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1) Stand by me
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Description
This film about friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up takes place in a small Oregon town as four boys set out on a two-day search for a missing teenager's body, a search that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery.
Description
Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts creates an extraordinary car called Chitty chitty bang bang. It not only drives--but also flies and floats--as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious into a magical world of pirates, castles and adventure. There, the group encounter a host of unforgettable characters, including Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria, his persnickety wife, a lovable village toymaker and an evil child...
Publisher
Learning Seed
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Culture is like eye color. Your eye color is obvious to anyone who sees you, but you cannot see the color of your own eyes without some kind of reflection. Everybody's Ethnic helps viewers hold a mirror to their own culture. Discover yourself by exploring other cultures.. Travel by video to Mexico for a Day of the Dead celebration, witness a funeral in Bali, explore food in Hong Kong, and see street life in New Delhi to learn about our "invisible"...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
8) Braveheart
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
William Wallace is a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Homeward Bound: A fun-loving bulldog, a wise old golden retriever, and a hilarious Himalayan cat travel through the rugged Sierras in a search for their missing human family.
Homeward bound II: When Chance, the American bulldog; Sassy, the Himalayan cat; and Shadow, the golden retriever accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, the pets navigate the streets of San Francisco, trying to find their home across the Golden Gate Bridge....
10) Hotel Rwanda
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a five-star-hotel manager who uses his wits and persuasion in striving to save more than 1,200 Tutsis and Hutus from being massacred by the Interahamwe militia during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
11) I am Sam
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks, is obsessed with the Beatles and has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them. As the daughter reaches age 7, Sam's limitations start to become a problem. When the authorities take his daughter away, Sam shames a high-priced lawyer into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
12) The Free World
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An Ex-Con attempts to start a new life only to be sucked back into the underworld in this romantic thriller. Elisabeth Moss, Octavia Spencer star.
13) Without Limits
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c1998]
Description
Steve Prefontaine was a champion's champion, holder of every American distance running from 2,000 to 10,000 meters. Fans elevated him to rock star status. Athletes were inspired by him. Off the track, officials mired in outdated politics got the point that activist Pre was taking the sport into a new era. The short life and fast times of the fiery Oregon distance runner form a movie that "belongs in the company of Jim Thorpe - All American and Chariots...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Description
Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.
15) Blue Hawaii
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Though his mother (Angela Lansbury) expects him to climb the corporate ladder, Elvis would rather wear an aloha shirt than a white collar. Defying his mother's wishes, Elvis goes to work as a tour guide where he entertains a car full of cuties. This rockabilly romp is sure to make any lover of the king of rock and roll smile! Nominated for Best Written American Musical by the **Writer's Guild of America**.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A sex-addicted French financier, a fateful hotel room encounter, and a scandal that would rock the world; the mighty Gerard Depardieu gives a fearless performance in this ripped-from-the- headlines saga of sin and sleaze from boundary. Inspired by one of the most high-profile public implosions in recent memory, follows a prominent international banker as he spirals out of control during a drug and sex-fueled trip to America, culminating in a shocking...
17) Mark Twain
Series
Formats
Description
Samuel Clemens rose from a hardscrabble boyhood in the backwoods of Missouri to become, as Mark Twain, America's best-known and best-loved author. Considered in his time as the funniest man on earth, Twain was also an unflinching critic of human nature who used his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed and racism. He created some of the world's most memorable characters as well as its most quoted sayings. And, in his often-misunderstood novel "Huckleberry...
Formats
Description
American graffiti: Four teenagers come of age on their last summer night before college in 1962.
More American graffiti :The gang from American graffiti are back to explore the impact of the turbulent 60's, a time of crisis, war and social revolt, marking the end of an era of innocence for them. They find themselves in the eye of the storm of the 60's: Vietnam, Haight-Ashbury and the campus peace movement. Features the period's greatest hits by artists...
19) Windtalkers
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
20) Clockstoppers
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Zak Gibbs is an ordinary teenager who suddenly obtains extraordinary powers when he stumbles upon a mysterious wristwatch-type device that can literally stop time in its tracks.
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