Oliver Stone
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his privileged New York upbringing, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such landmark films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War and fall of Communism, this concise version of the larger book is adapted for the general reader. Complete with poignant photos, arresting illustrations, and little-known documents, The Concise Untold History of the United States covers the rise of the American empire and national security state from the late nineteenth century through the Obama administration, putting it all together to show how deeply...
8) Scarface
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami; wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name. Starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, this film has become a cultural phenomenon brilliantly directed by Brian De Palma and written...
9) Platoon
Language
English
Description
In "Platoon, " a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left...
11) Talk radio
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A Dallas "shock jock" unloads on his radio audience, just as he is poised to achieve national fame.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Four mothers. Four daughters. Eight stories. The Joy Luck Club is four women in San Francisco who have played mah jong together on a weekly basis to for forty some years. One of them, Suyuan, has died, and her daughter June is preparing to go to China. Auntie Lindo with daughter Waverly, Auntie Ying Ying with daughter Lena, and Auntie An Mei with daughter Rose are at the going away party. Born in China, the Joy Luck Club members came to America...
14) Wall Street
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young Wall Street broker is lured into the illegal world of corporate espionage and insider trading as he pursues the favors of the powerful and wealthy financier, Gordon Gekko.
15) W
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.
16) Nixon
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drama about the fall of Richard Nixon based on the view that a dark, murderous conspiracy controls the world.
17) Platoon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.
18) Any given Sunday
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Tony D'Amato, the embattled Sharks coach, faces a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new, marketing-savvy Sharks owner who's sure Tony is way behind times.
19) Zebrahead
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A young white man begins dating the cousin of his best friend, both of whom are black, igniting long simmering racial tensions at their high school.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Director Oliver Stone visits seven presidents in five countries in South America to gain some understanding about the political and social ideas and the revolutions, and to clear up how people view them. Includes interviews with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Argentinean president Cristina Kirchner, Cuban president Raul Castro.