Delroy Lindo
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in years, the entire Whitfield clan comes home to celebrate Christmas and learn through the drama and emotional baggage how to be a family once again.
2) Sahara
Series
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three intrepid adventurers, including the legendary Dirk Pitt, set out to claim a massive treasure and foil the efforts of a cadre intent on world destruction.
3) Cymbeline
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
When extortion, betrayal, and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures in this explosive, modern retelling of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy.
4) Crooklyn
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Director Spike Lee fashions a bold, flavorful picture of family life in a crowded but cozy Brooklyn neighborhood nicknamed "Crooklyn" by the Carmichaels, who experience one very special summer in their hometown under difficult but often wonderful circumstances.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 5 hr., 41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season four finds Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart navigating a very different landscape. After they lost their biggest client, Chumhum and their founding partner's name was tarnished, Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart were forced to accept an offer by a huge multi-national law firm, STR Laurie, to become a small subsidiary. Suddenly, all of their decisions can be second-guessed by the giant firm that is literally on top of them.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 8 hr., 11 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her friend's multimillion-dollar investment scam ruins Diane Lockhart's plan for retirement, wipes out her savings and taints her reputation, she is literally at a loss. In Season 1 of The Good Fight (from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King), a disgraced Diane is forced out of her own law firm and joins another distinguished company as a junior partner. She recruits Maia Rindell, a promising young attorney with her own baggage: Maia's...
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the...
8) Battlecreek
Publisher
Hannover House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry is a loner and a night owl who spends his time at an all-night diner and working the night shift at a gas station. A rare skin disease has forced him to stay out of the sun and kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire life. Then one night, a young woman's car breaks down and Henry's life changes forever.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives. Based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson's autobiographical play about his relationship with his guardian Rachel Crosby, set in 1950's and 1960's Lackawanna, New York. After the separation of his parents, young Ruben, a part-black, part-Hispanic child, is sent to live in a small-scale boarding house run by...
10) Ransom
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the son of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped, he defies the experts and turns the tables on the kidnappers in a last-chance effort to rescue his boy.
11) Malcolm X
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
13) Clockers
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drug-dealers engage in a power struggle with their boss, even as the leader is suspected of murder.
14) Up
Language
English
Description
Seventy-eight-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. He discovers too late that an eight-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell has stowed away.
15) Get Shorty
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loan shark Chili Palmer is bored with the business. So when he arrives in LA to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm, Chili talks tough, and then pitches Harry a script idea. Immediately, Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: He schmoozes film star Martin Weir, romances B-movie queen Karen Flores and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town.
16) Romeo must die
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rough-and-ready Han shares an attraction with Trish O' Day (Aaliyah) even though their families are rivals in a fierce Oakland turf battle. The two also share plenty of danger as they try to fine the real cause of the blood feud.
17) The core
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes has made a terrifying discovery: the Earth's inner core has stopped rotating. The planet's electromagnetic field is subsequently deteriorating, and within months, Earth will be destroyed. One hope remains: to send Keyes and an elite team of scientists in a subterranean craft to the center of the Earth. With mankind's fate hanging in the balance, they must do the unthinkable to detonate a nuclear device to reactivate the...
18) Bright angel
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A teenaged Montana boy, shaken by events at home, agrees to take a runaway girl to Wyoming so she can bail her brother out of jail.
19) Broken arrow
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1870, and former Union soldier Tom Jeffords is recruited to remove a tribe of Apache warriors from a U.S. Mail delivery route by any means necessary. Jeffords chooses peace instead of more killings and decides to learn the Apache way of life. He agrees to a peace treaty with Apache chief Cochise and marries a beautiful Native American woman. Tragedy strikes after the settlers break the peace treaty, but now it's Cochise trying to stop...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (627 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clockers (1995): a film about the violent world of drug dealing and its 24-hour dealers, known as "clockers."
Jungle fever (1991): explores the trials and consequences of interracial romance.
Do the right thing (1989): a portrait of urban racial tensions and a vibrant look at a day in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Mo' better blues (1990): a film about music and love.
Crooklyn (1994): The Carmichael family struggles to get by in 1970s Brooklyn....