Laurence Fishburne
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Event Horizon is the high-tech, pioneering reserach spacecraft that has mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistnet signal from the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team to wing its way throught the galaxy on a bold rescue mission.
2) Passengers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two passengers board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction, only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 516 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and kids, Dre's efforts to enlighten are exhausting. Forced to...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2018, acclaimed Broadway and film actor John Leguizamo embarked on an exploration of Latino history with his Tony-nominated play, Latin History for Morons. Inspired by his quest to uncover Latino and Latina heroes and their contributions, the new three-part series VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos brings Leguizamo's passion from the stage to the screen. In this series, Leguizamo takes viewers on a captivating journey, delving...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
John Wick uncovers a trail to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful associations across the globbe, and forces that turn old friends into foes.
7) Roots
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (383 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil war. Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
8) The mule
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Rental.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel's...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...
10) 21
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack card counting. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben...
11) The Matrix
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Blu-ray version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A computer hacker discovers that reality is nothing more than an elaborate facade called the Matrix, created by super-intelligent robots that have enslaved mankind and are using their bodies as a power source.The reality is that the world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun to control humans.
12) The Matrix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The day-in, day world is the real world is merely perception. In reality it is a hoax perpetrated by an all-powerful artificial intelligence that control us. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct, and is now fighting for the future of the human race.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Super assassin John Wick has a fourteen million dollar price tag on his head after killing a member of the High Table, the shadowy international assassins' guild. Now excommunicado, and with an army of the world's most ruthless hit men and women on his trail, John must find a way to survive in this third chapter of the adrenaline-fuelled action series.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Blu-ray version].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray Disc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Neo discovers that somehow he is able to use his powers in the real world and that his mind can be freed from his body. As a result of which he finds himself trapped on a train station between the Matrix and the Real World. Meanwhile, Zion is preparing for the oncoming war with the machines with little chance of survival. Neo's associates set out to free him from The Merovingian since it's believed that he is the One who will end the war between humans...
15) Contagion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
[Rental edition].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
16) The signal
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[Blu-ray version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 38 minuntes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Nic, his girlfriend, Haley, and his buddy, Jonah take a detour from an idyllic cross-country road trip when they are contacted by a mysterious hacker who has gained entry into MIT's secured network"--Container.
17) The Civil War
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (700 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Blu-ray version].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray Disc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until Zion falls under siege to the Machine Army. Not much time separates the last human enclave on Earth from the 250,000 Sentinels programmed to destroy humankind. But the citizens of Zion, emboldened by Morpheus' conviction that the One will fulfill the Oracles Prophecy and end the war with the Machines. This rests all manner of hope and expectation on Neo, who finds himself stalled by...
19) Boyz n the hood
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three friends struggle to survive in South Central Los Angeles where friendship, pain, danger and love form a true picture of life in "the hood."
20) Man of steel
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Edition
[Blu-ray version], Rental widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.