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Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A notorious mobster is brought into an under-manned police precinct on its last day of operation. Remaining cops and prisoners must fight for their lives against a group of rogue cops intent on taking down the mobster before he testifies against them.
3) Anesthesia
Publisher
Mpi Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Multiple lives cross paths when a Columbia University professor is mugged.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A notorious mobster is brought into an under-manned police precinct on its last day of operation. Remaining cops and prisoners must fight for their lives against a group of rogue cops intent on taking down the mobster before he testifies against them.
5) Trust
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the Internet, her family's bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Interviews passengers who were trapped on a Northwest Airlines plane for 8 hours in Jan. 1999. Discusses causes of rage by passengers, such as flight delays, bad food, deregulation, cost, and most importantly bad communication. Flight attendants also discuss difficulties with out-of-control passengers.
8) Hate crime
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Nice guy accountant Robbie lives an idyllic life with his partner Trey in a quiet suburban neighborhood. But when a venomous neighbor moves in and starts harassing them, hate sparks violence.
Series
Publisher
Show of Force Productions ; ITVS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A unique and essential 4.5-hour documentary series addressing the roots of gender inequality, the devastating impact of poverty and the ripple effects that follow, including: sex trafficking, teen-pregnancy, gender-based violence, child slavery and the effective solutions being forged to combat them. An edge-of-your-seat dramatic encounter which travels across the United States and to Haiti, Colombia and Kenya."--Container.
11) Hard to kill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Mason Storm, a Los Angeles detective, has been shot by a corrupt California politician and his hitmen, and left to die. But Storm doesn't die, and is hidden away for seven years in a coma-care unit. When he awakens he determines to get revenge, and enlists the help of a nurse to assist him as he builds up his strength for his confrontation with his enemies.
12) Munich
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's the 1972 Olympics and PLO terrorists have just kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and conflicts between Avner and his team's handler, Ephraim,...
Publisher
Marketed and distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Documentary film about Brandon Teena, who arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993 where he finds some new friends. Three weeks later he is brutally raped and beaten by friends who discover that he is actually a woman. A week later the same two men murder Teena along with two other people. This is a tale of Brandon's coming of age struggle with identity and how his gender ambiguity induced feelings of betrayal, confusion and hostility among...
15) It's a girl
Publisher
Shadowline Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In India and China, where sons are valued and daughters are burdens, millions of babies are killed, abandoned or selectively aborted, simply because they are girls. The result of longstanding traditions and governmental policies, this devaluation of females has led to rampant violence against women and a growing female 'gendercide.' Girls who survive infancy are often subject to neglect, and many grow up to face extreme violence and even death at...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after the destruction of the Black-owned Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, residents and descendants examine the history of the 1921 tragedy and its aftermath. Through the historical lens of white violence and Black resistance, the film explores vital issues of atonement, reconciliation and reparation.
19) Of gods and men
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true story, eight French Christian monks choose to stay in their Muslim community in Algeria despite the growing threat of terrorism by an Islamic fundamentalist group.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel's book...