Leonardo DiCaprio
21) This Boy's Life
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro ("GoodFellas," "City by the Sea"), Emmy-winner Ellen Barkin ("Sea of Love," "The Big Easy") and Academy Award-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Departed," "Blood Diamond") star in the film adaptation of author Tobias Wolff's award-winning autobiographical novel. Set in the 1950s, this moving drama tells the story of a young boy and his divorced mother who travel cross country in hopes of a better life. When his mother...
22) Titanic
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Description
See Titanic as you have never seen it before, digitally re-mastered and overseen by Academy Award-winning director James Cameron and producer Jon Landau. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet shine in the timeless love story born of tragedy that created an international phenomenon. This epic masterpiece is destined to sweep audiences anew into the journey of a lifetime. Limited quantities will include bonus DVD version of the film.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (166 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.
24) Body of lies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
CIA operative Roger Ferris is on a covert mission. He is working in Jordan and searching for terrorists who have been bombing civilian targets. Ferris uncovers information on the Islamist mastermind Al-Saleem. He devises a plan to infiltrate Al-Saleem's terrorist network with the help of his Langley boss, Ed Hoffman. Ferris enlists the help of the Chief of Jordanian Intelligence, Hani Salaam on this operation, but what he is not certain of is how...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 26 cm.
Description
Powerful but shy, the African mountain gorilla struggles for survival in the rainforests of Uganda's national parks. Follow wildlife photographer Richard Sobol on an arduous journey to these hidden habitats and take a hushed, close-up look at the gentle giants. Learn about the efforts being made to preserve these magnificent creatures.
26) Romeo + Juliet
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
Baz Luhrmann's dazzling and unconventional adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic love story is spellbinding. The setting has been moved from its Elizabethan origins to the futuristic backdrop of Verona Beach with these star-crossed lovers.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates and has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris as a means to rejuvenate their life. Initially skeptical, Frank...
28) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, 2007
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (151 min.) : blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
29) Inception
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption....
30) Titanic
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Formats
Description
The story of a passionate romance aboard the doomed ocean liner Titanic, framed by an account of a present-day salvager's efforts to investigate the ruins of the ship.
31) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
32) Django unchained
Formats
Description
Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Shultz.
33) Hubble
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (44 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Includes film from the May 2009 mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as images captured by the telescope, and a series of scientifically realistic space flights based on Hubble data.
34) J. Edgar
Formats
Description
"J. Edgar Hoover [was] head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life"--Container.
35) The departed
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (151 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the autobiography of a brilliant young master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail. Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. passed himself off as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor all before his 21st birthday.
37) Titanic
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012, c1997.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (194 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is a story of Jack and Rose, two people from different worlds who find each other and fall in love on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. When the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic, their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival!
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Formats
Description
Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.