Kevin Costner
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Language
English
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Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Dances With Wolves chronicles the exploits of Lieutenant John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) during the Civil War. After encountering and eventually being accepted by a Native American tribe, Dunbar's loyalties are put to the test when the army threatens his new home, forcing him to choose between white America or the natives he now calls "his people."
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Language
English
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Academy-Award®-winner Kevin Costner stars as John, a newly divorced father who moves into a rural South Carolina home with his adolescent daughter Louisa (Ivana Baquero of PAN'S LABYRINTH) and young son Sam (Gattlin Griffith of CHANGELING). But when Louisa begins to behave in a bizarre and increasingly violent matter, John must uncover the truth behind her transformation. Is the former owner's shocking secret to blame? And how far will a father...
3) Bull Durham
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Language
English
Description
The story of a minor-league North Carolina baseball team (the Triple A Durham Bulls) and its attentive, intelligent groupie who feels it is her mission to live with one young player per season and help him mature.
4) Swing Vote
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Language
English
Description
Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner), a beer-slinging loser, has one bright spot in his life: his precocious daughter, Molly (Madeline Carroll), who takes care of them both. However, on Election Day, Molly sets off an unforeseen chain of events that results in the race for the presidency coming down to just one vote: her father's.
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Language
English
Description
In bicycle parlance, David Sommers is a "wheelsucker," drafting through life, lacking the sprint to bridge the gap between the pack and the break. But the tragedies that David and his brother, Marcus, confront together teach him become a winner, to join Marcus as half of a pair of American Flyers. Academy Award winner Kevin Costner stars with David Grant and Rae Dawn Chong in this story of two brothers a sports medicine doctor and his very naturally...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The golden age of adventure stories returns with this splendidly designed, action-packed, globe-trotting tale that combines the bravura storytelling of Kipling with the irresistible style of "The Adventures of Tintin." Set against the backdrop of World War I, with Western Civilization on the edge of calamity, the first installment in The Explorers Guild series concerns the Guild's quest to find the golden city of Buddhist myth. The search will take...
Publisher
The Film Sales Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Academy Award Winner Kevin Costner, and directed by Emmy Award winner Ric Burns, PEOPLE OF STANDING STONE explores the little known, yet crucial history of the extraordinary contributions of one Native American people-the Oneidas-who during the darkest hours of the Revolutionary War became the only member of the Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy to side with rebelling colonists. This powerful and sweeping film, is a moving and unique cinematic...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The series revolves around the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest ranch in the US, which is under constant attack by those it borders: land developers, an Indian reservation, and America₂s first National Park. This is a world where land grabbers make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world₂s largest oil and lumber corporations. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a...
11) Fastball
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Hank Aaron and Derek Jeter lead a cast of baseball legends & scientists who explore the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever. Narrated by Kevin Costner. *"A fascinating and downright lovable documentary ..." - Joe Morgenstern, **Wall Street Journal*** *"If you are not familiar with this level of baseball nerdiness, then Fastball will be a revelation ... If you are...
12) Fastball
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
C2016.
Language
English
Description
Interviews of former players, from legendary Hall-of-Famers to up-and-coming All Stars.
13) Open range
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses...
14) McFarland, USA
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1987 true story, the movie follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California's farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White, a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring...
15) 500 nations
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact"--Booklet.
16) Mr. Brooks
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Brooks is a successful businessman, a generous philanthropist, a loving father, and a devoted husband. He is seemingly perfect, but he has a secret. He is also the notorious Thumbprint Killer, and no one has ever suspected it until now. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship.
18) Tin cup
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An unreachable shot to the green. A hopeless romance. Driving-range pro Roy McAvoy can?t resist an impossible challenge. Each is what he calls a defining moment. For Roy, golf is a head, and heart, game. On both counts, that?s where shrink Molly Griswold comes in. She?s big-city, Roy?s small-time, and he believes only the grandest of gestures can lure her away from a slick touring pro and earn her love. So Roy and his dutiful caddy set out to do the...
19) The company men
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follows a young Jack as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancé...