Paul Winfield
Publisher
First Look Media
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Mai and Dwayne were refugee children in Vietnam when Harold and Dee Williams, an African-American couple living in Los Angeles, adopted them. Now that the children are adults, they remain close to their parents, especially Dwayne. Mai announces that she's located their birth mother, Thahn, and she's flying her to L.A. Dee takes the news hard: she sees herself being replaced. Harold is more sanguine, and Dwayne pretends to be indifferent. When Thahn...
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 24
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
What begins as a two-hour road trip to a neighboring town turns into an all-day adventure for Ira and Maggie Moran.
5) Carbon copy
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When an uptight executive discovers he has a long-lost black son, his tidy world goes hopelessly and hilariously awry in this wickedly funny comedy.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Honeydripper (2007): 1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend go awry and Tyrone is forced...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scienist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses"--Container.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ms. Frizzle rockets the class off on a field trip to outer space, then takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet with adjustable gravity. The entire class has a 'spacey' adventure when the bus shrinks and gets stuck inside an empty jar, when they find that their only hope for escape is air!
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan--a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth--is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk ... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This musical rendering of Mark Twain's classic captures the genuine friendship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Strong-willed and self-raised, Huck decides to flee his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, when his cruel absentee father tries to kidnap him. Accompanying him is the sharp-witted Jim, who fears he is about to be sold. As this unlikely pair journey north to freedom, they develop a bond of friendship and mutual respect that will help them brave...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Cliffhanger: When a group of thieves who have hijacked $100,000,000 bound for a Denver credit union crash in the Rocky Mountains, a former ranger and his partner respond to their call for help.
Vertical Limit: A young climber launches a rescue effort up K2 in a race against time to save his sister and her summit team.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005, 1982]
Language
English
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
Language
English
Description
The execution of Raymond Graham -- It's 9:00 p.m. In only two hours, the life of convicted killer Raymond Graham (Jeff Fahey, Wyatt Earp) will end by lethal injection in the prison's deathchamber. With chilling realism, this drama probes the inner life of a troubled murderer, as his apathy turns into terror as the final moments of his life slip by.
Taking back our town -- A mother of three and an elderly woman join forces to fight a ruthless corporation...
14) Cliffhanger
Series
Language
English
Description
For Rocky Mountain Rescue, the mission is almost routine: locate five climbers. With the woman he loves and his best friend, Gabe Walker braves the icy peaks only to discover that the distress call is really a trap set by merciless international terrorist Eric Qualen. Against explosive firepower, bitter cold and dizzying heights, Walker must outwit Qualen in a deadly game of hide-and-seek.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Star trek: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everything in its path. As it heads towards Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. Star trek II: Feeling that the future holds nothing close to what the past once did, Admiral James T. Kirk begins to believe that galloping around...
16) Sounder
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help (and sometimes hindrance) of various people along the road.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everything in its path. As it heads towards Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Three decades ago, young Socrates Fortlow murdered a man and woman in cold blood with his huge "rock-breaking hands" while in a drunken rage. 27 years of hard time in an Indiana prison followed. Now he is out, living in a cramped two-room apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, scavenging bottles and delivering groceries for a supermarket. The tough, brooding ex-con is determined to understand the violence and anarchy in the world around him-
...19) The terminator
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An indestructible cyborg-a Terminator-is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor, the woman whose unborn son will become humanity's only hope in a future war against machines.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
[Disc 1]: Star trek: the motion picture: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everthing in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. [Disc 2]: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Admiral James T. Kirk's Starfleet career enters...