Ossie Davis
Publisher
GT Media
Pub. Date
[2006], c2001
Language
English
Description
A look at the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the integral relationship between the civil rights leaders and African American churches. Chronicles the non-violent revolution in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. The price paid was often high, but the victory led to equal access to transportation, education, public facilities, and ultimately, the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
2) Dr. Dolittle
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a physician's ability to communicate with animals.
3) Dinosaur
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When a meteor destroys their island home, Aladar, a dinosaur, and the family of lemurs that raised him, search for safety and a new home on the continent.
4) Dr. Dolittle
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Description
The re-awakening of Dr. Doolittle's ability to communicate with animals unleashes an outrageous and hilarious chain of events.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
The story of an experiment -- "to see if Blacks had the intellectual and physical ability to fly an aircraft in combat." These pilots, trained in the "deep South," became the Tuskegee Airmen, flying combat aircraft during World War II for their country. They had to battle on 2 fronts: the Axis powers in Europe and North Africa, and the racism at home.
7) Bubba Ho-tep
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it's up to an aging, cantankerous Elvis, and a decrepit and black JFK, to defeat a 3,000-year-old-Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking human souls.
Publisher
Atlantic
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A young runaway breaks into an old movie palace in search of shelter on a snowy Christmas Eve. There, an old caretaker uses the ghosts and spirits of the abandoned building to turn the girl's life around. Features performances of Christmas favorites and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's arrangements of holiday classics.
9) The stand
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Millions perish, and as small, isolated frightened bands unite, the answers to their perpetual questions to justify this end of civilization are bared in their dreams--revelations that urge some to embrace a path of virtue and others one of darkness. As the opposing forces separate into two camps, the noble elements try to shield themselves from their corrupt enemy.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
11) Dinosaur
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron.
12) Grumpy old men
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grumpy old men: neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street. Grumpier old men: grumpy old men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer (Sophia Loren) plans to change the town's bait shop into a ristorante.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Dolittle: A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle (Murphy) seems to have the world by the tail, until a long-suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals, is suddenly reawakened ... with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice. unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!
Dr. Dolittle 2: When Dr. Dolittle's...
15) Thomas Jefferson
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1997
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan in 3 roles as the women in Joe's life have their way.
18) The stand
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994, 2013
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government denies that there's a problem when the horrifying deaths begin, but within a few days, only one percent of the world's population is left alive after a deadly virus escapes from a California research lab. The shattered remnants of humanity face the end of civilization and the beginning of the ultimate battle between good and evil.
19) Queen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will.