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Richard Roundtree
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of human relationships, while Ursula's lover Lyle is looking for her and the one who took her. After they are found, Ursula takes George to the USA.
4) Moving on
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Claire and Evelyn are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard, the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph, her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend.
5) Brick
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Brendon Frye is a loner, someone who always knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determined to find the 'who' and 'why'.
7) Earthquake
Publisher
MCA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A powerful earthquake rocks Los Angeles.
8) Shaft
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords, Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
Publisher
CBS/Paramount
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In the sixth season, he faces his toughest obstacles. How will MacGyver outwit a serial killer, an unstoppable assassin and an enemy agent who endangers a friends life? In every exciting episode, the problems are deadly, but the solutions are pure adventure.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Count of Monte Cristo (Classic tale of injustice, revenge and retribution, in which Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of conspiring with Napoleon!); Man Friday (Classic story of survival and heroism takes on a whole new perspective in this 1975 version of Robinson Crusoe.)
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Count of Monte Cristo (Classic tale of injustice, revenge and retribution, in which Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of conspiring with Napoleon!); Man Friday (Classic story of survival and heroism takes on a whole new perspective in this 1975 version of Robinson Crusoe.)
12) Shaft
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather duster, there's no denying family....
13) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boys' abduction to America and continues throughout the generations that follow.
14) Shaft
Series
Criterion collection volume 1130
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters,...