Boaz Yakin
Author
Language
English
Description
When Justin's older brother, Kyle, is killed in Afghanistan, Justin can't believe that his brother is really gone. Except there's one thing that Kyle left behind ... Max is a highly trained military canine who has always protected his fellow soldiers. But when he loses his handler and best friend, Kyle, Max is traumatized and unable to remain in the service. He is sent home to America, where the only human he connects with is Justin, and he is soon...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In 1971, after leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone. How these two men overcome their differences, and turn a group of hostile young men into champions, plays out in a triumphant story full of soul and spirit.
3) Max
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An elite FBI squad in a game of cat and mouse against 'The Four Horsemen', a super-team of the world's greatest illusionists. 'The Four Horsemen' pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of the law.
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
Five criminals gather to pull off a heist in Mexico. On the way to their place of rendezvous, one of them wanders into the wrong bar, and crosses the wrong vampire. One by one, the thieving cohorts develop a taste for blood to match their hunger for money.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Jerusalem is the story of a single family--three generations of very different people--as they are swept up in the chaos of nation-making from 1940 to 1948. Love, death, faith, family, and politics form the perilous mix that fuels this ambitious, cinematic graphic novel about the events surrounding the creation of the modern Israeli state."--Dust jacket.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment/Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.
9) Safe
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for.
10) Uptown girls
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Molly is the daughter of a deceased rock legend who is, for the first time in her life, forced to work after her manager steals all her inheritance. With help of her friend, Molly becomes the nanny of Ray, the precocious daughter of a busy music executive. She learns as much about being an adult from Ray, as she teachs Ray about being a child.
11) Marathon
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In graphic novel form, tells the story of Eucles, the Athenian messenger who, in 490 B.C., ran twenty-seven miles from Sparta to Athens, preventing the fall of Greece to the Persian Empire.
12) Aviva
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aviva is a young Parisian who develops an online romance with Eden, a New Yorker. After a long courtship, they meet in person and fall in love, settling into an intimate relationship that leads to marriage. But their lives are not without struggle, for inside both young lovers exists warring factions of masculine and feminine energies battling for primacy inside and out of the bodies that contain them." --
13) The rookie
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Car thieves take a police veteran hostage, putting pressure on his latest partner to save him.
14) Max
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal.
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust...
17) The punisher
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Lashing out from a labyrinth of subterranean sewers, The Punisher leads a heavily armed raid into a world of brutal crime and savage retribution, where the guilty will be punished.
Publisher
Newport Public Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Longest yard: Filmed on location at the Georgia State Prison. Semi-pro football is played with the cons as the heroes and the guards as the heavies.
Any given Sunday: Tony D'Amato, the embattled Sharks coach, faces a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new, marketing-savvy Sharks owner who's sure Tony is way behind the times.
Concussion: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu,...
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Set against the decedent glamour and escalating danger of revolution-era Cuba. Katey is a young American woman, who, with her family move to Cuba and discovers love, sensuality and independence. Katey persuades Javier to partner her in a prestigious national dance competion at Havana's Glittering Palace. They secretly meet to practice their dance moves at a steamy night club, where the dancing is hotter than the temperature outside. As the competetion...