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2) The mule
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel's...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One of Essence's Best Books of the Year
NAACP Image Awards Winner for Outstanding Literary Work
With a foreword by Speaker Nancy Pelosi
"There was no greater friend to the poor, to the lost, to the left out, and to the left behind. If you want to understand this great man, read his historic, important book and learn the lessons and values from his 'moral voice crying in the wilderness' on behalf of our American democracy." -Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)
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Publisher
CBS DVD/Paramount
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is a fast-paced drama about a team of forensic investigators trained to solve crimes by examining the evidence. They are on the case 24/7, scouring the scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that will solve the mystery.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives and to prove to America that courage...
9) The matrix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Computer hacker realizes the world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us.
12) Man of steel
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
13) 21
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Looking for a way to pay his college tuition at M.I.T., a student joins a statistics professor and other students in learning the tricks to breaking the casinos in Las Vegas.
Publisher
Warner Home video
Pub. Date
[©2010]
Language
English
Description
Contains four films about a computer hacker who realizes the world is an elaborate deception created by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence. In Matrix, in an anti-utopian future, the "real" world is a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct and is now fighting for the future of the human race. In Matrix reloaded, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus continue...
15) Last flag flying
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
16) Event horizon
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Event Horizon is the high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft that has mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistnet signal from the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team to wing its way throught the galaxy on a bold rescue mission.
17) Just cause
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, 1995.
Language
English
Description
A law professor is drawn into appealing the case of a deathrow inmate who may have been railroaded into a conviction by vindictive cops.
18) Decoration day
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 7
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When an estranged friend refuses the Congressional Medal of Honor for service during World War II, a retired judge tries to find out why and in the process solves a mystery, heals his friendship, saves a marriage, and falls in love.
19) Rudderless
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Sam, a former high-profile ad executive, is devastated by the sudden death of his musician son. When Sam discovers a box filled with his son's demo tapes, the grieving father's downward spiral comes to a standstill as he explores this unexpected gift. After mustering the will to perform one of the songs at a local bar, Sam meets and forms a friendship with Quentin a young musician. The unlikely duo forms a rock band that becomes a local sensation....
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
John Wick: When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.John Wick. Chapter 2: In this next chapter following the 2014 hit, legendary hit man John Wick is forced back out of...