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Joe Morton
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen: Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there — and how they fought their way out.
This is the story of war.
Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S....
This is the story of war.
Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S....
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant. In E. L. Doctorows hands the great march becomes a floating world, a...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"This epic series presents Africa throughthe eyes of its people, conveying the diversity and beauty of the land and the compelling personal stories of the people who shape its future." --container.
Episode 1, Savanna homecoming: Witness the splendor of East Africa's golden plains in this story of two women and their journeys between bustling cities and rural landscapes. Through these personal tales, set against a backdrop of age-old animal migrations,...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s was the scene of a passionate outburst of creativity by African-American visual artists. Rich archival footage, including newsreels and photographs, recalls the influential force of the exhibitions, the vibrancy of Harlem and the many significant personalities that shaped the movement, such as William E. Harmon, W.E.B. DuBois and Alain Locke.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, bent on conquest, the German strategies became completely amoral, challenging and perhaps ending the concept of 'civilized warfare.' Through interviews with veterans, historians and ethicists from all the countries engaged in World War II, this American Experience film recounts the story of the Anglo-American bombing campaign against Germany, exploring the moral conundrums imposed by the reality of the war.
11) Mr. Tornado
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore “Ted” Fujita spent months studying The Super Outbreak of 1974 – the most intense tornado outbreak on record. Follow the story of the man whose research helped Americans respond to dangerous weather phenomena.
12) NOVA: Addiction
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
As the deadliest drug epidemic in US history rages, follow the cutting-edge work of doctors and scientists as they explore how ADDICTION affects the brain, and how we should address our opioid crisis.
13) Dragonfly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Joe, is a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily who died in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe feels obligated to check in on his wife's pediatric patients, fulfilling a promise he made before she left. Visiting the ward, Joe starts to believe that Emily is using the near-death experiences of her terminal patients to communicate with him, through images the children report seeing in their dreams,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall, from its construction in 1961 to the opening in 1989. Examines the lives of ordinary citizens caught in the politics of the Cold War, the extraordinary efforts of East Berliners to cross to the West, and the birth of the freedom movement in East Germany's Protestant Church.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In this vastly amusing, offbeat fantasy, Sayles takes a fresh look at our society through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial (Joe Morton) who crash-lands on Earth -- in Harlem -- and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his original and eye-opening journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?"...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years after the Brothers' original mission for God, Elwood Blues is getting out of prison and discovering that much has changed in the time he's been away. He embarks on a whole new mission--to reassemble the old band and set a wayward orphan on the path to redemption.
18) Speed
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist, Jack Traven, is sent out to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a city bus. Annie, one of the passengers on that bus, must now keep the bus speeding through the streets of L.A. at more than 50 miles per hour. If she goes below 50, the bomb on board the bus will detonate.
19) Of mice and men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
20) Bounce
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.