Forest Whitaker
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When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture, as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry...
2) Arrival
Pub. Date
[2017]
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When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity
4) Taken 3
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Ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose long awaited reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered, must use his 'particular set of skills' to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now: his daughter.
5) Taken 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose long awaited reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered. Consumed with rage, and framed for the crime, he goes on the run to evade the relentless pursuit of the CIA, FBI and the police. For one last time, Mills must use his 'particular set of skills,' to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now,...
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After leaving his LAPD narcotics post, Sheriff Ray Owens moved and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Juction. That peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez, one of the most notorious drup kingpins, makes an escape from the FBI. Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border, straight through Summerton Juction.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
9) Panic Room
Description
A divorced woman and her little daughter buy a house to begin their new life together. What they think is a dream house soon becomes anything but when thieves break in shortly after they move in. But, mother and daughter make it to the steel-reinforced panic room and what they think is protection from the would be thieves. As it turns out, what they're after is in that room and they're not leaving without it.
10) Vantage Point
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
U.S. president Ashton is in Salamanca, Spain to announce plans for a major global summit on terrorism. As he stands behind the podium in front of a loudly cheering crowd, he is shot twice. This is followed minutes later by a small explosion and then a massive blast. Secret Service agents Barnes, Taylor, and Holden immediately jump into action, trying to find the terrorists responsible amid all the chaos. The assassination attempt is replayed from...
11) The paperboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds.
12) Burden
Description
It tells the incredible true story of Michael 'Mike' Burden, an ardent young member of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan who rose to the rank of Grand Dragon and walked away from all of it with the help of new love and an unlikely ally, the African American religious leader and social activist Reverend David Kennedy.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Good night, gorilla: The zookeeper makes his nightly rounds but never suspects that someone is making mischief along the way. How do dinosaurs say good night: Even dinosaurs make a fuss before bedtime. Happy birthday, moon: Little bear and the moon wish each other happy birthday. Napping house: Granny and all her critters pile on her bed for a nap.
14) Dragon hunters
Description
A little girl who believes in fairytales must help her uncle get rid of a dragon, and tries to find some help in the form of two bumbling dragon hunters, in order to restore peace. Bonus features include interviews, character biography, featurettes, and more.
15) Black Panther
Appears on list
Description
King T'Challa returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne from divisions within his own country. When two enemies conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must join forces with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Wakandan Special Forces, to prevent Wakanda from being drawn into a world war.
17) Green dragon
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who speaks English becomes a translator for the Marine.
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Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
19) Hope Floats
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.