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Summary
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
2) Galaxy Quest
Summary
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector, "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lt Tawny Madison and Dr Lazarus, set off on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space and then their series was canceled. Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beamed up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue,...
3) Oppenheimer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined that only a secret group of despicable individuals with nothing to lose can avert a potential apocalypse. So, she has assembled the world's most dangerous super villains, given them a powerful arsenal of weapons, and sent them off on a suicide mission.
6) Kandahar
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
An undercover CIA operative gets stuck in hostile territory in Afghanistan after his mission is exposed. Accompanied by his translator, he must fight enemy combatants as he tries to reach an extraction point in Kandahar.
7) Among wolves
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
Villains afoul of two religious ladies are forced to go on the run and find themselves under the wing of two morally gray outlaws who ferry them to safety.
8) Big George Foreman: the miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
The biographical film of boxing legend George Foreman.
Pub. Date
Ã2005
Summary
The Griffin household includes two teenagers, a cynical dog who is smarter than everyone else, and a mutant baby who makes numerous attempts to eradicate his parents and siblings. Heading up this eclectic household is Peter Griffin. Peter does his best to do what's right for the family, but along the way, he makes mistakes that are the stuff of legend.
10) Casa Susanna
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place for them to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed of dressing as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression. Told through the memories of those whose visits...
Pub. Date
2023.
Summary
The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong₂s Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal and weighing a future where their cultural and political...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Summary
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002-c2003
Summary
Phillip Fry is a 25-year-old pizza delivery boy whose life is going nowhere. When he accidentally freezes himself on December 31, 1999, he wakes up 1,000 years in the future and has a chance to make a fresh start. He goes to work for the Planet Express Corporation, a futuristic delivery service that transports packages to all five quadrants of the universe. His companions include the delivery ship's captain, Leela, a beautiful one-eyed female alien...
15) Paul Bunyan
Series
Summary
Presents a reading of the book Paul Bunyan, by Steven Kellogg. Deals with a forest fire, Smokey Bear, and woodsmen competitions. Shot on location in Maine and hosted by LeVar Burton.
16) Mudbound
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Summary
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
Pub. Date
2023]
Summary
"These acclaimed History Channel miniseries explore the era-defining, indelible impact of two of America's most iconic presidents. Featuring expert commentary, dramatic live-action sequences, rich archival material, and never-before-seen documents, this riveting collection charts the challenging, inspiring journeys that shaped the lives and presidencies of these towering figures"--Adapted from container.
19) Warhorse one
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
While conducting a rescue operation to evacuate desperate missionaries during the 2021 U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, a SEAL team helicopter is shot down and the one remaining member, Master Chief Richard Mirko, continues alone. When he reaches the target of his mission, he finds an ambushed vehicle and only one survivor a traumatized little girl. Can he get her to safety through a gauntlet of hostile insurgents and the brutal Afghan wilderness?...
Pub. Date
2016.
Summary
The hateful eight: A stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Losing their lead on the blizzard, they seek refuge at Minnie's, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover,...