Laurence Fishburne
1) The matrix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an anti-utopian future, the real world as we know it is nothing more than 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.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
4) Predators
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Royce is a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors mysteriously brought together on a jungle planet. But when these cold-blooded human 'predators' find themselves in all-out war against a new breed of alien Predators, it's the ultimate showdown between hunter and prey.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2000, c1993
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This heart-warming film is based on the true story of a young boy who is a chess prodigy and his father, who attempts to walk the fine line between encouraging his son's talent, and preserving the love they have for each other.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1044 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, with its constant influx of visitors, criminals are provided with ripe targets of all varieties. Luckily for the victims, the Las Vegas Police Department's night shift Crime Scene Investigations is on the case. In this season, Laurence Fishburne joins the CSI team in the lead role of Dr. Raymond Langston.
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 46 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow Michael Jordan's last basketball season as he leads the Chicago Bulls to their sixth NBA championship. Provides a rare glimpse of Michael Jordan on and off the court.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 7
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Gold Crown collector's ed., full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...
11) Ride along
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fast-talking security guard Ben joins his soon-to-be brother-in-law James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James's sister.
12) Rudderless
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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....
13) Matrix reloaded
Language
English
Formats
Description
Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army. In their quest to save the human race from extinction, they gain greater insight into the construction of The Matrix and Neo's pivotal role in the fate of mankind.
Publisher
NBC Universal Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 561 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the early relationship between FBI criminal profiler Will Graham and psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr....
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. suffers 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 are not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, through the brutal demands of their training, to the perils of flying over nations at war, the men they call "The Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives--to...
16) Contagion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
17) Matrix reloaded
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army. In their quest to save the human race from extinction, they gain greater insight into the construction of The Matrix and Neo's pivotal role in the fate of mankind.
18) Just cause
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
A Harvard law school professor reopens a murder investigation on behalf of a death row inmate who claims he was forced by a sinister lawman to confess to a crime he didn't commit. On the surface, it seems to be a straight-ahead case of the prisoner's guilt or innocence. But nothing really lies on the surface of this mystery, set in the Florida swamplands.
Publisher
Seville/Filmed Ent/Pdx
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 560 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hannibal is on the run in Europe, accompanied by his psychiatrist, Bedelia Du Maurier, sporting a new identity, but servicing the same insatiable appetite. As the lives of Will and Jack converge toward Hannibal again, each with their own motivations to catch him once and for all, their deadly dance turns in startling and unexpected ways.
20) Man of steel
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
©2013.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.