Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
2) 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...
3) Gran torino
Publisher
Village Roadshow Pictures/Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Walt Kowalski, a Korean vet and retired autoworker, doesn't like the Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia that live next door to him, but he defends them from a local gang that feeds on violence.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
5) 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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1995
Language
English
Description
Robert Kincaid, a traveling National Geographic photographer, meets Francesca Johnson, an Iowa housewife. They are not looking to turn their lives upside down, but four days after meeting, they don't want to lose the love they have found.
7) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, 2006
Language
English
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he encounters a number of interesting characters in his search for information about his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key he left behind.
9) Sully
Publisher
Warner Bros. Ent
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger, nicknamed "Sully" glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career. Includes...
10) Gravity
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...
12) Argo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
CIA agent Tony Mendez tries to help six Americans escape Tehran by disguising himself and the hostages as a film crew and hiding in plain sight of the Iranians who have taken over the U.S. embassy.
13) Swing shift
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1984
Language
English
Description
When most of the young blue-collar men leave to fight in World War II, America's women step in to support the war effort by filling their vacancies.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
15) The aviator
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Depicts the life of Howard Hughes - billionaire, industrialist, movie producer, inventor, aviator - and the love affairs, Hollywood stardom, corporate battles and brilliant aeronautical invention that defined him from the mid-1920s through the 1940s.
16) Singles
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999, c1992
Language
English
Description
This tale of Seattle twentysomethings searching for and running from love, centers around a romantically aloof rocker and his lovestruck neighbor who hopes to get him to change his tune.
17) The informant!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre.
18) J. Edgar
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
"J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years ... was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life"--Container.
19) We are Marshall
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the efforts of coach Jack Lengyel to rebuild the football program at West Virginia's Marshall University after thirty-seven team members, coaches, and others were killed in an airplane crash in November 1970.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families...