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Don Cheadle
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body. Willie finds himself in a strange purgatory-- the bardo-- where ghosts commisserate quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance ... and where a struggle erupts over...
2) Iron Man 2
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Now that the world knows billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the armored super hero Iron Man, his life has suddenly become even more intense. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for power or profit, but for Ivan Vanko, it's revenge. With Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, Stark must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Jack Campbell, a workaholic Wall Street exec, gets to see what his life might have been like if he'd stayed with his former sweetheart, Kate. Thirteen years after they split up, Jack falls asleep in his posh New York apartment, then awakens to find himself a family man, with his now-wife Kate, daughter Annie and new baby.
4) The guard
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Two cops... one an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other a straitlaced FBI agent, must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black community of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows.
6) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When two orphans, living with foster parents who don't allow pets, keep secretly caring for their dog discover stray dogs in an abandoned hotel, they fix up the building and get help from their friends to run the new shelter.
8) Rosewood
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1923 a black town in Florida was burned to the ground, its people murdered because of a lie. Some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people.
9) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The deeply moving true story of a five-star hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict. Bonus features included.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
11) Flight
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.
12) Volcano
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A volcano erupts in Los Angeles and destroys everything in its path.
13) Iron man 3
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tony Stark/Iron Man finds his entire world reduced to rubble, he must use all his ingenuity to survive, destroy his enemy, and somehow protect those he loves. But a soul-searching question haunts him: Does the man make the suit-- or does the suit make the man?
14) Swordfish
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A criminal mastermind blackmails a hacker into helping him.
15) Mission to Mars
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
NASA launches a Mars Recovery Mission to investigate and bring back survivors from the first manned mission to Mars which has mysteriously disappeared.
16) Traffic
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Presents a mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his increasingly drug-addicted...
17) Miles ahead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
18) Talk to me
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C., in the mid-to-late 1960s, vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to become a unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr. to fully express himself and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the new ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with Dewey Hughes....
20) Out of sight
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A career bank robber busts out of jail with the help of his buddy and kidnaps a U.S. Marshal in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big heist, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in.