Michelle Rodriguez
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Milton Adams feels his world is in crisis. With his parents stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighborhood bully tormenting him, he is constantly anxious. But when Milton's optimistic Grandpa (Donald Sutherland) comes to visit, he learns the secret to finding true happiness from a man who has seen the world and who has committed to living life in the 'now'.
Author
Language
English
Description
The inspiring and untold story about the unsung professionals, their struggles on screen to perform at the highest level, and their fight off-screen to be treated fairly and equally. The movie takes us behind-the-scenes and introduces us to the female stunt performers who drive the action and thrills of Hollywood's biggest blockbuster movies from the silent age of cinema to present day.
Author
Series
Finding Your Roots volume 10
Language
English
Description
Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity very differently. In this episode we ask what it means to be Hispanic-and find that the answer lies in the tangled histories of European, Native American and African peoples. Crisscrossing Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean, and the Southwest, Professor Gates reveals stories of ancestral Conquistadors, Indian rebels, and "Crypto-Jews"...
5) Blue crush
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A female surfer rigorously prepares for a competition, hangs out with her friends and falls in love with an attractive football player.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning documentary that follows New York City fourth and fifth graders as they journey into the world of competitive ballroom dance. Winner of the Celebrate New York Award at the **Gotham Awards.** Winner of Best Documentary at the **Philadelphia Film Festival.** *"It will sweep you off your feet." - Joe Morgenstern, **The Wall Street Journal***
7) Crisis
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new non-addictive painkiller to market....
8) Machete
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Set up, double-crossed and left for dead, Machete is an ass-kicking ex-Federale who lays waste to anything that gets in his path. As he takes on hitmen, vigilantes and a ruthless drug cartel, bullets fly, blades clash and the body count rises. Any way you slice it, vengeance has a new name: Machete.
9) Furious 7
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Deckard Shaw is out for revenge against Dominic Toretto and his crew, following the death of his brother in "Fast & Furious 6." Before Shaw can do that, Dom plans to take him out first with help from Brian, Ronan, Tej, and Letty.
10) Avatar
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dom Toretto is leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon. This time, that threat will force Dom to confront the sins of his past if he's going to save those he loves most. His crew joins together to stop a world-shattering plot led by the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: a man who also happens to be Dom's...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people in this hilarious and action-packed adventure.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Alita awakens with no memory in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman. Ido also tries to shield Alita from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she...
14) Widows
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After finding a gun, money, and detailed plans for the security van hijack that killed her husband, Dolly recruits the other widows to complete the heist.
15) Fast X
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything and everyone that Dom loves, forever.
16) S.W.A.T
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When things get too tough for the cops, the cops call on the Special Weapons and Tactics unit--better known as S.W.A.T. Two wisecracking, battle-hardened veterans team up with a pair of street smart rookies to form the most free-wheeling, but effective, S.W.A.T. team ever. Their first assignment: transport an international drug kingpin to federal custody, after he's offered $100 million to anyone who will free him.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Las conversaciones que componen este "Álbum de familia" permiten trazar un bosquejo sobre la situación actual de la cultura en Venezuela, al tiempo que reflexionar en profundidad sobre la identidad del país: sus contenidos simbólicos, el impacto de la Revolución Bolivariana en su eventual reconfiguración y la suerte que han corrido sus intentos por reescribir las principales representaciones de la nación venezolana.
Las preguntas sobre qué...
18) Got a token?
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rampage: When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago.
Doom: A frantic call for help from a remote research station on Mars sends a team of mercenary Marines into action.
Ready player one: When the creator of a virtual-reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which...
20) 3 A.M
Author
Language
English
Description
A provocative, frightening, and moving film in which the good luck, bad luck, fates and fortunes of four taxi drivers collide during one incredible night in Manhattan.