Matt Damon
Author
Language
English
Description
Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system -- the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across our country.
2) Suburbicon
Language
English
Formats
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
3) Boston
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From its humble origins 120 years ago to present day, BOSTON immerses the viewer into the wondrous kaleidoscope of the oldest annually contested marathon in the world. Evolving from a workingman's challenge to welcoming foreign athletes and eventually women, the iconic race paved the way for the modern marathon and mass participatory sports.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As the debate over the state of America's public school system rages on, one thing everyone agrees on is the need for great teachers. Yet, while research proves that teachers are the most important school-based factor in a child's future success, America's teachers are so woefully underpaid that almost two thirds must divide their time between a second job in order to make a living. Chronicling the stories of five teachers in different areas of the...
5) Gerry
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Two friends that call each other GERRY decide to hide in the wilderness in order to see something. However, they do not find what they're looking for. They decide to return to the car but they get lost in the desert, without water, supplies or a compass. Now they have to walk, trying to find the road to survive. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
6) Downsizing
Language
English
Formats
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul Safrane and his wife Audrey decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.
7) Rounders
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Mike has given up gambling, but when his friend gets into debt to a ruthless card shark, he is drawn back to the tables in a game he cannot afford to lose.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (127 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From director Robert Redford comes a film that celebrates the power and potential of the human spirit. Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron star in this highly-acclaimed tale of a local hero with a promising future whose hopes are shattered on the battlefields of war. The disillusioned young man turns his back on the world – until a fateful visit from a mysterious stranger turns his life around. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, THE...
9) Howard Zinn
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 78 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
We mourn the loss of author, activist, historian and beloved folk hero Howard Zinn, who has been an integral part of the First Run legacy for many years. Howard lent his support to many first run films (many of which he appeared in), the most recent being the Oscar-nominated The most dangerous man in america: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon papers. Howard hid copies of the Pentagon papers for Ellsberg, and he later served as an expert witness for...
10) The Bourne files
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
3-disc collection; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 271 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Jason Bourne is pulled from the sea suffering from amnesia with a pair of bullet wounds in his back. His only clue to his own identity is a bank account number etched on a capsule implanted in his body. He finds the Zurich bank where money, a gun, and several passports with different names await. He quickly realizes that he can trust no one and offers a German gypsy named Maria ten thousand dollars for a ride to Paris. With Maria's reluctant...
12) Stillwater
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American oil-rig worker goes to Marseilles, France, to save his daughter, who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit.
13) The Great Wall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A European mercenary searching for black powder finds himself in China defending the Great Wall against alien monsters.
14) Interstellar
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
15) The zero theorem
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story about a computer hacker in a dystopian sci-fi world. Living under constant surveillance by 'Management,' he strives to solve The Zero Theorem, a mathematical formula that may hold the key to the meaning of life.
16) The Martian
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
17) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
18) Jason Bourne
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/Spanish/French version]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jason Bourne, the CIA's most dangerous former operative, now remembers who he truly is and comes out of hiding to uncover more hidden truths about his past.
19) The last duel
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...