Phillip Noyce
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Amy Carr (Academy Award®-nominee Naomi Watts) desperately races against time to save her son Noah (Colton Gobbo) from an active shooter at his small-town high school.
2) Salt
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues.
3) Dead Calm
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Take an ocean voyage of full-masted fright with DEAD CALM, “a spare, smart, seductive piece of moviemaking with enough tension to keep us all hyperventilating for hours” (Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times). Thriller specialist Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, The Saint) directs three splendid actors – Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Nicole Kidman (Eyes Wide Shut) and Billy Zane (Titanic) – in riveting performances. Joe and Rae Ingram (Neill and Kidman)...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
7) Catch a fire
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 37 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
8) Salt
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Description
His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife and daughter. Meeting them outside Buckingham Palace, Ryan is caught in the middle of a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family. But Ryan's courageous act marks him as a target in the sights of the terrorists.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003], c1994
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
CIA Agent Jack Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence when his mentor, Admiral James Greer becomes gravely ill. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands.
11) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, Llc
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 6 hrs., 29 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil war. Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (392 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The hunt for Red October: A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius...