Robert Lorenz
1) Invictus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
2) The marksman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[English/Spanish version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border. But his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel.
3) Gran Torino
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, is pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's prize possession,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus-who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat-refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
5) J. Edgar
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
J. Edgar Hoover was head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
6) Hereafter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. And when London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might - or must - exist in the hereafter"--Container.
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertianment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
8) Changeling
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate a search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to...
9) Mystic River
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quite life, but harbors some...
10) American sniper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen 2-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics...
13) Rails & ties
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Making a desperate, split-second decision, railroad engineer Tom Stark allows his train to crash into a car parked on the tracks. The young boy whose mother was killed in the accident soon develops an unusual bond with Tom.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Full screen ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.