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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Get ready to meet some runaway rodents with an earth-shattering secret! Suspenseful and heartwarming, this beautifully animated odyssey stars Mrs. Brisby, a mild-mannered mother mouse with a plan to move Heaven and Earth (or at least her house and home) to save her family from Farmer Fitzgibbon's plow! Along the way she gets some help from a lovelorn Crow, a busybody neighbour mouse and a fearsome Great Owl. Unfortunately, Mrs. Brisby will need an...
42) Valiant
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2005
Language
English
Description
Valiant and his feathered friends take to the sky as they work their way into the Royal Air Force during World War II. Together this rag-tag squadron of carrier pigeons engages in aerial adventures at a spitfire pace. From the first bumbling day of basic training through the final feather-raising mission, the flock of friends swoop their way toward victory. Against the odds and an evil German falcon, Valiant is called upon for a very important assignment....
43) Rust Creek
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An ordinary woman must summon extraordinary courage to survive a nightmare odyssey in this harrowing survival thriller. Sawyer is an ambitious, overachieving college senior with a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods. Suddenly, the young woman with everything to live for finds herself facing her mortality and pursued by a band of ruthless outlaws and the woods...
44) Good boys
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After being invited to his first kissing party, twelve-year-old Max is panicking because he doesn't know how to kiss. Eager for some pointers, Max and his best friends Thor and Lucas decide to use Max's dad's drone to spy on a teenage couple making out next door. But when things go ridiculously wrong, the drone is destroyed. Desperate to replace it before Max's dad gets home, the boys skip school and set off on an odyssey of epically bad decisions....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the publishing phenomenon, Percy Jackson and other young demigod's continue to fight, but this time in the sea, to fulfill their destinies. To save their world, Percy and his friends must find the fabled and magical Golden Fleece. Embarking on a treacherous odyssey into the uncharted waters of the Sea of Monsters (known to humans as the Bermuda Triangle), they battle terrifying creatures, an army of zombies, and the ultimate Evil.
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Publisher
Universal Pictures Australasia [distributor]
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts, escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi, and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
48) Troy
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations clash after Paris, a Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power and sets off for Troy with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks. With the help...
49) The Abyss
Publisher
Twenieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2000], 1993
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling, underwater action adventure a civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.
53) The reader
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love, and history are three skeins, woven together to create human beings or, alternately, human monsters. The question of wartime culpability undergirds the May-December romance in postwar Berlin between Hanna, a weary-looking, sexually rapacious streetcar ticket-taker and Michael, a young schoolboy whom she seduces, ravenously and to his great delight....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"From Carl Sagan's collaborators on the original series, Ann Druyan and Steve Soter, comes this spectacular follow-up to one of the most beloved programs of all time ... [this series] continues the exploration of the remarkable mysteries of the cosmos and our place within it."--Container.
Author
Language
English
Description
With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three English children have a series of exciting and perilous adventures traveling on a flying bed that takes them to a London police station, a tropical island, and back in time to the seventeenth century.
56) Vacation
Language
English
Formats
Description
The next generation of Griswolds is at it again, and on the road for another ill-fated adventure. Following in his fatherb2ss footsteps and hoping for some much-needed family bonding, a grown-up Rusty Griswold surprises his wife and their two sons with a cross-country trip back to Wally World.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the publishing phenomenon, Percy Jackson and other young demigods continue to fight, but this time in the sea, to fulfill their destinies. To save their world, Percy and his friends must find the fabled and magical Golden Fleece. Embarking on a treacherous odyssey into the uncharted waters of the Sea of Monsters (known to humans as the Bermuda Triangle), they battle terrifying creatures, an army of zombies, and the ultimate Evil.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Two young children suddenly find themselves in charge of a gentle, aging circus lion. However, when the authorities threaten to split them up, the trio embarks on a perilous journey across the American Northwest. During their adventure-filled odyssey, they seek help from a sympathetic, free-spirited mountain man.
59) Yellow submarine
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Animated feature with the Beatles trying to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies.
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Many people know of the death of Rudyard Kipling's son John, but few know of the earlier death of his much-loved daughter Josephine. This film reveals the true story behind both of these deaths, creating an evocation of a man who had remarkable gifts and had to bear great personal tragedy. Combining touching dramatizations of three of Kipling's most important works with distinguished contributions from his leading biographers.