Samuel L. Jackson
1) African cats
Publisher
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011]
Language
English
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Set against one of the wildest places on Earth, experience the extraordinary adventure of two families as they strive to make a home in an untamed land. Stunning high-definition, breathtaking images bring viewers face-to-face with the majestic kings of the savanna and their true-life love, humor, and determination. Blending family bonds with the power and majesty of the wild, it's an exciting, awe-inspiring, and heart-touching experience.
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Language
English
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A bedtime book in which a father is bluntly honest about his feeling about his child not going to sleep.
"[A] bedtime book for parents who live in the real world ... profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. ... You probably should not read it to your children"--P. [4] of cover.
3) Hail Caesar
Publisher
Prism Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
2004, c1994
Language
English
Description
Julius Caesar MacGruder, the outrageous lead singer of Hail Caesar, a rock'n'roll band, wants it all. Fame, fortune, beautiful girls and a recording contract from easy Street Records. One problem, he's late at the eraser factory.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
5) Sphere
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009],
Language
English
Description
Far below the surface in the mid-Pacific, U.S. officials have isolated what may be the greatest discovery in human history. They've found a huge spacecraft that plunged into the depths--300 years ago. What is the spacecraft's origin? After three centuries, could there still be a living intelligence aboard?
6) Shaft
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With the help of his family, JJ Shaft tries to unveil the truth behind his friend's unexpected death.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A searing two character drama about the choice people frequently make, to go on or give in to despair. Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men: a black ex-con who claims to hear the voice of Jesus, and the white professor he stopped from throwing himself in front of an oncoming train.
8) Big Game
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him, a thirteen-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his family, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod.
9) African cats
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Set against one of the wildest places on Earth, experience the extraordinary adventure of two families as they strive to make a home in an untamed land. Stunning high-definition, breathtaking images bring viewers face-to-face with the majestic kings of the savanna and their true-life love, humor, and determination. Blending family bonds with the power and majesty of the wild, it's an exciting, awe-inspiring, and heart-touching experience.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they...
12) Basic
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When a drill instructor and several of his cadets disappear during training exercises in Panama, a U.S. DEA agent is called in to investigate the mysterious disapperance.
13) Shaft
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
An African American detective tries to stop a racist killer by tracking down the only eyewitness to his crimes.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Hard-luck hound Hank finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.
The story of Hank, a loveable dog who aspires to become a samurai.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
The in-depth and intimate story of one of the most important African Americans to live in the first half of the 20th century. Tells the story of Jack Johnson, who was the first African American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports - Heavyweight Campion of the World. Includes his struggles in and out of the ring and his desire to live his life as a free man.
16) Spiral
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in this terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw. Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel 'Zeke' Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer's morbid game....
17) Coach carter
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, this is the inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise, and staunch criticism, for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.
18) Freedomland
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
As a housing project cop who's respected for keeping the peace and being fair with the residents, Lorenzo Council stumbles onto the case of an apparent carjacking and child abduction one night that throws the projects into turmoil. But there's something strange in the details Brenda Martin slowly brings to light regarding her abductor and her missing child. The criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping ignites long-simmering racial tension...
19) Black Snake Moan
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
English
Description
When an ex-blues musician finds a young girl left for dead on the side of the road, he tries to heal her body and her soul. Needing some repairing of his own, he realizes that they can help fix each other..
Lazarus is an extremely religious man who is broken hearted after his wife leaves him for his own brother. Rae is the town slut, apparently afflicted with the "disease" of uncontrollable nymphomania. After a night of hard partying and sleeping...
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Publisher
Universal City Studios
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
"The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise, "--Container.