Bill Paxton
1) Mean Dreams
Author
Language
English
Description
Mean Dreams follows courageous local farm boy Jonas and the new girl next door, Casey, as they embark on a journey away from Casey's abusive father, Officer Caraway (Bill Paxton). Under relentless pursuit from her father and corrupt law enforcement, the duo learns the hard truth of what it will take in order to survive.
2) Resistance
Author
Language
English
Description
After American fighter pilot Ted Brice (Bill Paxton) is shot down on a reconnaissance mission over occupied Belgium, local underground members hide him in a secret room belonging to a resistance leader and his wife (Julia Ormond). As she nurses the injured pilot back to health, the two slowly fall in love. But when the affair is uncovered, a shocking act of betrayal threatens them and the resistance movement, forcing the officer to make a choice that...
3) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (2 hrs. 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter selection sheet.
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
5) Nightcrawler
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are...
7) The Circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
8) Frailty
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen version (16x9 ; 1.85:first).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who has entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons". Now, years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death.
9) 2 guns
Language
English
Formats
Description
DEA agent Bobby Trench and U.S. naval intelligence officer Marcus Stigman are working undercover for a narcotics business. After a distorted attempt to infiltrate the drug cartel, they soon learn the secret of their dubious affiliation.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximatel;y 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (290 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the true American story of a legendary family feud, one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. It chronicles a clash of clans that inspired passion, vengeance, courage, sacrifice, crimes and accusations, while forever transforming the two families and the region where they lived.
12) Tombstone
Language
English
Formats
Description
U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, together, they team up to lay down the law in Tombstone, Arizona, where there will be a notorious showdown with ruthless outlaws at the O.K. Corral.
13) Haven
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shy and Andrea share a secret her parents can never know: they are in love. But their love is soon discovered, prompting a devastating act of vengeance by Andrea's brother. Meanwhile, an American businessman has fled with his daughter to avoid federal prosecution, only to be drawn into a dangerous web of deceit.
14) Twister
Language
English
Formats
Description
A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
15) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version; second-disc anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It had been less than a year since the first man walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight. That is until the words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem."
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship-at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.
17) Traveller
Publisher
Artison Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter index (1 sheet ; 19 cm)
Language
English
18) Haywire
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, Mallory is double-crossed and left for dead, by someone in her own agency. Suddenly the target of assassins who know her every move, Mallory unleashes the fury of her fighting skills to uncover the truth and turn the tables on her ruthless adversary.
19) A Simple Plan
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three men come across a downed plane with over 4 million dollars stuffed inside a duffel bag, they devise a seemingly foolproof plan to keep the money. But their scheme spirals out of control into intrigue, mistrust, and murder.
20) The colony
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A savage and unrelenting thriller about mankind's greatest enemy: himself. As an endless winter engulfs Earth, humans struggle to survive in remote underground outposts. When Colony 7 receives a distress call from a nearby settlement, Sam and Briggs race through the snow on a dangerous rescue mission. What they find at the desolate base could mean mankind's salvation-or its total annihilation. Terrifying discoveries will unfold that will change the...