Forest Whitaker
Author
Description
Hip clothing designer, Amer Atrash, is perpetually on the brink of success. Now, with time running out, he is undergoing a crisis in his business and in his marriage. Soul searching, he attributes his misfortune to bad karma from a wrongdoing committed fifteen years ago and sets out to right this wrong, experiencing a spiritual awakening in the process.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 book ([32] p. : col. ill.)
Description
Andrea Pinkney presents a charming chronicle featuring the exploits of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, a master pianist in the 20th century. Overcoming America's racial divide and rising to fame in the 1940s, Ellington went on to compose thousands of pieces before his death in 1974.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.
7) Serving life
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. It documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for their dying fellow inmates. In doing so, they embark on a journey that may end in personal rehabilitation.
8) Arrival
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After leaving his LAPD narcotics post, Sheriff Ray Owens moved and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. That peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez, one of the most notorious drug kingpins, makes an escape from the FBI. Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border, straight through Sommerton Junction.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer, and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
12) A dark truth
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A former CIA operative turned political talk show host is hired by a corporate whistle blower to expose her company's cover-up of a massacre in a South American village. The ever-increasing depletion of earth's natural resource of water serves as the backdrop for this tense environmental thriller.
13) Black Panther
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
King T'Challa returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne from divisions within his own country. When two enemies conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must join forces with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Wakandan Special Forces, to prevent Wakanda from being drawn into a world war.
14) Taken 3
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose long awaited reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered, must use his 'particular set of skills' to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now: his daughter.
15) Respect
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The Color of Money" is a decades-later sequel to "The Hustler." 25 years on, Fast Eddie is now a nattily dressed, silver-haired liquor salesman working the Midwest in his white Cadillac. His neat mustache and smiling deviltry are also employed in his other profession--stake horse to up and coming pool hustlers. One night he sees a kid playing who is so good that Eddie's laboriously buried memories are stirred. Vincent and his girlfriend Carmen have...
18) Vantage point
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
U.S. president Ashton is in Salamanca, Spain to announce plans for a major global summit on terrorism. As he stands behind the podium in front of a loudly cheering crowd, he is shot twice. This is followed minutes later by a small explosion and then a massive blast. Secret Service agents Barnes, Taylor, and Holden immediately jump into action, trying to find the terrorists responsible amid all the chaos. First, the events are seen through the eyes...
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Appears on list
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
20) Rogue one
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.