Will Geer
Publisher
The Film Detective, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Salt of the Earth centers on a long, difficult, workers' strike against a mining company in new Mexico. Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) fights for equity of wages as well as health and safety issues, but at home he mistreats his wife, Esperanza. When the men are forced to end their picketing, Esperanza joins the other women who demand to play a role in the strike, against their husband's wishes. Written, directed, and produced by members of the original...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression and a fledgling writer whose observations are filled with the growing-up lessons and love he receives from his family.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Through tests, tears, and triumphs as a fire drives the Waltons from their home, John-Boy becomes a scriptwriter, Mary Ellen applies to nursing school, and Jim-Bob discovers a fact about his birth, all while Hitler and Mussolini threaten the world.
10) Scarecrow
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In a 17th century Massachusetts town, a scarecrow is magically transformed into a man and charged with the mission of destroying true love.
12) Broken arrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
15) Winchester '73
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An engaging frontiersman attempts to track down his father's murderer and the whereabouts of his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester '73, as it passes among a rogue's gallery of owners including a crazed highwayman, an immoral gunrunner, a young Indian chief, and Stewart's own murderous brother.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Local hero: Comedy about an American oil company representative and the sleepy seaside Scottish village he must buy.
Seven days in May: It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ...At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant...
18) Seconds
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape his dreary, dead-end life, an aging banker succumbs to a mysterious organization's offer of a new identity and a fresh start. Surgically transformed into a handsome, young man, he begins a jet-set existence among a shadowy community of similar "reborns." But his heady exhilaration spirals into a heart-stopping terror as he discovers that his newly purchased life carries a terrifying price.
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.