David Strathairn
61) Temple Grandin
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories.
62) Bad manners
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two unhappily married couples meet for dinner; their various flirtations and frustrations lead to one bad case of heartburn.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Widowed, broke, and adrift, farmer Fred Stern finds a new purpose in life when he learns that a multi-national oil company has been polluting his water. But as his crusade against the posers that spill out of the courtroom and into his personal life, Fred must find a way to avoid the ruin of his farm, his family, and his dreams. It pulls back the curtain on the culture of greed that poisons Corporate America, from sea to polluted sea.
64) Eight men out
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Traces the gambling conspiracy by members of the Chicago White Sox to lose the 1919 World Series in order to win a huge gambling payday.
65) Losing Isaiah
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A woman who has adopted an abandoned child to give it a new life has to fight for him when his birth mother shows up and wants him back.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
67) Godzilla
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
While investigating his mother's death in 1999 at a nuclear power plant, Ford Brody, discovers a conspiracy to hide the fact that giant monsters exist. But it doesn't take long for the world to also find out, as a "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism" attacks Hawaii and Godzilla turns up. Ford, a U.S. Navy officer who works with bomb disposal, helps the military to use warheads to defeat the monsters.
68) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
69) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan's miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut), arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company's violent...
Author
Series
Sacketts volume 17
Language
English
Description
Three Sackett brothers encounter treacherous enemies and dangerous trails on their cattle drive across the Dakota plains.
71) The lonely men
Author
Series
Sacketts volume 12
Language
English
Description
Lured by a beautiful woman into an Apache mountain stronghold, four men enter a contest that few would dare to enter and fewer could hope to win.
72) Eight men out
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Film about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal. The young, idealistic White Sox players who, despite being pennant winners, are treated with disdain by their penny-pinching owner/manager. Ripe for a money-making scheme, the demoralized team agrees to throw the World Series. But when they're defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes--Container.
73) The daybreakers
Author
Series
Sacketts volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After having to kill a man in Tennessee, Tyrel Sackett hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace. Orrin brought law and order from Santa Fe to Montana, and his brother Tye backed him up every step of the way. Till the day the job was done, Tye Sackett...
74) The people speak
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A look at social change throughout history, as seen through the music, poetry, speeches, and manifestos of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past - and present - including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, along with unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. Celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This star-studded recording brings to life a history-changing political battle.
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates made history and changed its course through seven legendary match-ups between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the 1858 Illinois senatorial race. Although he lost the election, Lincoln's gift for oratory and his antislavery stance made him a nationally known figure, and led to his election to the presidency in 1860. Never
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