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-- Apollo thirteen.[2005], p1995., General, Universal Call No: DVD Fic Apollo Edition: 2-disc anniversary ed. ; [Widescreen ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It had been less than a year since the first man walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight. That is until the words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded in a crippled spacecraft 205,000 miles from Earth, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and the efforts of a heroic ground crew race against time - and the odds - to bring the men home.
![Apollo 13 [DVD] (1995). Directed by Ron Howard.](/Library/images/~imageCT70005.JPG "Apollo 13 [DVD] (1995). Directed by Ron Howard.")
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c2003., General, Paramount DVD Call No: DVD Fic Core Edition: Full screen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Full screen DVD collection.Summary Note: A team of scientists attempt to restore the earth's magnetic field by drilling to the core and restarting its rotation.
![The core [DVD] (2003). Directed by Jon Amiel.](/Library/images/~imageCT66072.JPG "The core [DVD] (2003). Directed by Jon Amiel.")
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-- Jour d'aprèsc2004., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic DayA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this pulse-pounding action-thriller, global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age. As tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than any they've ever encountered: Mother Nature!"--Container.
![The day after tomorrow [DVD] (2004). Directed by Roland Emmerich.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The day after tomorrow [DVD] (2004). Directed by Roland Emmerich.")
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2016., Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Finest Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
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2005, p2004., General, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Flight P Edition: Fullscreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
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-- Impossible2013., General, Entertainment One Films Canada : distributed exclusively in Canada by Entertainment One Call No: DVD Fic Impossible Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Maria (Naomi Watts) and Henry (Ewan McGregor) are on a family Christmas vacation in Thailand, enjoying their beachfront resort when their world is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to them, a huge earthquake across the ocean has triggered a massive tsunami...one of the most devastating natural catastrophes on record. This is their story."--Container.
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c2009., Summit Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Knowing Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. With the reluctant help of the daughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John's increasingly desperate efforts take him on a race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster and the ultimate sacrifice.
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c2012., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Call No: DVD Fic Melancholia Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a mystery planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth."--Container.
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-- Variole2010., Adult, distributed exclusively in Canada by Mongrel Media and the National Film Board Call No: DVD 363.348 L674o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Pandemics have killed more people throughout history than all wars combined. They are unpredictable <U+2014> and inevitable. Are we ready for the next big one? Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague juxtaposes a 21st century scenario against the little-known story of the 1885 smallpox epidemic that devastated Montreal. Revisiting North America<U+2019>s last major encounter with the dreaded "Red Death," it vividly evokes a modern city under siege. By the late 19th century Montreal was Canada<U+2019>s leading metropolis, and smallpox was preventable. So when an inbound train conductor displayed symptoms of the disease, authorities should have been able to contain the infection. But a string of fatal errors and mishaps would muddy the waters -- and a tainted batch of vaccine would sow panic and mistrust in a city already divided by language, religion and class. Epidemics feed on chaos <U+2014> and by the time it had run its terrible course, the 1885 plague had claimed over 2500 lives, mostly children from the city<U+2019>s impoverished French-speaking slums. This cautionary history injects Outbreak with dramatic urgency, as Dr Teresa Tam <U+2014> who oversees Canada<U+2019>s Federal Emergency Response Team -- joins epidemiologist Michael Libman and other experts to speculate on the possible trajectory of a contemporary pandemic."--NFB.
![Outbreak [DVD] (2010) Directed by Jefferson Lewis : anatomy of a plague.](/Library/images/~imageCT75064.JPG "Outbreak [DVD] (2010) Directed by Jefferson Lewis : anatomy of a plague.")
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By Russell, Kurt Lucas, Josh Dreyfuss, Richard Barrett, Jacinda Rossum, Emmy, 1986- Vogel, Mike, 1979- Maestro, Mía Bennett, Jimmy, 1996- Braugher, Andre Fleiss, Mike Goldsman, Akiva Henderson, Duncan Petersen, Wolfgang Protosevich, Mark, 1961- Gallico, Paul, 1897-1976 Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ) Virtual Studios Radiant Productions (Firm) Next Entertainment (Firm)c2006., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Poseidon Edition: DVD format ; widescreen version ; special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Over 2,000 passengers and crew are celebrating New Year's Eve aboard the luxury cruise ship Poseidon on the open sea. Without warning, a rogue wave hundreds of feet high slams into the ship and rolls it upside down. Most of the passengers and crew are killed outright, but several hundred remain alive in the ballroom, where the party was being held. Realizing their only hope of rescue lies at the surface of the water, a handful of survivors start to make their way past falling debris, flash fires, and the ever-present threat of flooding. Their destination is the ship's propeller shafts.
![Poseidon [DVD] (2006) Directed by Wolfgang Petersen](/Library/images/~imageCT75509.JPG "Poseidon [DVD] (2006) Directed by Wolfgang Petersen")
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c2011., Adult, distributed by Warner Home Video distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: BLK DVD Fic Treme 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Treme Volume: 2Summary Note: "Over a year has passed since Katrina, but residents are finding it harder than ever to rebuild their lives, much less hold on to their special cultural identity. Some have left to become expatriates in places like New York. Others have been forced to sell their homes to outside developers. Crime and drug use are up, and corruption and graft has dried up money intended for recovery. So why bother to stay? Because it's New Orleans. And New Orleans must go on."--Container.
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2007., Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Zero H Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Cult camp classic.Summary Note: A wrong dinner selection gives food poisoning to the pilot and first officer of Flight 714-- and that could mean doom for everyone aboard. This film was later spoofed in the comedy "Airplane!".
![Zero hour! [DVD] (1957). Directed by Hall Bartlett.](/Library/images/~imageCT82258.JPG "Zero hour! [DVD] (1957). Directed by Hall Bartlett.")