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Ron Silver
Author
Language
English
Description
The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater.
2) Ali
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay) and defies the U.S. government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight champion title thus stripped from him entirely for political reasons,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Instead of ratting out friends, family, and colleagues, mobster Giacomo DiNorscio decides to go to court and defend himself against criminal charges, leading to the longest running mafia trial in U.S. history.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow attempt to murder his wife Sunny at their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? The tabloids of the day certainly had their opinions. "You have one thing in your favor," defense attorney Alan Dershowitz told von Bulow, "Everybody hates you." Reversal of Fortune is the acclaimed movie version of events that had all America talking.
5) The entity
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
When hardworking single mother Carla Moran is repeatedly attacked by an assailant she cannot see she finally turns to a parapsychology team for help.
6) Lifepod
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A lone Lifepod drifts helplessly through space light years from the nearest support station. With scarce food, water, oxygen and communications, nine survivors on this ill-equipped spacecraft fight for their lives. Deadly meteor and asteroids threaten from the outside, but the real enemy will come from within.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In The Arrival, radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky follows an extra-terrestrial radio signal and discovers a plot of alien invasion. In Arrival II, an investigative reporter and reluctant computer programmer must convince the government that a sinister alien conspiracy could wipe out the human species.
9) Timecop
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In the year 2004, time travel is not only a reality, it's an opportunity-- for criminals of the future to alter the past for profit and power. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this sci-fi action-thriller as embittered timecop Max Walker-- toughest member of the elite "Time Enforcement Commission" which was created to enforce one simple rule: no one goes back. But Walker may have met his match in the person of Senator McComb, a corrupt ruthless politician...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, a time when women had few choices, Bess Steed Garner inherits a legacy not only of wealth but of determination and desire, making her truly a woman of independent means. Adapted from the epistolary novel, this film follows the life of Bess Steed Garner from her childhood in 1899 to her death in 1977. Bess endures life's trials and triumphs of life with unfailing courage and indomitable spirit: the sacrifices love sometimes...