what they have uncovered, and the discovery of a lifetime could...
20) Out of Time
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Denzel Washington stars in this spell-binding thriller that co-stars Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan and Dean Cain. In a small Florida town bordered by azure seas and sultry secrets, Chief of Police Matt Whitlock (Washington) finds himself caught in the eye of a storm. Investigating the murder of a woman he was secretly seeing, Matt races to uncover a murky trail of stolen money, drugs and deceit, all the while staying two steps ahead of his own detectives......