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(0)Harrison Ford
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Profiles soft-spoken Southerner E.O. Wilson, a naturalist renowned for his scientific study of ants that led to his 1975 book Sociobiology : the new synthesis, where he put forth the notion that evolutionary principles could explain social behavior throughout the animal kingdom, including in humans. Shows the evolution of sociobiology from a controversial new discipline to one supported by experimental science that has shown that genes do play a role...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with a prologue in which a young Indiana Jones is introduced, the epic continues with the adult Indy embarking on a perilous quest for his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. The Nazis are on the trail of the Holy Grail, and have kidnapped the professor, who is an authority on the Cup of Christ. Indy inches through rat-filled catacombs, battles Nazis in biplane dogfights, and braves the firepower of unstoppable tanks.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
After barely escaping a Shanghai nightclub brawl, Indiana Jones crash-lands into the wilds of India where he uncovers a scheme that has enslaved a remote village's children. Indy must save the children and avoid becoming a slave himself to the evil Thuggee cult.
8) Ender's game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
10) Morning glory
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
For Becky, running a TV show in New York City was the big break she dreamed of, until star co-anchors Mike and Colleen declare an all-out, on-air war. Making the show work with its cast of eccentric characters and outrageous story angles will take a major miracle, but Becky is ready to rise and outshine.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
On the fast track and ready to taste the success of corporate America, John Crowley walks away from it all in hopes of finding a cure for two of his fatally ill children. With his wife Aileen by his side, he teams up with brilliant, but unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill, and together they form a company to develop a life-saving drug. But just when it appears that a solution may be found, the relationship between the men is tested and...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A dream vacation turns into a hilarious tropical nightmare when a rough-hewn cargo pilot takes a sharp-tongued yuppie on a quick flight to Tahiti, only to crash in a storm, stranding the two on a deserted island.
14) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Director's cut, Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2019 in Los Angeles, replicants, genetically engineered human beings of superior strength and intelligence, commandeer a space shuttle to Earth. Blade runner, Rick Deckard, a police officer who hunts down and terminates replicants is coerced into exterminating the replicants.
15) Firewall
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Bank security expert Jack Stanfield specializes in designing infallible theft-proof financial computer systems. But there is a hidden vulnerability in the system he didn't account for - himself. When a ruthless criminal mastermind kidnaps his family, Jack is forced to find a flaw in his system and steal $100 million. With the lives of his wife and children at stake and under constant surveillance, he has only hours to find a loophole in the thief's...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Indy tries to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator. Teaming up with a rebellious young biker and his spirited love Marion, Indy takes you on a breathtaking, action-packed adventure.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Science fiction tales of derring-do, heroism and romance. Set in the distant past, they relate the adventures of Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo as they battle the forces of the evil Imperial Army.
20) Armstrong
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dramatic, moving and insightful, this documentary tells the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in rural Ohio, through aerial combat in Korea, to his first steps on the Moon, and the unwanted celebrity status that ensued.