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43) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
**Oscar** winner Mike Nichols superbly directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy about a small group of pilots in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. CATCH-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions. Nominated for The UN Award and Best Cinematography...
46) The departed
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police 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...
51) Downwind
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
52) Storm
Author
Language
English
Description
A meteorologist sets out to derail the top secret weather-manipulating program he mistakenly became a part of.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction puts their religious convictions to the test, and also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship...
54) The Vessel
Author
Language
English
Description
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Author
Language
English
Description
Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of social movements. Narrated by Martin Sheen.
56) Rage
Author
Language
English
Description
His son is dead. He is dying. Overnight, Dan Logan's peaceful world has been shattered. A military installation has accidentally dumped a fatal dose of experimental nerve gas over Logan's Wyoming ranch and dropped a veil of secrecy over the "incident." With no one to turn to for help, Logan becomes both judge…and executioner. Playing Logan, George C. Scott stars both before and behind the camera in this blistering thriller also featuring strong...
57) Salinger
Author
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.
Author
Language
English
Description
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story is the compelling true story of the "American Mother Teresa" and how she served New York's poor and became a voice for the voiceless. The film shows Dorothy's struggle as she establishes the Catholic Worker movement and commits herself to a lifetime of peacemaking, battling for justice, and hands-on service to the poor. Viewer discretion strongly advised.
60) The Double
Author
Language
English
Description
When a United States Senator is brutally murdered, the evidence points to a Soviet assassin code-named Cassius, who was long-thought to be dead. Two men who know Cassius best are thrown together to catch him. Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere, An Officer and a Gentleman) is a retired CIA operative who spent his career tracking Cassius around the globe. Ben Geary (Topher Grace, Spider-Man 3) is a hotshot young FBI Agent and family man who has studied...