Donald Sutherland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms...
Series
Publisher
NGHT, Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Journey back 4,500 years to unlock the secrets of the world's most enduring archaeological mystery. This television program presents world-renowned archaeologists as they reveal a revolutionary new theory about who built Stonehenge and why. Thanks to a recent discovery of a lost city just two miles from the famous stone circle, our understanding of this era is now transformed.
4) Virus
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©1999
Description
When a crew of a crippled tugboat discover a deserted Russian military ship they find an alien electical life-form waiting inside.
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can successfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew.
9) The eagle
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and...
10) A time to kill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Description
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tension to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
11) Dan Candy's law
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"Young officer Dan Candy, on duty in the wild plains of the North, is faced with the ultimate battle when his partner is killed by a local native. Determined to exact justice, no matter what the cost, Candy is forced to take charge and hunt down his partner's killer in a territory where he is not welcome and under a badge that will not protect him."--Container.
12) The con artist
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
An ex-con finds his plan to go straight foiled by a loan shark who manipulates him into taking on one last heist aided by a beautiful and calculating art dealer.
13) Outbreak
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Dustin Hoffman plays Sam Daniels, a take-charge army virologist trying to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb the town and everyone in it.
14) Fallen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©1998
Description
Detective John Hobbes is searching for a criminal he's already met, already caught and already killed.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennessee. In 1818, slight, unexplained noises were heard. As the spirit grew, it singled out the father, John, and his daughter, Betsy. The family tried to search for the cause of the spirit in the hope of finding a way to defeat it. The spirit developed voices and began speaking to the family, but refused to say why it was there. Finally it pronounced a death sentence on John and within a year, he was...
16) Measure of a man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A bullied teen experiences a turning point summer and learns to stand up for himself.
17) Alone
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
During a global pandemic, a man must battle swarming hordes of the undead to rescue a female neighbor.
18) Disclosure
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
When an executive in a large company resists the advances of his new boss who is also a former love, she charges him with sexual harassment. Suddenly his marriage and his career are at risk, and his struggle to extricate himself leads to the exposure of an executive conspiracy.
19) Reign over me
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Alan Johnson runs into his old college roommate, Charlie Fineman, on the streets of New York City. He is suprised to find that Charlie does not remember him at all. Alan later learns that Charlie is suffering with grief over the loss of his family on 9/11. Flooded with grief, Charlie quits his job and isolates himself from everyone around him. Alan attempts to help Charlie get over his grief by rekindling their friendship while Charlie. As Alan spends...
20) The hunger games
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.