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(0)Matt Damon
Author
Language
English
Description
Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system -- the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across our country.
2) Rounders
Author
Language
English
Description
Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) loses his money in a poker game against Russian gangster Teddy "KGB" (John Malkovich). Under pressure from his girlfriend, Jo (Gretchen Mol), he promises to quit gambling. This lasts until his friend, Lester "Worm" Murphy (Edward Norton), gets out of prison and needs to pay off an old debt. The pair come close to earning the money back but are caught cheating. Then Mike finds out the debt is owed to Teddy and makes one...
Author
Language
English
Description
The People Speak is a beautiful and moving documentary film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States-one of the best-selling history books in the United States-and Voices of a People's History of the United States, the primary-source companion to A People's History of the United States, edited with Anthony Arnove. The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestos) of rebels, dissenters,...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
When his grandfather dies and his absent mother sells the family ranch, John Grady Cole finds himself without a home or a job, and decides to leave Texas with his best friend, Lacey Rawlins, hoping to find work as a cowboy.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Jason Bourne has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar. He has been able to reconnect with Marie, the woman he loves. But Bourne is still haunted by vivid dreams and troubling memories of his days as a killer, and he's not really certain how much really happened and how much is a product of his imagination. When Bourne is led out of hiding by circumstances beyond his control, he must reconcile his past...
11) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
12) Oceans thirteen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After his friend Reuben Tishkoff is double-crossed in a Las Vegas real estate investment deal by the shady casino owner Willy Banks, Danny Ocean decides to reunite his team of criminals, including his former enemy Terry Benedict, to get revenge.
13) Invictus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
14) Ocean's eleven
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
15) Boston
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From its humble origins 120 years ago to present day, BOSTON immerses the viewer into the wondrous kaleidoscope of the oldest annually contested marathon in the world. Evolving from a workingman's challenge to welcoming foreign athletes and eventually women, the iconic race paved the way for the modern marathon and mass participatory sports.
18) American Teacher
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the debate over the state of America's public school system rages on, one thing everyone agrees on is the need for great teachers. Yet, while research proves that teachers are the most important school-based factor in a child's future success, America's teachers are so woefully underpaid that almost two thirds must divide their time between a second job in order to make a living. Chronicling the stories of five teachers in different areas of the...
19) Gerry
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Two friends that call each other GERRY decide to hide in the wilderness in order to see something. However, they do not find what they're looking for. They decide to return to the car but they get lost in the desert, without water, supplies or a compass. Now they have to walk, trying to find the road to survive. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
20) Gerry
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"A pair of best friends, who've nicknamed each other 'Gerry', set out on a desert hike. But what begins as a simple daytime adventure turns into an intense life-and-death journey that will test the strength of human endurance and ultimately their friendship" -- Container.