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Language
English
Description
A classic adventure of a young orphan sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle and his crippled son. Led by a strong will and a stubborn temperament, Mary Lennox discovers the existence of a secret garden, the history of which slowly reveals the mystery of her uncle and his son's embittered lives. Eventually, the beloved garden becomes the only hope for their happiness and restoration from the haunting grip of the...
Language
English
Description
"The Molly Maguires was a secret society of militant coal miners who battled their exploitation by mine owners with violence, intimidation... and sometimes murder. Based on actual events, this gripping story is a sympathetic and accurate account of the Irish-American miners' struggle. Richard Harris (Galdiator, Camelot) plays a detective on undercover assignment for the owners, fighting to win the workers, trust, and finally, fighting his own conscience....
7) D.O.A
Series
Publisher
American Pop Classics
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When a California businessman shows up at the San Francisco police station to report a murder, the police captain asks him who was murdered. His reply: 'I was.' So begins the tale of a man who is poisoned at a dark jazz club and, with only hours left to live, is determined to find out who poisoned him and why.
10) PT 109
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Retelling of John F. Kennedy's wartime exploits as skipper of a battle-scarred PT boat. The assignment: harass the enemy and buy time for a U.S. Navy still on the drawing boards. In August 1943, PT 109 was sliced in half by a japanese destroyer. Kennedy led his surviving crew through a sea aflame from gasoline, towing one badly burned sailor miles to the nearest island.
11) Split second
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Escaped killers led flee a Nevada prison to the ghost town of Yucca Flats, even though a nuclear blast is set to detonate there at 6 a.m. the following morning. Drawing a hapless group of passersby into their circle of desperation, the killers hold court over a night of suspense and terror.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jim Bronson is traveling where the road and the day take him, trying to make sense of things after the suicide of his close friend. He doesn't get far along the magnificent stretch of California's coastal Big Sur before he meets Temple Brooks, a runaway bride just as adrift as Jim is. Together, they ride Jim's Harley Roadster all the way to New Orleans. They just might find what they're looking for.
13) Tortilla flat
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Story of a group of Paisanos, descendants of early Mexican settlers in Northern California. They live in the tiny town of Tortilla Flat and spend their days eating, drinking and relaxing in the sun. When one of them inherits two houses the rest are soon living in the houses without paying rent. The situation is further complicated when the house owner falls for a beautiful woman.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When a man's uncle leaves him in charge of a rundown Culver City hotel, the man changes the name and soon the hotel is host to assassins, tourists, secret agents and even a group of munchkins who are filming a movie nearby.
16) Wisdom
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
John Wisdom wants to make good, but he'll never get the chance. Convicted of a felony, he finds the door to opportunity closed so he becomes a bank robber. He's a criminal for the people rather than against them, rescuing debt-ridden people by destroying bank mortgage records.
17) Being Human
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In five distinct yet cleverly interlocked roles, tells of a man who is a cave dweller, a Roman slave, a medieval wayfarer, a Portuguese nobleman shipwrecked in Africa and a modern Manhattanite whose homelife has hit the rocks. Each character reaches for survival, love, belonging; for all the things that made humankind draw together in the first place. Each is a human being faced with an unforgettable and universal challenge: Being Human.
18) Berlin express
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Filmed amid the actual bombed out ruins of Frankfurt and Berlin after World War II, this film recounts the dangerous attempts to unify Germany as four post-war heroes from Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. battle die-hard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman.
19) Fog over Frisco
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Val Bradford is amiable, upright, eager to uphold the family name. Her stepsister, Arlene, on the other hand is a volatile, risk-taking, moth hovering too close to the flame of high-living lowlifes who launder stolen bonds.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010,1956]
Language
English
Description
Story of a young boy who finds a most unusual dog in the Mississippi swamp. She's a Basenji, and boy and dog immediately fall in love. But when the dog's real owners advertise to find her, the boy is torn between his love for the dog, and what his conscience tells him he should do.