Sean Bean
Author
Series
Sean Bean On Waterloo volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Battle of Waterloo took place in 1815 and ended the French Emperor Napoleon's reign over Europe. It has been called one of the bloodiest battles in history. Over two-hundred years later, Lord of the Rings actor Sean Bean works with present-day and retired soldiers as well as experts in military history to stage hands-on challenges and experiments to discover the reality of warfare.
Author
Series
Sean Bean On Waterloo volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Battle of Waterloo took place in 1815 and ended the French Emperor Napoleon's reign over Europe. It has been called one of the bloodiest battles in history. Over two-hundred years later, Lord of the Rings actor Sean Bean works with present-day and retired soldiers as well as experts in military history to stage hands-on challenges and experiments to discover the reality of warfare.
3) Black Death
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black Death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric, a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors.
4) The Dark
Author
Language
English
Description
In mourning over the tragic drowning of their daughter Sarah, James and Adèle are visited by Ebrill, a young girl who claims she died 60 years ago - and bears a startling resemblance to Sarah.
5) Ca$h
Author
Language
English
Description
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
7) Outlaw
Author
Language
English
Description
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
8) Essex Boys
Author
Language
English
Description
The riveting tale of a criminal underworld where seduction and betrayal are a way of life. When Jason Locke is released from prison, he returns home to find that his old cohorts have all profited from the empire he helped build. Trusting no one and attempting to restore his reputation, he sets off a chain of events that shakes up the underworld in a maniacal bid to shift the balance of power!
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on a captivating true story of men taken to the edge of survival in the Persian Gulf War. An elite eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines to take out Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile systems. But when communications are cut and they're surrounded by Saddam's army, their only hope is to risk capture in a desperate 185-kilometer run to the Syrian border!
10) The hitcher
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Grace and Jim hit the road in their 1970 Oldsmobile 442, en route to spring break. Their pleasure trip soon turns into a waking nightmare after encountering the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder (The Hitcher). The initial encounters with Ryder are increasingly tense for Grace and Jim, and they bravely fight back when he ambushes them. But they are truly blindsided when he implicates them in a horrific slaying and continues to shadow them. The open...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager, he's the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt, the most powerful weapon ever created! With storm clouds brewing, Percy embarks on an incredible cross-country journey to prove his innocence, recover the bolt, and prevent a war among the gods that could destroy our world!
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a decendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he had to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping the...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatchers from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. Shot entirely on location in India.
14) Don't say a word
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a prominent New York psychiatrist is kidnapped, his only hope for her safe return is to pry a 6-digit number from the memory of a troubled teenage girl--and time is running out.
15) Silent Hill
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Rose cannot accept the medical diagnosis that her daughter, who suffers nightmarish trances, is going insane. Over the protests of her husband, Rose flees with their child, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill. There, Rose is hoping that Sharon's traces can be explained. It is revealed that the town had been evacuated thirty years earlier due to an unstoppable, still burning underground coal fire. A local motorcycle cop ends up pursuing Rose and Sharon...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a decendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he had to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping the...
17) The island
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a utopian facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to "The Island." But Lincoln soon realizes that everything about his existence is a lie. He discovers that all of the inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta. Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the evil facility...
18) Cleanskin
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A British Secret Service Agent must take out a suicide bomber and his terrorist cell before they can create more trouble in the city of London.
19) Equilibrium
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement officer who tracks down and punishes "sense offenders"...
20) Black death
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric, a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors.