Steven Spielberg
3) Lincoln
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
4) The Post
Formats
Description
Determined to uphold the nation's civil liberties, Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, and hard-nosed editor Ben Bradlee join forces to expose a decades-long cover-up. However, the two must risk their careers and their freedom to bring truth to light.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Traces the experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who fell victim to Hitler's brutal war against the Jews during the final days of World War II, and later returned from the United States to their hometowns and ghettos and the concentration camps in which they were imprisoned.
7) Jaws
Formats
Description
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Indiana Jones battles fierce Nazis in hopes of stopping them from using the power of the lost Ark of the Covenant. Bonus features include featurettes, galleries, web link, storyboard sequence, introduction, and much more.
10) Super 8
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local deputy tries to uncover the truth, something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
11) West Side story
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tony and Maria fall in love despite being from different backgrounds.
Formats
Description
Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that leaves most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, survivors band together to begin the difficult task of fighting back against the aggressive aliens. Outside of Boston, history professor Tom Mason helps lead a small army named 2nd Massachusetts in the battle of their lives to preserve their families and what's left of mankind.
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 blu-rays (349 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A scheme to open a theme park featuring real dinosaurs cloned from DNA turns into a catastrophe; two teams head for Site B, an island where the dinosaurs have been left alone for four years; renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant is tricked into flying over InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric dinosaurs and must guide several people through the island.
16) The terminal
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to a villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck in at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion. Gupta the hilarious Indian custodian; Enrique who transports food; Torres...
17) West Side story
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hours, 36 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner, this musical tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.
18) Duel
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is just a regular family man on a business trip. Unfortunately, things go from bad to worse when a huge gasoline truck in front of him forces him to drive slower than he wants. As the drive continues, Mann realizes that he's not dealing with just another road hog. Though he can never see the trucker's face, the driver proves to be psychopathic, starting to run Mann off the road and trick or force him into a number of deadly...
19) The Pacific
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 530 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Publisher
Lucasfilm
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Indy is once again fighting the Nazis, but this time with his father. They are racing to be the first to find the Holy Grail, and harness its holy power of immortality. Bonus features include storyboard sequence, featurettes, and more.