Burt Lancaster
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Series
Criterion collection ; 235
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Recounting the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian version with optional subtitles, the English-language version and special features.
Series
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball field. He believes that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, Shoeless Joe Jackson from the infamous 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox will return to play baseball. By being willing to take a chance, Ray gets a second time up at bat in life.
10) Brute force
Series
Criterion collection ; 383
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Joe Collins, along with his fellow inmates, live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
11) Local hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
12) Field of dreams
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a mysterious voice, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella constructs a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield.
13) Atlantic City
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A smalltime, aging Mafia hood falls in love with a clam bar waitress, and they share the spoils of the big score against the backdrop of a changing Atlantic City.
14) Airport
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The manager of an international airport must juggle personal crises with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard-torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner.
15) Moses
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Condensed from the six hour mini-series made for British television. The story of the Hebrew, Moses, who was raised by the Pharaoh's daughter. He was chosen by God to lead the Jews from the Pharaoh's tyrannical rule.
16) Rope of sand
Series
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Mike Davis is back in Africa to claim the diamonds he has supposedly stolen two years ago. Standing in his way are the diamond syndicate head and the vicious commandment who has left Mike for dead years before.
17) Local hero
Series
Criterion collection ; 994
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away." --
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
20) The train
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
