Steve Golin
Author
Language
English
Description
Women Who Invented the Sixties tells the story of how four women helped define the 1960s and made a lasting impression for decades to follow.
In 1960, Ella Baker played the key role in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which became an essential organization for students during the civil rights movement and the model for the antiwar and women's movements. In 1961, Jane Jacobs published The Death and Life of Great American...
2) Big miracle
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A Greenpeace volunteer and a reporter join together to save a family of gray whales caught in the Arctic ice.
5) Rendition
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect disappears on a flight from Africa to DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the U.S.
6) Bounce
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Buddy Amaral, a hotshot ad exec, gives his airplane ticket to a father hurrying to get home for the holidays. The airplane crashes that night, and guilt-ridden Buddy turns to alcohol. After going through rehab, he decides to look up the widow of the father, but after falling in love with her, he debates telling her exactly who he is.
7) Stillwater
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
8) Boy erased
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jared, the son of a Baptist preacher, is forcibly outed by his parents and forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program.
9) The revenant
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live and find redemption.
10) Uwantme2killhim?
Author
Language
English
Description
An online relationship turns deadly in this true-crime thriller about a handsome 16-year-old boy who promises anything and everything to a girl he meets online. When a devastating crime is committed, the unbelievable truth is revealed.