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Language
English
Description
A group of Americans are interested in raising the ill-fated Ocean liner Titanic. One of the team members finds out the Russians also have plans to raise the ship from its watery grave. Why all the interest? A rare mineral on-board could be used to power a sound beam that will knock any missile out of the air when entering United States airspace!
3) Truman
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of Harry S. Truman's life, with comments by contemporaries and historians.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, hard-luck milkman Melvin Dummar picks up a bum in the Nevada desert. The old man claims to be Howard Hughes and eight years later, Dummar finds himself a beneficiary in the Hughes will. Dummar becomes an instant celebrity while trying to cash in on the fortune.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Eugene O'Neill's magnificent autobiographical account of his turbulent family life is brought to the screen with an overpowering wealth of talent. Katharine Hepburn as the mother - lonely, ravaged by narcotics and frightened by a world with which she cannot cope. Ralph Richardson as the alcoholic father, a miser embittered by his expired career. Jason Robards as the tortured older brother, a failure to everyone including himself. And Dean Stockwell...
8) Quick change
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill Murray, Academy Award winner Geena Davis and Randy Quaid star as a trio of first-time bank robbers who commit an audaciously perfect crime ... but then find the heist much easier than getting out of New York City with the loot in this hilarious crime caper.
11) Burden of dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 287
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Goes behind the scenes in the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
13) Philadelphia
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Story of two competing lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
14) Parenthood
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
15) The paper
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A day in the life of those working at a New York City paper, including the editor of the paper, who is considering leaving the paper for a higher-paying job that has less hours, but is considerably more boring.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1224
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Sam Peckinpah's cycle of genre-redefining westerns ended with this blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality. As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid across the plains, their old friendship is twisted into rivalry, and mythic ideals of freedom come up against an emerging ruling-class order all to the strains of a haunting soundtrack by Bob Dylan...
Series
Controversial classics volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
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Description
The story of the investigation of the Watergate break-in by two Washington Post reporters that drove a U.S. president from office.
19) The Civil War
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling, Ken Burns's epic documentary brings to life America's most destructive -- and defining -- conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one."--Back of container.