Angus MacFadyen
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on author David Grann's nonfiction bestseller, The Lost City of Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett...
3) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery as a young boy and sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A historical thriller set during the Revolutionary War. Abe Woodhull is a farmer living in British-occupied Long Island who bands together with his friends to from the Culper Ring, an unlikely team of secret agents who not only went on to help George Washington turn the tide of the war, but also gave birth to modern spycraft.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
TURN: Washington's Spies takes viewers into the stirring and treacherous world of the Revolutionary War and America's first spy ring. In this season, the Patriot cause has suffered the crushing loss of their capital city of Philadelphia to the British. Washington's army faces desertion and death, and the embattled General faces conspirators from within his own ranks, as well as personal demons he keeps hidden from the men he leads. Washington's closest...
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A young Greek prince sees his father murdered by his uncle and flees, returning twenty years later to reclaim the throne. To save his own life, Prince Jason pledges to deliver the coveted Golden Fleece to his Uncle Pelias. Embarking with a crew of superheros, he undertakes a perilous voyage to find his destiny.
7) Saw III
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jigsaw is missing, and with his new apprentice, Amanda, the puppet master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture. While the city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Denlon and Jeff are unaware that they are about to beome the latest pawns on Jigsaw's vicious chessboard.
8) Shadowheart
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, he saw his preacher father murdered. As a soldier, he witnessed the horrors of the Civil War. Now bounty hunter James Conners has returned to the town of Legend, New Mexico to capture the psychotic land baron who destroyed his childhood and marry the beautiful girl he left behind. But when Conners is ambushed and left for dead, he discovers a Native American world where justice has no name and vengeance rides in the shadows."--Container....
9) Braveheart
Series
Language
English
Description
William Wallace, a bold Scotsman, uses the steel of his sword and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation from the English occupation of Scotland.
10) Assassins run
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Maya, a ballerina, becomes the target of the Russian mafia after her husband, a successful American business man, is killed. Refusing to disclose the location of her husband's financial documents, Maya is framed by corrupt cops and thrown into prison. As she escapes from prison with her world turned upside down by the news of her daughter's kidnapping, Maya takes per ballerina skills and uses them to get her back.
11) .45
Publisher
Capitol Films
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Kat, a beautiful bad girl with a passion for guns and danger, is stuck in a life of crime that is controlled by her ruthless, drug-dealing boyfriend, Big Al. She wants more than what he has to offer, and she must take him down to start a better life.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. But when the news of Detective Kerry's murder becomes public, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community. There, they assist veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has only ninety minutes...
13) Blackbeard
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the 18th century, Blackbeard stood out among the lawless rogues as the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. He killed for the reputation which is now legend. The true story of pirate Edward Teach, the man who terrorized the seas.
14) Equilibrium
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement officer who tracks down and punishes "sense offenders"...
15) Titus
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the Shakespeare play by the same name, Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again.
18) Redline
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The idle rich need something unconventional to spend their hard-earned money on. So, they bet on and/or sponsor illegal car races. Unfortunately, one of the drivers, Jason, gets killed trying to impress his Uncle Michael. Michael's philosophies do little to camouflage the fact that he's a psychopathic Mafia don. Carlo is Jason's older brother and a returning Iraqi War hero who goes to an old gun-running buddy and stocks up on military weaponry. Along...
Language
English
Description
Playwright Siddalee Walker is on the verge of opening a new play. She gives a magazine interview in which she discusses her unhappy childhood. Her mother is furious and cuts her off. Her mother's friends, who as children formed a secret society, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, kidnap Siddalee from her New York apartment and take her home to Louisiana. The Sisterhood hopes to explain her mother's history and to patch up the rift between mother and daughter.
20) Saw III
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jigsaw is missing, and with his new apprentice, Amanda, the puppet master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture. While the city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Denlon and Jeff are unaware that they are about to beome the latest pawns on Jigsaw's vicious chessboard.