Matt Damon
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join Spirit, a young wild mustang, as he sets out against impossible odds to regain his freedom and save his homeland. On his courageous journey across the American frontier, Spirit forms a remarkable friendship with a Lakota brave, outwits a squadron of soldiers, and falls for a paint mare named Rain.
4) Air
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son's immense...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason Bourne has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar. He has been able to reconnect with Marie, the woman he loves. But Bourne is still haunted by vivid dreams and troubling memories of his days as a killer, and he's not really certain how much really happened and how much is a product of his imagination. When Bourne is led out of hiding by circumstances beyond his control, he must reconcile his past...
6) Green zone
Language
English
Description
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brothers Will and Jake Grimm are con artists who perform bogus exorcisms of "evil enchantments" while traveling from village to village in 19th-century Germany. But the two soon find themselves ensnared in a genuine supernatural crisis involving truly enchanted characters, flora and fauna.
8) Invictus
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
9) Contagion
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
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.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
11) Suburbicon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
12) Ocean's twelve
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after pulling a con over Las Vegas casino owner Terry Benedict, Danny Ocean and his cohorts have lived quietly out of the spotlight in retirement. But Benedict gives the group an ultimatum to come up with $190 million dollars or else, so Danny needs to pull one more heist, in the form of separate capers in Paris, Amsterdam and Rome. In addition to a tight deadline, the gang has to cope with an agent in pursuit as well as a rival thief...
13) Oppenheimer
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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...
15) Happy feet two
Language
English
Description
"When the entire nation of Emperor Penguins is threatened, trapped by an enormous iceberg, Antarctic creatures big and small must work together to rescue them"--Container.
16) The last duel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 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.
17) Ocean's eleven
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling is asked to review the posthumous candidacy of the first woman to receive a Medal of Honor, he finds himself plunged into an apparent cover-up surrounding the actions that led to her death. As he struggles to uncover the truth, he also finds himself forced to confront his own tormenting demons."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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...
20) Air
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son's immense...