Kevin Bacon
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's heartland, he will find himself on an unexpectedly emotional journey...
3) Tremors
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Two country handymen and a seismology student discover a desolate town infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live underground.
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Hollow man : After successfully experimenting on animals in a top-secret research project on invisibility, a defense department scientist decides to experiment on himself. Things go terribly wrong when it is discovered that the procedure cannot be reversed.
Hollow man 2 : A Seattle detective and a biologist find themselves the targets of murder from an invisible assassin gone rogue. Other targets for assassination are the government forces who caused...
8) Footloose
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ren MacCormack moves from Boston to the small town of Bomont, where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out. Bomont's councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by invoking ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizes the town, and falls in love with...
9) Patriots Day
Language
English
Description
The story of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath.
10) Picture perfect
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As adorable as she is ambitious, Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and equally determined to snare Sam, the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women.
11) Apollo 13
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
12) Death sentence
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Nick seems to have the perfect life, until one night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Now consumed by grief, he realizes that there is nothing he wouldn't do to protect his family.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campus's only other frat house is full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men that no one except Dean Wormer can stand. The dean enlists the help of that fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade.
14) Wild things
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A thriller about two high school students, the guidance counselor they accuse of rape, and the detective who knows there's more to the story.
15) Flatliners
Language
English
Description
An ambitious, charismatic medical student persuades two classmates to take part in an experiment to determine if there is life after death. Their horror begins when they realize that although they've come back alive, they haven't come back alone.
17) Frost/Nixon
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions...
18) Forces of nature
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Experience the awesome spectacle of earthquakes, volcanoes, and severe storms as National Geographic cameras travel the world, venturing to the very brink of erupting volcanoes, into the paths of deadly pyroclastic flows, along massive fault lines, and aboard vehicles barreling toward massive tornados, all in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. Stunning visual footage and a powerful soundtrack bring natural disasters to life like never before."
19) JFK
Language
English
Description
The story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession.
20) Hollow man
Language
English
Description
After years of experimentation, Dr. Sebastian Caine, a brilliant but arrogant scientist working for the Defense Department, has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Detemined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine instructs his team to move on to phase III: human experimentation. Dr. Caine uses himself as the first subject.