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62) Reds
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006, c1981
Description
The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
On a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990, a young single mother named Joanne Rowling conceived the idea of a children's book about a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Five years later, that idea became the basis for the most successful book franchise in the history of publishing. Here is the rags-to-riches story of J.K. Rowling, who overcame numerous hardships to rise seemingly overnight from a destitute welfare mother in England to one of the...
64) Invincible
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Vince Papale is a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher in Philadelphia who, at the age of 30, was out of work, abandoned by his wife, and biding time as a part-time bartender when he decides to answer an open call for tryouts on the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team in 1976. Going with his gut instinct, new coach Dick Vermeil rewards Papale's diligent efforts with a place on the team.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
It tells the story of genius auto inventor Ferruccio Lamborghini. All his life, Ferruccio has dreamed of beating his longtime rival Enzo Ferrari and the upcoming Geneva Grand Prix could be his chance to blow past Ferrari for good. But can Ferruccio get his untested vehicle prepped for victory with the competition just a month away? The race is on!
66) Midnight express
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
©1999
Description
Details the true story of Billy Hayes, an American college student, who is imprisoned in a Turkish prison for a drug offense--and his ultimate escape ... to take the "midnight express"--Box.
67) Shirley
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2020
Description
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
68) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2023.
Formats
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
69) Walk the line
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
70) Elvis
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Formats
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
The moving romantic story of two lovers who create an intimate private world amidst the pomp and politics of the court of St. James. This epic miniseries shows us a Victoria that we have never seen before--not the staid and stately old matron cloaked in black--but a young, passonate, sensual Victoria who takes command of the throne and falls head over heels in love with the dashing German prince who will father her six children.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. Director Morgan Neville offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Between April 1975 and January 1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people in Cambodia. A quarter of the population was wiped out in one of the most brutal and virulent genocides of the twentieth century. When Phnom Penh fell in 1975-- two weeks before Saigon-- the city was evacuated. Money was abolished and three million people were sent to the countryside to work as slave labor on collective farms. As...
76) Walk the line
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The love story of country stars Johnny Cash and June Carter during the early years of Cash's career with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. With his driving freight-train chords, steel-eyed intensity and a voice as dark as the night, Cash revolutionized music and forges his legacy as a genuine Amercian icon.
77) De-Lovely
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter. The film imagines Porter looking back on his life as a stage show, with past memories taking shape as numbers in an elaborate and elegant musical accompanied by his songs. His personal history is illustrated by these performances, especially the complicated relationship with his wife, wealthy socialite Linda Lee Porter, who is shown as being the main inspiration for his work despite his extramarital...
78) The Hill
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
The inspiring true story of Rickey Hill, the small-town son of a traveling Pastor. A sandlot baseball phenom, Rickey defiantly overcomes his physical disabilities and father's persistent worry for his health, to fulfill his dream of playing professional baseball and ultimately transforming his connection with his father.
79) Creation
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Gives viewers a unique inside look at Charles Darwin, his family, and his love for his deeply religious wife, as he is torn between faith and science. Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book, On the Origin of Species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
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