Peter Weir
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the...
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Truman's life is a fake. He lives in a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere. His friends and co-workers are actors who play their roles in the most popular television series in the world: The Truman show. He thinks he is an ordinary man and has no idea about how he is being exploited. What will he do when he finds out?
4) The way back
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"Inspired by an incredible true story... begins in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs...
5) Green card
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience. She gets the apartment of her dreams, and he gets a green card to live in the U.S. Before they know it, the two encounter difficulties, and worse yet, they just might be falling in love.
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
7) Fearless
Pub. Date
1999
Description
A young man who survived a plane crash becomes more wildly alive and takes more risks when he discovers that the crash transformed him into a man without fear of death. Meanwhile, his wife struggles to find within him the man she married, and another survivor of the crash believes nothing and no one can heal her pain.
8) Gallipoli
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Two friends are involved with the battle between Australia and the German-occupied Turks in this commentary on the wastes of war.
9) Witness
Pub. Date
2005
Description
An Amish boy traveling with his mother witnesses a murder; the detective assigned the case flees with them, trying to blend in with the Amish and avoid detection after the boy exposes a narcotics agent as the murderer.
10) Witness
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Ford stars as a detective trying to solve a murder of a narcotics agent and comes up against the nonviolent Amish woman and her son who may have witnessed the murder.
12) Gallipoli
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915.
13) Witness
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their savior turns out to be hardened Philadelphia detective John Book, who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community.
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Masterand Commander: During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet...
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Cast away: A FedEx engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island.
The last of the Mohicans: Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, is tested by fate amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
Master and commander: Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey is torn between duty and friendship as he...