Patrick Wilson
Author
Description
Published to coincide with the major 2 part BBC1 series (Autumn 2000) of the same name, War Behind the Wire focuses on the capture, interrogation, the comradeship of camp life, escape planning and forgery techniques, tunnelling, the thrill of life on the run, re-capture and punishment, the joy of liberation. All these experiences and more are vividly described by former POWs of the Second World War and their German camp guards, in War Behind the Wire....
2) The founder
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Conjuring tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
6) Jack Strong
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on true events during the Cold War, Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski risks his and his family's lives as an informant for the CIA when he learns that Poland could become the site of a nuclear counterattack against the Soviet Union.
Publisher
New Line
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her 'safely' behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest's holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target, the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When demonologists Ed and Lorraine place Annabelle, a possessed doll, in a sacred glass case and four years later it accidentally gets unlocked, Annabelle unleashes evil spirits and attacks the demonologists' daughter and her friends.
10) Young adult
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mavis Gary is a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart. When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either.
11) The A-Team
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 119 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 digital copy (digital ; 4 3/4 in).
Description
Convicted by a military court for a crime they didn't commit, a daring team of former Special Forces soldiers must utilize their unique talents to break out of prison and tackle their toughest mission yet. It's going to take guts, split-second timing and an arsenal of explosive weapons, this is a job for The A-Team!
12) Fargo: Season 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 533 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The second chapter is set in 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Luverne, Minnesota, where young State Police Officer Lou Solverson, recently back from Vietnam, will tackle an all-new 'true crime' case.
13) Stretch
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The director of Smokin' Aces brings you into the world of Kevin Stretch, a Hollywood limo driver with a dark past. When Stretch is in need of quick cash to pay back his debts to a notorious gangster, he takes a job with a billionaire client in hopes of a big payday. His client's eccentricities soon escalate into a wild night of adventure, sex, and danger which begins to make the fate of returning to the mob empty-handed seem reasonable.
15) Big stone gap
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1978 and the ever-ordinary Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) leads a simple life. She lives with her mother, runs the pharmacy, directs The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama, and hopes that her best friend will take their platonic friendship in a romantic direction. Ave Maria waits, and before she knows it, she turns 40. Now the old maid of Big Stone Gap, Ave Maria decides that happiness is for other people--that is, until a long-buried...
16) Aquaman
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
An action-packed adventure that reveals the origin story of half-human, half- Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime, one that will not only force him to face who he really is but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be a king.
17) The commuter
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
18) The conjuring: 2
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (141 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Deep in the passageways below the Paris Opera lives a lonely, talented, horribly disfigured man who revels in terrorizing the theater's employees as THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. But when the masked Phantom sees young Christine Daaé, his heart melts. He secretly trains her, transforms her into a star ... and loves her. But when she cannot return his affection, as her heart already belongs to another, all the pain that the Phantom has held within is revealed...
20) Fargo: Year two
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 blu-ray (532 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Police investigate a hit-and-run murder and a triple homicide in 1979 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Luverne, Minnesota.