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1) 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.
2) Rocketman
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years.
3) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
4) 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.
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Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
6) The aviator
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the life of Howard Hughes as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving the design of oil-drilling bits, who comes to Hollywood with an interest in getting into the picture business. It doesn't take long for Hughes to jump from producer to director of his first major film project, a World War I air epic. The film was a massive hit, and the eccentric inventor became a mogul in Hollywood, making Jean Harlow a star...
7) Truman
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
8) Patton
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
9) Spartacus
Formats
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
11) Dream horse
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Experience the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely racehorse bred by small-town bartender Jan Vokes. With little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to raise Dream and compete against the racing elites, becoming a beacon of hope in their struggling community as he rises through the ranks.
12) Bombshell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
A group of women decides to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the summer afternoon in 1989 when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed the future First Lady, Michelle Robinson, on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.
14) Molly's game
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
16) Unbroken
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
17) A hidden life
Description
Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
18) Jackie
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of A...
19) Morelos
Publisher
Mundo en DVD
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
La película retrata los últimos años de la vida de José María Morelos y Pavón (1812-1815), caudillo de la indepndencia mexicana quien tras burlar el cerco del Gral. Calleja en Cuatla, reorganiza sus tropas y toma la ciudad de Oaxaca; sin embargo, teniendo más de la mitad del territoria mexicano en sus manos, Morelos se empeña en tomar el puerto de Acapulco mientras las tropas realistas se reorganizan y recuperan terreno. Muestra la relación...
20) I still believe
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Singer Jeremy Camp faces personal and professional challenges as he rises to become a star of Christian music.
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