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Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family - and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget.
It's the summer of 1960 and introverted 14 year old, Walter, is unceremoniously dumped by his single mother, Mae, at the Texan farm of eccentric great uncles, Hub and Garth. Walter has never met them before, but the legend has it, they were bank robbers, mafia hitmen...
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Series
Language
English
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"When the Ridgeway family staked their claim on more than 40,000 acres of land in northwest Texas, they knew they had their work cut out for them. Located on a sharp bend of the treacherous Red River, their new home - the Rocking R Ranch - was just a stone's throw away from Indian territory. It was as lawless and wild as the West itself, crawling with unsavory characters, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, outlaws, robbers, and worse. But still, the...
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
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.
4) True women
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Language
English
Description
A powerful, moving story about two fearless women, of friendship, romance, courage and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia, move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas plains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled with $2 million and a truck loaded with heroin. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On his the way from El Paso to the Mexican border, he discovers he's being followed...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
7) Whip it
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Bliss Calendar is a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Tired of following in her family's footsteps of compliance and conformity, Bliss discovers a way to put her life on the fast track, literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes 'Babe Ruthless', the hottest thing on eight wheels.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
J.L. is an old-fashioned, conservative cowboy who owns a large ranch in a small Texas town and is the patriarch of a sizeable family that all take shelter under his roof. He has to battle the outside forces of the modern world that is rapidly creeping into his expanding town in order to maintain possession of his treasured ranch and to keep his family together.
9) Exit speed
Publisher
Distributed by Peace Arch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Christmas Eve. Ten strangers are on a bus traveling through Texas. They are forced off the road by members of a motorcycle gang when they collide with one of their meth-addicted bikers. The passengers have to take refuge in an abandoned scrap yard. When their defense against the gang weakens and their numbers begin to dwindle, they must do the unthinkable and go on the offense. They use improvised weapons and sheer guts to mount a strike on the bikers....
10) Black fox
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas.
11) Across the line
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
While investigating the murder of a young couple by drug smugglers, Sheriff Grant Johnson (Brad Johnson) uncovers secrets that will shock everyone along the Texas border.
12) Leatherface
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A teenage leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty -- a voyage filled with revenge and redemption that will change both men forever -- and bring some...
Series
Friday Night Lights volume 2
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the town finds their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
15) Giant
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
17) Paradise Texas
Publisher
Distributed by] Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A boy from a small town meets a Hollywood actor when they're cast in the same movie, and teach each other life lessons, when one tries to shake his father's plans for him, as the other tries to salvage the family his career has torn apart.
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
After climbing Pampa High School's popularity chain, taking her volleyball team to the state championship, and founding the school's first drug-, alcohol- and violence-free club, Amy Newhouse must now fight the biggest battle of her life -- cancer.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A modern-day hero who still believes in living the frontier code, Cordell Walker's methods are right out of the Old West-- but his independent ways pay off when it comes to putting bad guys behind bars. With his partner James "Jimmy" Trivette, ex-Ranger buddy C.D. Parker, and beautiful assistant D.A. Alex Cahill, Walker takes a hands-on, no-holds-barred approach to fighting injustice in one thrilling, action-packed case after another.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A modern-day hero who still believes in living the frontier code, Cordell Walker's methods are right out of the Old West-- but his independent ways pay off when it comes to putting bad guys behind bars. With his partner James "Jimmy" Trivette, ex-Ranger buddy C.D. Parker, and beautiful assistant D.A. Alex Cahill, Walker takes a hands-on, no-holds-barred approach to fighting injustice in one thrilling, action-packed case after another.