Mekhi Phifer
1) The suspect
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-town encounters their first armed bank robbery at the exact moment a mysterious stranger appears. With no ID and a combative attitude, the local police struggle to tie the crime to their uncooperative suspect, but the truth is far more complicated.
2) Insurgent
Series
Divergent volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Trisâ‚‚s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past...
3) Allegiant
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
4) Flypaper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A nervous bank customer has a crush on beautiful teller. They and the other staff and customers become hostages when two very different groups of crooks hit the bank simultaneously. When people begin mysteriously dying one by one, everyone involved begins to wonder if there's someone else in the bank up to no good.
5) Roots
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 389 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War. Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (914 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. These medical professionals remain determined to save lives in a place where nothing is taken for granted and nothing is certain, nothing except that another desperate person will be rushed through the emergency room doors in the next moment in need of their help.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (825 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this penultimate season of the powerful, award-winning series, personal tragedies threaten, and sometimes strengthen, relationships among the staff. And the patients bring their own compelling stories. A boy genius diagnoses his mysterious illness, a cancer-ridden prison doctor is haunted by the men he put to death, a woman arrives in the ER expecting her 13th baby. Triumph, loss, tears, joy, next!
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (975 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season 12 brings spiraling drama and suspense to the lives of ER veterans. Abby and Kovac share unexpected news. Gallant comes home from Iraq to be with Neela. Pratt goes to Darfur to work with Carter.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (987 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Continues to chronicle life and death in Chicago's Country General hospital emergency room. Portrays the plight of medical students in their quest to become physicians. Healing is teamwork and science with instant decisions and best guesses to be made. Joy one moment, tragedy the next, 24/7 readiness.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1,012 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former paramedic, now intern Dr. Tony Gates arrives with a straightforward attitude and a complicated personal life. Except for his devotion to healing, he's Gallant's opposite: brash, cocksure, with a bad-boy past, and maybe he's the right prescription for Neela's broken heart. Really shaking things up, Weaver leaves County General for a career move you wouldn't expect.
11) Brian's song
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Remake of the 1971 drama about the friendship between Chicago Bears football players Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (530 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When convicted child killer Oswald Danes miraculously survives his own execution, the footage holds America transfixed. And then everyone realizes that nobody is dying. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next. People keep aging, they get hurt and sick, but they never die.
14) 8 mile
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he's convinced he's missed his chance and that he's doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest of his days. With the help of his friends, and his new...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 379 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
DIVERGENT (2 hrs. 19 min.): Divergent is a thrilling action-adventure set in a future world where society has been divided into five distinct factions. Not fitting into any group, Tris (Shailene Woodley), a Divergent, is targeted by a faction leader determined to eliminate all Divergents.
INSURGENT (1 hr. 59 min.): Tris searches for answers and allies in this action-packed second adventure. On the run and targeted by ruthless faction leader Jeanine...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (986 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Television series about the work and lives of a group of emergency room doctors in Chicago. In this season, Carter's playful office love affair becomes a 24/7 crisis; Kovac's partying affects his performance; Weaver is promoted to a position outside the ER-- but Romano replaces her; Kovac and Carter decide it's time for a change and opt for assignment in Africa.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1,023 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Year 11 of the fast-paced series brings challenges and changes to the ER. Corday and Chen weigh work and family. Abby finds that being a good doctor is as tough as being a good nurse. Ray Barnett - doctor by day, rock star by night - arrives. Carter decides to leave; he set the tone, provided the example. His impact will endure.
