William Blinn
2) Purple rain
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prince stars as "The Kid, " a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1970s Bay City, two undercover police detective, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and Dave Starsky, always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey. They rely on their street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod. The two are on their first big case which involves a former college campus drug dealer who has gone on to become a white collar criminal dealing in a new...
4) Purple rain
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer, and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.
5) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Since its debut season the popular series Starsky & Hutch was a breakout hit. By Season Two, their way-cool Gran Torino, jive-talking informant Huggy Bear, gruff boss Captain Dobey and even Starsky's cable-knit belted sweater were on their way to becoming icons of 70s cool. The show's outrageous style and tongue-in-cheel humor, played alongside Season Three's more serious storylines, which made it one of the most popular and innovative cop shows...
8) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of "good old boy" cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who with the help of their eye-catching cousin Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner Boss Hogg.
11) Roots
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[℗2011]
Language
English
Description
Roots, adapted from the Alex Haley novel that traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction in Africa to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
Roots, the next generations follows the Haley family from the post-Civil War era until the more contemporary but still turbulent time of the 1960s...