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2) Son-in-law
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1994]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
L.A.'s funkiest college student, Crawl, is hilariously out of his element when he spends Thanksgiving at the family farm of a straitlaced college co-ed.
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman return in this eighth installment of the popular television series Mythbusters. Using modern day science to test everyday myths and urban legends, the special effects experts determine which myths are busted and which are plausible.
Publisher
Scream! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
'Knock once to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead' ... So goes a disturbing urban legend involving an abandoned house supposedly inhabited by a vengeful, child-stealing witch. When troubled teen Chloe raps at the door one night, she has no idea the horror she is about to unleash.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story from 1998, five LatinX and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher.
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman return in this ninth installment of the popular television series Mythbusters. Using modern day science to test everyday myths and urban legends, the special effects experts determine which myths are busted and which are plausible. In this collection, more of life's burning questions are answered including: Can bees lift a laptop? What's the most hygienic sneeze technique? and Can a hair weave really stop a speeding bullet?...
Publisher
Film Ideas, Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A film documentary about the lives of inner city youths. It is s story of an inner city baseball team with a dedicated coach, and players who use their talents and drive to survive a neighborhood formerly known as the "crack capital" of the world.
10) Livin' right now
Author
Publisher
Guitar Monkey Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
A concert presented by Keith Urban at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles.
11) Brooklyn castle
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
I.S.318 is an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level, that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. The film follows the challenges these kids face in their personal lives as well as on the chessboard.
12) Campfire tales
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Language
English
Description
Returning home from a concert and driving wrecklessly, four teenagers crash their car on a deserted road. To keep company, they each tell creepy stories. As each story becomes more lurid, horrifying, and shocking, the biggest shock is yet to come.
13) Unexpected
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Samantha Abbott is a dedicated and passionate teacher at an inner-city Chicago high school. Just as she is coming to terms with her school closing, Samantha faces some life-changing and unexpected news: she is pregnant. After breaking the news to her live-in boyfriend John and opinionated mother, Samantha learns that one of her most promising students, Jasmine, has landed in a similar but very different situation.
14) Won't back down
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, Jamie Fitzpatrick tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school.
15) Moonlight
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Spanish subtitled version]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
**Oscar-winner** for Best Picture, MOONLIGHT is a moving and transcendent look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to adulthood, as a shy outsider dealing with difficult circumstances, is guided by support, empathy and love from the most unexpected places. Winner of multiple **Oscars** including Best Picture, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Adapted Screenplay....
Publisher
Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Language
English
Description
This drama is based on events in the life of Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. Clark uses persistence and unconventional methods to reach his students and encourage them to reach their full potential.
Publisher
DocuRama
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Paints a poignantly captivating, unflinching, and relevant portrait of the children of Stanton Elementary School in North Philadelphia, an inner-city neighborhood where 90% of the students live below the poverty line. As seen through the devoted and determined viewpoint of principal Deanna Burney, this shows Stanton as grossly underfunded, understaffed, and filled with children struggling to overcome their difficulties. However, for these at-risk...
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Experience the passion, the drama and every heart stopping moment. Television's favorite doctors now find themselves simmering in a world of sexual politics. Bailey struggles with what it means to be a woman in charge of the hospital, and her own husband, while Maggie faces the challenges of dating a younger man.
19) The hurt locker
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate...
Publisher
Discovery Communications Inc
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Join Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman on their quest to separate fact from fiction as they challenge commonly held beliefs. Throughout this series from the Discovery Channel, they debunk urban legends using modern-day science mixed with good-natured fun to separate the real ... from the really out there.
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