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1) Queen & Slim
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman, are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly...
2) Earth Mama
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With two children in foster care, Gia, a pregnant single mother pitted against the system, fights to reclaim her family. In her close-knit Bay Area community, she works to make a life for herself and her kids, in this singular debut feature from filmmaker Savanah Leaf. A glowing breakout at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival starring Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Doechii, and Dominic Fike.
3) Riddick
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Riddick must fight for his life after being betrayed by his people and stranded on a desolate planet and left for dead. On this unbearably hot planet, Riddick is up against predators of an alien race. Using his emergency signals, he summons two ships: one transporting a mercenary, and the other led by an old acquaintance.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Elegance Bratton's inspirational and deeply moving retelling of his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Peter Parker, who made his sensational debut in Captain America: Civil War, begins to navigate his newfound identity as the web-slinging super hero. Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May, under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark. Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine, distracted by thoughts of proving himself.
6) Overlord
Language
English
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Formats
Description
D-Day looms, and two soldiers are prepared to sacrifice their own lives to the noble cause of bringing down the Nazis. They have a secret mission to perform when they sneak into a Nazi-occupied town, but they do not realize what kind of a time they are in for. Not only is their mission dangerous by conventional means, but it has a supernatural element to it that makes their blood run cold. Can they successfully thwart the plot unfolding in front of...
8) Ray
Language
English
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Description
Ray Charles was born in a poor predominantly black town in central Florida. He went blind at the age of 7. With the staunch support of his determined single mother, he developed a fierce resolve. He had wit and incredible talent which would eventually enable him to overcome not only Jim Crow racism and the cruel prejudices against the blind, but also discover his own sound which revolutionized American popular music. Nonetheless, as Ray's unprecedented...
9) Freeway
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Attempting to flee her life, teenage juvenile delinquent Vanessa Lutz goes to live with her grandmother. While on her way, she meets Bob Wolverton, a charming yet sadistic serial killer. Cognac Festival du Film Policier: Best Actress - Winner (Reese Witherspoon), Critics Awards - Winner (Matthew Bright), Grand Prix - Winner (Matthew Bright); Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Price (Dramatic) - Nominee (Matthew Bright); Puchon International Fantastic...
11) Halo: Season one
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After years of human civil war and growing political unrest, mankind's very future is threatened when our outermost colonies intrude upon the sacred worlds of the Covenant a fanatical powerful alliance of alien species. As the Covenant destroys world after human world only one soldier slows their advance a cybernetically enhanced 'Spartan' supersoldier, the Master Chief. But as the incredible mystery of the Covenant's true ambition, and the secrets...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Grace Hanadarko is a hard-living Oklahoma City detective whose life is careening out of control. Grace is given a second chance in the unlikely form of a gruff, tobacco-chewing angel named Earl. But turning her life around won't be easy. As dark secrets are revealed, Grace must come to grips with her explosive past and she's going to need her last-chance-angel more than ever.
13) Devil
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Five people trapped in an elevator discover that the Devil is among them.
14) The Inspection
Author
Language
English
Description
Rejected by his mother and with few options, a young, gay Black man joins the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside, unexpectedly finding camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community.
15) Freeway
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy which retells the story of Little Red Riding Hood set against a modern background of prostituion, drugs and serial killers.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by war, Corporal Chris Merriman is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her Taliban defiance escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merriman and his team will need all they can muster to fight their way across the...
17) Riddick
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A dangerous, escaped convict wanted by every bounty hunter in the known galaxy, Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. ... The only way off is for him to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty"--Container.
18) Almost Heroes
Author
Language
English
Description
Matthew Perry and Chris Farley star in the true history of the race to express the United States' Manifest Destiny to reach from sea to shining sea, which can finally be told. To the pantheon of American heroes, the two real conquerors of the American frontier can at last be added: Edwards and Hunt. This is their tale of two men who are Almost Heroes. In the late 18th century, veteran tracker and habitual drunkard Bartholomew Hunt (Farley) and foppish...
19) Almost heroes
Publisher
Warner Home Video, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A road comedy about 2 guys whose mission is to overtake the famed expeditioners Lewis and Clark and be the more fiery trailblazers of the Western North America frontier.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Grace Hanadarko is a top-notch, hard-edged police detective who is certainly no angel, but she has one on her shoulder. She is fiercely dedicated to her job which belies her self-destructive lifestyle. Taking on kidnappings, homicides, and the dark specter of the Oklahoma City bombing, Grace receives celestial guidance from a gruff guardian angel who may be her last chance for salvation. Meanwhile, Ham, Grace's partner and sometime lover, faces a...
