(0)Charlton Heston
Pub. Date
2000
Summary
Charlton Heston stars as a hard-bitten captain making his last voyage in command of the U.S.S. Neptune, a nuclear submarine that is sunk in a collision with a Norwegian freighter. The only hope for the 41 men trapped 1450 feet down is a pair of maverick inventors racing to clear the blocked escape hatch with an experimental submersible.
7) Midway
Pub. Date
[2001]
Summary
Dramatic personal stories of the men who fought the courageous battle that was to be the Pacific turning point for the United States.
10) True lies
Summary
Harry Tasker is a top spy for the ultra-secret Omega Sector, but his wife thinks he's just a boring computer salesman. Then his two lives collide when he and his wife find themselves kidnapped by international terrorists.
Pub. Date
c2002
Summary
A magnificent Alaskan dog who leads his team to victory in the National Open Sled Dog Race, Kavik is bought by wealthy, unscrupulous businessman George Hunter, but his plane crashes en route to Seattle. Twelve-year-old Andy finds the badly wounded Kavik in the woods, nurses him back to health when no one believes he will survive, and loves the once proud dog, who is left fearful and cowardly by the accident. Hearing of Kavik's amazing recovery, Hunter...
Pub. Date
2004
Summary
When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.
14) Major Dundee
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
A Union major late in the Civil War takes it upon himself to punish a band of Apaches who murdered a ranch family and fled into Mexico. Being short of troops he uses Confederate prisoners, ex-slaves, and criminals to accomplish his goal.
15) Hamlet
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's work, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
17) Treasure Island
Pub. Date
2011
Summary
Pirate Captain Billy Bones leaves a young innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, a map indicating the location of a priceless treasure. Jim sets sail for the Caribbean in search of the treasure. But they do not realize that the ship's crew has been replaced by a band of cutthroats under the leadership of the infamous pirate Long John Silver.
18) Jeremiah Johnson
Summary
An American ex- soldier heads to the mountains to escape civilization but after Crows kill his family in retaliation for violation of a bural ground he becomes embroiled in a long-running vendetta.
Mother lode: Two bush pilots and a girl travel to British Coumbia to find the gold hidden by the McGee brothers.
19) Will Penny
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Summary
Will Penny, an aging, out-of-work cowboy, is left in the desert to die by a ruthless gang of outlaws. A beautiful young woman and her son, on her way to join her husband, stops to help him and nurses him back to health. Suddenly, Will sees a lifestyle he's never known as he falls in love with her, but the gang is on its way to finish him off.
20) The awakening
Pub. Date
2012
Summary
"The awakening is the chilling tale of American archaeologist Matt Corbeck (Charlton Heston) who arrives in Egypt with his pregnant wife, searching for the tomb of Queen Kara: his life's mission. At the same moment, he discovers the tomb and opens its accursed seal, his wife gives birth to a girl. Years later it transpires that when the tomb was disturbed, the malevolent spirit of the Egyptian queen escaped and possessed his new-born daughter Margaret...
