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Language
English
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Description
Twelve-chapter documentary series, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone. Do Americans really know and understand the country's shared and complicated history? How are the small details and forgotten players that influenced some of the biggest events from America's past recalled? Will children actually get the whole story from reading history books? And how will it affect the future of the country?
Author
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Contains "Wall Street," in which an ambitious young broker is lured into the illegal and lucrative world of corporate espionage; and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," in which a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former corporate raider Gordon Gekko.
6) Alexander
Language
English
Description
The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
Academy award winning director Oliver Stone presents a breathtaking new cut of his sweeping epic film, Alexander, the true story of the world's greatest warrior. Using new footage and dramatically reshaping dozens of scenes, he brings to life the overpowering forces...
8) JFK
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession.
9) The Doors
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Drama focusing on the life of sixties rock star Jim Morrison.
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Series
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This series takes ten roles by a single actor, each studied in a dedicated chapter, and identifies the key elements that made the performances exceptional - carefully examining the actor's craft for both a professional audience and movie fans alike. Tom Cruise first cast by Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders (1983), gained international notoriety in the mid-1980s thanks to Tony Scott's Top Gun (1986). One of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood,...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when the all-American high school student discovers he's undocumented? Rafa's parents didn't want him to grow up feeling different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." Rafa had no idea of his immigration status until he tried to get his driver's license during his junior year of high school. Suddenly, his perfectly curated and slightly racist (race-ish, if you will) American life came undone. While his parents...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafs. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
15) Stone Cold
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected by those who've crossed his path. Keeping a vigilant watch over our leaders in Washington, D.C., the Camel Club has won over some allies, but it has also earned formidable enemies - including those in power who will do anything to prevent Stone and his friends from uncovering the hidden, secret work of the government.
16) Divine justice
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in Baldacci's most astonishing thriller yet when the assassinations Stone carries out prompt the highest levels of the government to unleash a massive manhunt.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bomb detonates in the White House immediately after the British Prime Minister departs from the State Dinner. Oliver Stone, who witnesses the event, believes the Prime Minister and the President were the targets of a terrorist plot. MI-5 agent Mary Chapman is assigned to assist the Stone and his Camel Club with the investigation, which reveals that the bombing may have actually been botched and is part of a darker, deadlier conspiracy.
18) Salvador
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Richard Boyle, a journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Language
English
Description
Director Oliver Stone visits seven presidents in five countries in South America to gain some understanding about the political and social ideas and the revolutions, and to clear up how people view them. Includes interviews with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Argentinean president Cristina Kirchner, Cuban president Raul Castro, and more.
20) The Doors
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Biographical film about one of the most exciting and controversial figures of the '60s, Jim Morrison. With his rock and roll band, The Doors, he influenced the rock music scene as no other group had.