Bill Paxton
1) Mean Dreams
Author
Language
English
Description
Mean Dreams follows courageous local farm boy Jonas and the new girl next door, Casey, as they embark on a journey away from Casey's abusive father, Officer Caraway (Bill Paxton). Under relentless pursuit from her father and corrupt law enforcement, the duo learns the hard truth of what it will take in order to survive.
2) Resistance
Author
Language
English
Description
After American fighter pilot Ted Brice (Bill Paxton) is shot down on a reconnaissance mission over occupied Belgium, local underground members hide him in a secret room belonging to a resistance leader and his wife (Julia Ormond). As she nurses the injured pilot back to health, the two slowly fall in love. But when the affair is uncovered, a shocking act of betrayal threatens them and the resistance movement, forcing the officer to make a choice that...
3) Frailty
Author
Language
English
Description
Years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death. Convinced that he knows the killer's identity, Fenton Meiks shows up at FBI Headquarters, intent on putting an end to the murderous rampage and relieving his conscience of his family's sinister secrets.
5) Texas rising
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of the creation of the Texas Rangers.
6) Apollo 13
Publisher
MCA/Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
True story of how three astronauts, stranded 205,000 miles above the earth, fight a battle to survive while Mission Control works against time to bring them home.
9) U-571
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the Nazi's top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
10) Nightcrawler
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
11) A simple plan
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When two brothers and their friend find millions of dollars inside a crashed plane in a nature preserve, their plan to keep it from the authorities and split it later yields tragic consequences.
12) True lies
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Vertical limit
Publisher
Columbia Triustar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
When mountain climbers are trapped by an avalanche on 28,250 foot-high mountain K2 in Pakistan, a rescue team races against time to save them.
14) Mighty Joe Young
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-foot-tall Central African gorilla is brought to America to save him from poachers. But his notoriety makes him a target for an enemy from his past.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship-- at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.
16) Tombstone
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.
17) Frailty
Publisher
distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons". Now, years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned-- leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death.
18) Twister
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
19) The Colony
Author
Language
English
Description
Years ago, winter came and left. Survivors have tried to build a new society underground, but they soon learn the real danger is not from the ice and cold, but from their fellow survivors.
Author
Language
English
Description
Bill Paxton & Arcana Comics presents 7 Holes for Air. Bob Rourke is the kind of man they don't make anymore. He's a tough son of a bitch: A fifty-year-old steelworker who smokes, drinks, and never complains, even when he's in pain. After a persistent headache sends him to a doctor for the first time in his life, Bob learns he's facing the end. With disease ravaging his body, Bob soldiers on at home, at work and in an alternate Spaghetti Western reality...