Ron Howard
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English
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Unsung Heroes: The Story of America's Female Patriots is an inspirational saga of unrecognized courage and sacrifice that touches every community in the nation. Through rare photographs, archival materials, personal memorabilia and on-camera interviews, this 2-part documentary produced by Academy Award® Winner Ron Howard illustrates the enormous accomplishments and profound sacrifices of our female patriots that have previously been ignored...until...
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English
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"Before she was affectionately known to millions as "Mrs. C.," Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet who went on to appear in nearly every major TV series of the 1950s and 1960s--including Love, American Style, in which she donned an apron that would cinch her career. Soon after came the fateful phone call from producer Garry Marshall that made her an "overnight" success, and changed her life . . . In this warm and candid memoir, filled...
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English
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The next frontier in space exploration is Mars, the red planet--and human habitation of Mars isn't much farther off. Now the National Geographic Channel goes years fast-forward with "Mars," a six-part series documenting and dramatizing the next 25 years as humans land on and learn to live on Mars. This companion book to the series explores the science behind the mission and the challenges awaiting those brave individuals. Filled with vivid photographs...
6) Rush
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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The story of the rivalry between British race car driver James Hunt and his Austrian counterpart, Niki Lauda.
7) Apollo 13
Language
English
Description
True story of how three astronauts, stranded 205,000 miles above the earth, fight a battle to survive while Mission Control works against time to bring them home.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the powerful underground organization, the Illuminati, and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra to stop a terrorist attack on the Vatican.
10) Frost/Nixon
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Three years after leaving office, Richard Nixon confronts the questions of his time in office when the Watergate scandal ended his presidency in a history-making interview with British television personality David Frost.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Why is the Grinch such a grouch? No one seems to know, until little Cindy Lou Who takes matters into her own hands and turns both Whoville and the Grinch's world upside down, inside out... and funny side up in her search for the true meaning of Christmas.
12) Cinderella man
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept...
14) The Missing
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the Academy Award winning director and producer of A Beautiful Mind comes the suspense thriller THE MISSING. In the film, Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett), a young woman alone in an isolated and lawless wilderness, must re-unite with her long estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones) to track the mystical, psychopathic killer known as Chidin (Eric Schweig). Chidin, together with his brutal pack of army deserters, has kidnapped a collection of teenage...
16) Inferno
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population.--
18) The shootist
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A dying gunman returns to his friend for medical care in his last days, but becomes involved with a widow and her son, eventually dying with honor in a final gunfight.
19) The dilemma
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When a man suspects that his friend and business partner's wife is cheating on her spouse, he sets out to collect information and confront his friend about the affair.
20) A beautiful mind
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
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Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.