Beau Bridges
Author
Language
English
Description
I don't know how much longer I'll be here. Maybe I'll have another five years. Maybe, with the advances in oncology, they'll find new treatments for my cancer that will extend my life. Maybe I'll be gone before you read this. My predicament is, well, rather unpredictable. But I'm prepared for either contingency, or at least I'm getting prepared. I have some things I'd like to take care of first, some work that needs finishing, and some people I need...
Author
Language
English
Description
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely -- Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) -- to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized...
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stranded after their small plane crashes in a remote location high in the mountains, two strangers realize help is not coming so they set out across the wilderness trying to survive the elements and wild animals to save themselves.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After a night out with friends, a Korean-American teenager accepts a late night ride home from a young firefighter only to be abducted and forced into prostitution by a human and drug trafficking ring. Renamed 'Eden' by her kidnappers, she soon learns the only way to survive is to earn the trust of those in charge. But as Eden's influence within the operation grows, she must decide just how much of herself she's willing to lose to survive.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar bills and pocket change.
7) Norma Rae
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story.
8) Mosaic
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story focuses on the brutal New Year's Eve disappearance of a high-profile resident of picturesque Summit, Utah, and the four-year effort of law-enforcement officers and civilians to arrive at the truth behind the crime.
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...
10) Max Payne
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A maverick cop seeks revenge for the murder of his family and finds himself in a world where the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred.
11) Smile
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Lin lives in a world of quiet hardship in China, longing to live without fear or shame. Katie lives in a world of pampered ease in Malibu and wants something new and challenging in her life. When these two come together, their lives are forever changed.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After young Kirra arrives in South Africa to summer with her grandfather, she discovers a baby orca stranded in a lagoon near a rundown amusement park. She names the lonely whale Willy and embarks on a quest to lead the little guy back to his anxious pod before he becomes a captive at the theme park.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
14) Lawless range
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Brothers Sean and Tommy Donnelly live and work in modern-day Texas. Tommy has always been troubled and Sean has always been there to help him, but when Tommy gets himself $6,000 in debt, there's not much Sean can do. The money is owed to some very dangerous people and neither Sean nor Tommy has a spare dime. Worse, at every turn, Tommy manages to find a way to exacerbate their already difficult position.
16) NightJohn
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a new slave named NightJohn is brought to the plantation, he opens a whole new world for Sarny because he has forbidden talents. He can read and also he can teach. As she learns to read she learns the power of words and the unconquerable strength of the human spirit.
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this cult classic comedy from writer-director Del Shores, a gay West Hollywood actor returns home to his small Texas town for his grandmother's funeral. As he reconnects with the three generations of his dysfunctional family, the hilariously trashy truth of their "sordid lives" is revealed.
18) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
19) Max Payne
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Max Payne works in the cold-case unit at the police department. He becomes obsessed with finding the killer who brutally murdered his wife and infant daughter. Max becomes hell-bent on revenge and is determined to track down those responsible for the murder of his family. Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world.
20) The wizard
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A boy decides to take his autistic video game-playing brother to a national video game competition across the country.