Paul Haggis
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Nominated for seven **Emmys**, this acclaimed documentary examines the controversial Church of Scientology and how the church attracts and holds onto its followers.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank is a retired Sergeant with the Military Police. He receives a call informing him that his youngest son, Mike, has gone AWOL. He thought his son was in Iraq, but is informed that Mike returned stateside four days ago with his platoon. When he calls his son's cell phone and gets voice mail, he drives to Fort Rudd and begins to make inquiries, but with each inquiry he comes to a dead end. Then a body is found, dismembered and burned beyond recognition...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. Since his painful estrangement from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone. His only friend, Scrap, is an ex-boxer who looks after Frankie's gym. He knows that Frankie has been seeking forgiveness for the past 25 years. Then Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym. Maggie is a waitress with a dysfunctional family. She...
4) Crash
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
7) Crash
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], 2004
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements.
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Edition
[2-disc] widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching, the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing and the pair form a touching bond in the process.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 1082 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police comes to Chicago to track down his father's killer. He stays and partners with Ray Vecchio, a local Chicago detective, to solve crimes.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. When he agrees to train her and she raises to the top, they form a special bond.
12) Show me a hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 358 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.
13) Casino Royale
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved...
14) Casino royale
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Bond's last mission before he becomes 007, Bond must stop a corrupt banker who is planning on winning a poker tournament and using the money to pay back a terrorist group that is after him.
Publisher
Dreamworks Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : digital, col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics...
Publisher
CBS Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1,065 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day hero who still believes in living the frontier code, Cordell Walker's methods are right out of the Old West-- but his independent ways pay off when it comes to putting bad guys behind bars. With his partner James "Jimmy" Trivette, ex-Ranger buddy C.D. Parker, and beautiful assistant D.A. Alex Cahill, Walker takes a hands-on, no-holds-barred approach to fighting injustice in one thrilling, action-packed case after another.