Bernard Hill
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This heartwarming comedy centers on two brothers, John Joe and Jimmy, who haven't seen each other in twenty years. Having parted on bad terms, they meet at the All Ireland traditional music finals as leaders of rival Irish dance bands.
Publisher
Film Ideas
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"John F. Kennedy--the President who risked his political career in return for sex. Using recently released FBI files and eyewitness accounts, this documentary reveals JFK's long string of affairs and lovers in the context of events at the time. The historical significance of his dalliances is heightened by the fact that he placed sexual gratification above national security multiple times." --
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.
4) Wolf Hall
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king...
Publisher
Science Channel
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein changed the world with four papers that led directly to the development of atomic weapons, space travel, satellite technology and a profound understanding of the universe. But, wracked with guilt over the real-world applications of his science, specifically, how the use of atomic weapons clashed with his religious beliefs, Einstein spent the last half of his life desperately trying to disprove the implications...
6) Wild China
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold, and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild, and rare creatures.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Emily Watson stars in this powerful, emotional story about the choice between love and loyalty. As a child, Maggie Tulliver adores her brother Tom and desperately seeks his love and approval, but never receives it. While Tom grows up to be the kind of person the world approves of - dutiful and proud, Maggie becomes the kind of person the world judges harshly. A woman ahead of her time, brimming with intelligence and imagination, Maggie is difficult...
10) ParaNorman
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grownups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's nearly unfilmable work to the screen, Jackson benefited from extraordinary special effects, evocative New Zealand locales, and an exceptionally well-chosen cast, but most of all from his own adaptation with co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, preserving Tolkien's vision and often his very words, but also making logical changes to accommodate the medium of film. While purists complained about these changes and about...
13) Golden years
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After five decades of law-abiding, tax-paying citizenship, retired couple Martha and Arthur are forced into an unexpected life of crime in this star-studded comedy heist caper." --
14) True crime
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boozing, skirt-chasing and hard-living reporter realizes a death row prisoner scheduled to die at midnight is innocent. He races against time to save the man and perhaps lift his own life out of the trash heap.
15) Franklyn
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Preest is a masked vigilante detective who is searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City, a monolithic metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervor. Esser is a broken man who is searching for his wayward son amongst the rough streets of London's homeless. Milo is a heartbroken thirty-something desperately trying to find a way back to the purity of first love. Emilia is a beautiful art student whose suicidal art projects...
16) The Grid
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
US and UK forces join to combat an intricate organization of international terrorists plotting a set of vicious attacks against the US in this action-packed, edgy, tense and emotional mini-series.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's advantage. The assassins are betrayed by the son of one of the tribal leaders, and Mathayus finds himself unable to kill Cassandra. Mathayus abducts the sorceress, who explains that Memnon was...
18) Titanic
Language
English
Description
Deep-sea explorer Brock Lovett has reached the most famous shipwreck of all, the passenger liner Titanic. Emerging with a safe believed to contain a diamond called "The Heart of the Ocean," he finds that the safe does not hold the diamond but a drawing of a beautiful woman wearing it. When Brock is interviewed on TV, he shows the drawing to the cameras. A 100-year-old woman named Rose Calvert recognizes the woman in the drawing as herself! On a visit...
19) Gothika
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Miranda Grey is a clinical psychologist who works alongside her husband, Doug, in the mental ward of a top security prison, where Miranda has been devoting much of her attention to a clever but deeply disturbed murderer named Chloe. One night, Miranda has a hideous nightmare in which a chance meeting with a strange young girl. Once she wakes, however, Miranda discovers that the real horror has just begun.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Fellowship has been broken. Boromir is dead; Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee have gone to Mordor alone to destroy the One Ring; Merry and Pippin have been captured by the Uruk-hai; Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli have made friends of the Rohan, a race of humans that are in the path of the upcoming war, led by its aging king, Theoden. The two towers between Mordor and Isengard, Barad-dur and Orthanc, have united in their lust for destruction. The...