Robert Redford
1) All is lost
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006, 2005]
Language
English
Description
Einar Gilkyson lives a quiet, stoic life as a rancher in Wyoming. His estranged daughter-in-law Jean shows up unexpectedly, broke and desperate, with the grandaughter Einar never knew he had. Jean and Einar learn to put their old grievances aside and make peace, not just with each other but with themselves.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-winning director Robert Redford captures the majesty of the Montana Wilderness and the strength of the American family in this acclaimed adaptation of Norman Maclean's classic autobiography. Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, and Brad Pitt also stars as his brother Paul, an irresistible daredevil driven to challenge the world. Growing up, both boys rebel against their stern minister father. While Norman channels his rebellion into...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follow the great Colorado River as it reveals the most pressing environmental story of our time, the world's growing shortage of fresh water. Join environmental advocates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Wade Davis as they travel the Grand Canyon.
9) Buck
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Follows Buck Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. He eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with horses through leadership and sensitivity.
10) Jeremiah Johnson
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A man seeks out the solitary life of the mountains in the mid-19th century, learning his skills from a veteran.
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn.
"The best kind of blockbuster...
12) The natural
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Roy Hobbs determines to fulfill his boyhood dream of being a baseball superstar; he is making progress when a mysterious woman shatters his dream and later, overcoming physical pain, he has a chance to lead his team to the pennant.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Grace MacLean and her friend Judith go horseback riding, but their horses slip on ice and slide onto a road, where Judith and her horse are killed. Grace has her right leg amputated, and the incident leaves a trauma on Grace and her horse. Grace's mother seeking Grace's recovery, learns about a horse trainer with a special gift, so she takes Grace and the horse to Montana.
14) Ordinary people
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.
15) Brubaker
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.
16) The sting
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A 1930's ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con-man seek revenge on a crime lord who murdered one of their friends.
17) The way we were
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Sensitive and moving tale of the romance of two individuals whose political and religious ideologies are exact opposites. Streisand plays a Jewish student radical in love with a conservative young Protestant writer.
19) The conspirator
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
20) Pete's dragon
Author
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.