Gale Anne Hurd
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Series
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kanopy, in partnership with Drafthouse Films, is proud to premiere this advanced preview of Alex Winter's new documentary, The YouTube Effect. Only available on Kanopy, from May 15th through May 19th! [Exclusive live Q&A with director Alex Winter at 4pm ET on May 18th: Register now!](https://lib.kanopy.com/youtubedoc/) In this eye-opening documentary, Alex Winter presents a thoughtful, troubling look at YouTube, a site with humble origins that has...
3) Aliens
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ripley returns to the alien planet to stop them from killing off an entire colony. But when she gets there, along with a group of marines, they only find one survivor, a small girl. Now they must fight hordes of aliens to save her.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Two lions on a man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway in 1896 East Africa. The beasts hunt together, showing no fear of man or fire. What's more, they're killing for sport rather than for food--and they have an almost supernatural knack for knowing what traps await them. Big-game hunter Remington and construction engineer Patterson set out to stop these unstoppable monsters. But, in this astonishing tale of man against beast,...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1968 a young college drop-out named George A. Romero directed Night of the living dead, a low budget horror film that shocked the world, became an icon of the counterculture, and spawned a zombie industry worth billions of dollars that continues to this day. Birth of the living dead shows how Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers - policemen, iron workers, teachers, ad-men, housewives and a roller-rink owner - to shoot a revolutionary...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff, Rick Grimes, finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by an epidemic. In the weeks and months that follow the apocalypse, Grimes will lead a group of survivors in a world overrun with zombies.
7) Hell fest
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. Warmongers dream of abusing his powers and won't leave Bruce alone. He suffers from his constant need to be with the only woman he has ever love, Betty Ross, and Bruce knows that he must return to civilization. The brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and aggression called The Abomination whose powers match that of...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Infamous vigilante, Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, has been on his vengeance driven zeal for the past six years. He brutally assaults a 'beat the rap' party for the notorious mob boss Gaitano Cesare. He hideously disfigures gangster Billy Russoti and murders a mafia lackey who turns out to be an undercover FBI agent. Agent Paul Budiansky is the ex-partner of the undercover agent who joins the NYPD's 'Punisher Task Force' to help bring Castle...
10) The Terminator
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah Connor protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. Warmongers dream of abusing his powers and won't leave Bruce alone. He suffers from his constant need to be with the only woman he has ever love, Betty Ross, and Bruce knows that he must return to civilization. The brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and aggression called The Abomination whose powers match that of...
12) The punisher
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Frank Castle is a man who has seen too much death. Undercover and on his final assignment, Frank plays his role perfectly, but the operation gets out of control and a young man named Bobby Saint is inadvertently killed. Howard Saint holds Castle responsible for the death of his son and risks his newfound legitimacy on a wholesale mission of blood-vengeance. Saint and his lieutenants butcher Frank's family during a family reunion and leaves Frank for...
13) Hulk
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A scientist performs regeneration experiments on himself, and passes on the genes to his son, Bruce. Now Bruce is performing experiments that expose him to radiation and nanomeds, which combined with his unique genes, unleashes the Hulk.
14) Armageddon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When NASA's director realizes the Earth has 18 days before it's destroyed by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one option: land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuke into its core.
15) Armageddon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When NASA discovers a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth, a crew of roughneck oil drillers is sent in to plant a nuclear warhead that should destroy it.
The U.S. government calls upon an oil-well driller and his colorful crew to save the world by flying to an asteroid that's on a collision course for earth and setting off a nuclear bomb to divert it.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors led by Morgan Jones and Alicia Clark have a clear mission: locate survivors and provide help for others in an effort to make up for the wrongdoings of their pasts and make what's left of the world a slightly better place.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors led by Morgan Jones and Alicia Clark have a clear mission: locate survivors and provide help for others in an effort to make up for the wrongdoings of their pasts and make what's left of the world a slightly better place.
18) Dante's peak
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
A long-dormant volcano erupts, threatening the residents of a small town.