Oliver Stone
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (796 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-chapter documentary series, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone. Do Americans really know and understand the country's shared and complicated history? How are the small details and forgotten players that influenced some of the biggest events from America's past recalled? Will children actually get the whole story from reading history books? And how will it affect the future of the country?
22) Platoon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen; Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself.
23) Savior
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Former U.S. military official Joshua entered the Foreign Legion after his wife was killed in Paris by Muslim fundamentalists. Six years later, in Bosnia during 1993, Joshua and his pal Peter, fight together on the Serbian side. After Peter dies from a grenade tossed by a young girl, Joshua shoots another youth on the side of the enemy. In a prisoner exchange, psycho Serb Goran, a Muslim-hater, and Joshua wind up with pregnant Vera, victim of a Muslim...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man joins the army and fights in Vietnam, only to become a wheelchair-bound paraplegic resulting from battle. He then becomes a loud voice in the anti-war movement. Based on Ron Kovic's book.
25) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Platinum ed. ; [2-disc platinum ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.
26) Platoon
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Videos
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.
28) Heaven & earth
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a man who fought, a woman who endured, and a love caught up in the war in Vietnam.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiance, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
30) Any given Sunday
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Edition
Widescreen version; special ed., director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony D'Amato, the embattled Sharks coach, faces a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new, marketing-savvy Sharks owner who's sure Tony is way behind times.
31) W
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.
32) A Good American
Author
Language
English
Description
A GOOD AMERICAN is a gripping docu-thriller about a groundbreaking surveillance program, the brilliant mastermind behind it and how a perfect alternative to mass surveillance was killed by NSA-management for money – three weeks prior to 9/11.
33) JFK
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (205 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Stone's powerful film about the shots heard round the world and the mystery enshrouding them is one of the most provocative movies of the time. Aside from its box-office success, critical acclaim and awards, it played a major role in the national debate leading to passage of the 1992 Assassination Materials Disclosure Act.
34) Platoon
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color, stereo., Dolby ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of innocence lost in the war torn jungles of Vietnam as conflict between members of a single platoon unfolds.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Two-disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (214 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century B.C. conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
36) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Gold edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami; wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name.
37) JFK
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Two-disc special edition; Director's cut.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (205 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession.
38) Talk radio
Publisher
MCA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Dallas talk radio host subjects his ex-wife and co-workers to a darkly comic marathon bout of compulsive risk-taking with his unstable radio audience.
39) The Doors
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
15 year anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama focusing on the life of sixties rock star Jim Morrison.
40) JFK
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Two-disc special ed. : Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (205 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession.