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2) Traveller
Publisher
Artison Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
While teaching another man how to scam people, Bokky, a Southern con-artist, begins to see his marks as human beings and becomes confused about his loyalty to his fellow swindlers.
3) Big trouble
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Two hitmen show up in Miami to whack crooked businessman. At the same time Matt, a high school kid, comes to the same house to "kill" another student as part of a game. When the plans collide, mayhem ensues, and Matt's struggling ex-columnist dad, a bored wife, and two confused police officers are called to the scene. Then two dimwitted criminals choose to hold up a dive bar where a nuclear arms deal is going on. Soon the whole motley crew are caught...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but not very bright, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. Events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters!
7) Red
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Witness to History is a series of award winning documentary films that focus on specific moments in history. Using archival footage and voice over narrative, these videos give the viewer a "you are there" sense of world events. Each film is between 12-15 minutes and is ideal as either a discussion starter or to reinforce a lesson plan. Popular with teachers all over the world, each of these titles reinforces important points in history.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Newtown school shooting. Aurora theater shooting. Tucson supermarket shooting. Are visceral reactions to tragedies trumping the words of our forefathers? Should we allow fear and the growing concern over public safety to limit our civil liberties? Dead Patriot Films presents Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, a documentary that brings audiences to the center of the controversy over the issue that is dividing our nation - gun control. Narrated by...
12) Rain man
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him only rose bushes and a '49 Buick convertible. Feeling cheated out of what he thinks should be his 3 million dollar inheritance, he kidnaps the autistic brother he never knew he had, and takes him on the ride of his life.
13) Ask the dust
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A young Italian would-be writer comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets Camilla, who is hoping to marry a rich American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California.
14) Jumanji
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Young Alan Parrish is sent to the jungles of Jumanji as he plays a mysterous board game. Twenty-six years later he is set free when two children play the game. Together they must outwit the powerful game, before new problems occur.
Publisher
Carson Johnson Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This film explores the three questions crucial to determining fair use exemptions and presents illustrative examples from nonfiction, fiction, and experimental films that use pre-existing footage, music and sound from other individuals' creations--without permission or paying fees. Through on-camera interviews with noted documentarians, film and legal experts, OPF also reviews relevant court cases and clarifies legal issues regarding trademark, parody,...
16) Jarhead
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
Follows Marine enlistee Swoff through basic training and active duty in the Middle East during the Gulf War.
17) Canadian bacon
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1995
Language
English
Description
The United States president and an arms maker conspire to plant rumors of an imminent nuclear attack by Canada. A bordertown sheriff plans a counter-offensive.
18) Pollock
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt;...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With the tremendous success of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn litteraly transformed a generation's conscience. Zinn talks about those who have no voice in the official History : Slaves, Indians, deserters, textile workers, union men.Between 1900 and 1920, more than 14 million immigrants arrived in the United States. They came...
20) 10 mph
Publisher
Spinning Blue
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
10 MPH is a comical documentary that follows Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell as they quit soul-numbing job and turn a friend's ludicrous idea into a movie.
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