Gene Hackman
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Publication Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An account of the historic WWII battle of Iwo Jima, recounted through interviews with nearly fifty participants and documented through war footage and photographs, including the celebrated image of the raising of the American flag photographed by Joe Rosenthal.
4) Hoosiers
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Publication Date
c1986
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
5) Get Shorty
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Publication Date
1997, c1995
Language
English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
6) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Publication Date
©1996
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A gay couple reluctantly accept a son's intention to marry a woman, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the household is turned upside down.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Publication Date
2001, c1988
Language
English
Description
After three civil rights workers are killed in a small Mississippi town in 1964, two FBI agents come to town to work on the case. The agents run into trouble with the local autorities, who are members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Publication Date
2000, c1974
Language
English
Description
A routine wire-tapping job turns into a nightmare as surveillance man Harry Caul hears something in his recording of a young couple in a park that may lead to their murder. Caul begins to worry about the couple, and gets personally involved.
10) The firm
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Publication Date
2000, c1993
Language
English
Description
Harvard Law grad Mitch McDeere takes a job with a small prosperous Memphis firm that offers him a lifestyle beyond his imagination. When the FBI approaches him with evidence of corruption and crime ties, he must choose between his sense of right and his personal safety.
11) Antz
Series
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment [distributor]
Publication Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Life is no picnic for Z, a small worker ant with some very big ideas, whose chances with the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. When Z convinces his soldier ant buddy to switch places with him, his simple life takes a wild turn.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Publication Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Superman, the movie: As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him. But the time comes when Superman's powers for good are revealed to the world. Superman battles with supercriminal Lex Luthor and his cohorts as they attempt to destroy California by activating the San Andreas fault.
Superman II: This epic takes up where...
15) The Birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Publication Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In this hysterical comedy, Armand (Robin Williams) and Albert (Nathan Lane) have built the perfect life for themselves tending to their gaudy Miami nightclub. But their pastel tranquility is shaken when Armand's son announces that he's getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley (Gene Hackman)...and they're all getting together for dinner! Can Armand and Albert transform themselves into Mr. and Mrs. Family Values in time?...
16) Wyatt Earp
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Publication Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The biography of the legendary Wyatt Earp, including the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral.
17) Absolute Power
Publisher
Warner Bros
Publication Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed, and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
18) Under suspicion
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Publication Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Two men. One night. The police captain on the island of Puerto Rico interviews a prominent tax attorney and old friend-- the witness to one of a shocking series of brutal crimes. But what begins as a cooperative conversation between peers descends into a night of intense interrogation between fierce adversaries. A hidden past. A secret life. Witness or suspect? Guilty or innocent?
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"Robert Clayton Dean is a successful Washington D.C. attorney who-- without his knowledge-- is given a video that ties a top official of the National Security Agency to a political murder! Instantly, every aspect of Dean's once-normal life is targeted by a lethal team of skilled NSA surveillance operatives, who wage a relentless, ultrahigh-tech campaign to discredit him and retrieve the incriminating evidence!"--Container.
20) Unforgiven
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Publication Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The town of Big Whisky people try to lead a quiet life. Sheriff 'Little Bill' keeps heavy-handed order. Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid, ' and aging killer William Munny. Munny is a widower trying to raise his two young children. Farm life is hard and Munny is no good at it. He calls on his old...