Michelle Rodriguez
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"...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious map sets Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy, and Hefty on an exciting and thrilling race through the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does. Embarking on a roller-coaster journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history!
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[DVD].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of a vengeful surgeon known as The Doctor, whose brother was recently murdered by Frank.
6) Crisis
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen edition
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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....
7) Furious 7
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier. Brian is also on the case of the drug smuggler and he...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of terrorism and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.
11) Avatar
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus is spreading across the globe, transforming ordinary people into legions of zombies. Headed for extinction, the human race has just one hope: Alice. She's on a mission, fighting her way through cities and across continents, all inside Umbrella's prime research facility. Old friends become new enemies as she battles to escape and discovers that everything that she believes may not even be true."--Container.
13) Machete
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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...
15) Milton's secret
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Milton Adams is growing up in an uncertain world full of bullies. With his parents constantly stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighborhood bully tormenting him, Milton's world is in crisis. But when his Grandpa comes to visit, he discovers worrying about the future only make things worse.
16) S.W.A.T
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full Screen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When things get too tough for the cops, the cops call on the Special Weapons and Tactics unti - 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.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've...
18) Fast X
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (2 hours, 21 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
10 Bluray videodiscs (approximately 1254 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fast and the furious: A speed demon detective goes undercover among Los Angeles street racers in order to break up a theft ring.
2 fast 2 furious: Federal agents recruit the street racing ex-detective to help them catch an international drug lord.
The fast and the furious : Tokyo drift: After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.
Fast & furious: Brian O'Conner,...