Don Cheadle
Author
Language
English
Description
An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan, with readers' help. While Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby Sudan. In September 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell termed the atrocities being committed there "genocide" -and yet two years later things have only gotten worse. 3.5 million Sudanese are going...
3) Hotel Rwanda
Author
Language
English
Description
The film chronicles the true story of Paul Rusesabinga (Don Cheadle), a brave hotel manager who risked his life and those of his family to take in more than 1,000 refugees during the 1994 genocide of the Tutsus by Hutu militia.
Author
Language
English
Description
They weren't born to be wild. It just turned out that way. John Doe of the band X, Adam Horovitz of The Beastie Boys, counterculture icon Timothy Leary and John Cusack star in the hip, offbeat story of a biker on a quest to honor a dying friend's wishes by delivering the man’s ashes to a bar in El Dorado, Nevada. Somewhere along the way, this ragtag band of slackers assumes the mantle of Roadside Prophets.
5) The guard
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Two cops... one an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other a straitlaced FBI agent, must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang"--Container.
6) Iron Man 2
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Now that the world knows billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the armored super hero Iron Man, his life has suddenly become even more intense. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for power or profit, but for Ivan Vanko, it's revenge. With Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, Stark must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet.
7) Talk to me
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The life of Ralph Waldo 'Petey' Greene portrayed in this immensely entertaining and inspiring true story. Ex-convict Greene talks his way into an on-air radio gig with program director Dewey Hughes, and his unprecedented 'tell it like it is' style breaks all the rules while electrifying a city and bringing a nation together when it needs it the most.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth's Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an...
Author
Language
English
Description
On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body.
Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death,...
11) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
13) Miles ahead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
14) Iron Man 2
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Now that the world knows billionaire inventor Tony Stark as the armored superhero Iron Man, his life has suddenly become even more intense. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for power or profit, but for Ivan Vanko, it's revenge. With Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, Stark must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet.
16) Flight
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Executive produced by three of the celebrated masterminds behind the groundbreaking Funny or Die website, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy, this half-hour sketch-comedy series provides a creative forum for dozens of America's most talented comedians, actors, and writers all contributing segments to the so-called 'Funny or Die Network' in an anything-goes comedy environment.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black commumnity of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In season four of this viciously funny take on high-stakes business, failure is not an option. Fresh from a stint in prison, brilliantly manipulative management consultant Marty Kaan is driven to rebuild his faltering firm. Nothing's going to distract him, even if that means booting his extremely pregnant off-and-on partner Jeannie.
20) Ocean's twelve
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ocean's Twelve reintroduces Ocean and his perfectly trained team of con men. Dividing forces to hit Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome, the heist-meisters move beyond casinos to tackle new objectives, one of which involves stealing a famous painting.