Steven Spielberg
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning with a prologue in which a young Indiana Jones is introduced, the epic continues with the adult Indy embarking on a perilous quest for his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. The Nazis are on the trail of the Holy Grail, and have kidnapped the professor, who is an authority on the Cup of Christ. Indy inches through rat-filled catacombs, battles Nazis in biplane dogfights, and braves the firepower of unstoppable tanks.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relive the adventure and magic in one of the most beloved motion pictures of all-time, from Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg. Captivating audiences of all ages, this timeless story follows the unforgettable journey of a lost alien and the ten-year-old boy he befriends.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame, Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
4) The goonies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
5) Lincoln
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
6) The BFG
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
8) Hook
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high-flying adventure from the magic of Steven Spielberg, Hook stars Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Captain Hook.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Second-disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indy tries to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator. Teaming up with a rebellious young biker and his spirited love Marion, Indy takes you on a breathtaking, action-packed adventure.
10) Jaws
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the ocean surrounding Amity, a small tourist resort off the coast of New England, a 25-foot man-eating predator stalks any human foolish enough to get in the water. At first, the only believer in the shark's existence is the town's chief of police, Martin Brody. Brody enlists the help of scientist Matt Hooper and Quint, a crusty old seaman whose life is devoted to hunting sharks. The threesome sets off in Quint's boat to kill the leviathan. The...
11) Munich
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 164 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, a secret Israeli squad is assigned to track down and assassinate the 11 Palestinians believed to be responsible for the crime.
12) Gremlins
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young bank teller inadvertently breaks the rules of Mogwai care, his new pet Gizmo multiplies into a bevy of mischievous brothers, who soon morph into malevolent scaly creatures.
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense...
15) An American tail
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Russian mouse lands in New York in the 1880s, only to be separated from his family. He must now learn to live on the streets and evade the mean cats.
16) Minority report
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up.
18) Jurassic Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Collector's edition; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
20) Ready player one
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts decides to join...