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Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb. The film takes place in the mid 1990s, when Webb uncovered the CIA's past role in importing huge amounts of cocaine into the U.S. It was sold in ghettos across the country to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army. Despite enormous pressure not to, Webb chose to pursue the story and went public with his evidence. As a result he experienced a vicious smear campaign fueled by the CIA.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
4) Irresistible
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Democratic strategist assists a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.
Publisher
Shemaroo Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This biographical epic on Sardar Patel concentrates largely on the last five years of Sardar's life from 1945 to 1950 when strode on the national scene, a key figure in wresting India's Independence and integrating the nation. The film deals with all the myriad and debilitating problems that India faced in its pre and immediate post Independence period, which turned out to be Sardar Patel's finest hour when problem after monumental problem was solved...
6) Miss Sloane
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the world of political power brokers, Sloane takes on the most powerful opponents of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An extraordinary story of love, compassion, and danger. This political thriller is about one family who had the courage to fight for justice in a country ruled by fear. Based on the novel by Lawrence Thornton.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story covers the highlights of Caesar's life including his exile during the rule of the cruel dictator Sulla, his patronage under the capable General Pompey, his brutal but victorious campaigns against Vercingetorix and the Gauls, and his love affair with the beautiful and scheming Egytian queen Cleopatra. Caesar's great ambition ultimately lead to his own murder by members of the Roman Senate who fear his ascendency, but ironically bring about...
9) The debt
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stephan about their former colleague David. All three have been venerated for decades by Israel because of the secret mission that they embarked on for their country back in 1965-1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the feared Surgeon of Birkenau, in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission...
10) Miss Sloane
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the world of political power brokers, Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
11) Wag the dog
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, "Mr. Fix-it" decides they need a war to distract the public's attention and he calls on Hollywood's top producer to create it.
12) This is our land
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A single working-class mother in a French town agrees to run for mayor on behalf of a far-right political party.
13) Omar
Publisher
Adopt Films
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.
14) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
15) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds
16) Beyond Rangoon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young San Francisco widow is swept into a political uprising in Burma after her sister reluctantly drags her on a tour of southeast Asia.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When a tawdry sex scandal links a high-ranking British politician to a Russian KGB agent, ambitious newsman Nick Mullen swiftly gets the story on Page One. But when his scoop-of-the-decade begins to unravel the cover-up-of-the-century ... [Mullen finds himself] ensnared in a web of deadly intrigue"--Container.
18) 1984
Series
Criterion collection volume 984
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of forbidden love and eventual betrayal set in the government controlled world of the "future"--1984.
19) Twin warriors
Series
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two boys grow up together, then see their lives take off in opposite directions. Junbao joins a group of political rebels, while his old friend Tienbao becomes the follower of a ruthless military regime.
20) In the loop
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one can sleep with the right intern, and...
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