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Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice, one that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.
2) Red dawn
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When a town is invaded by foreign nationals and the security of the United States seems threatened, a group of high school students escape and wage warfare in defense of their parents, their friends and their country.
3) The graduate
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate from an affluent family comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and the daughter of his father's business partner.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The desolation, cynicism, and futility of war are embodied in this film based on a novel that took as its subject a real incident from World War I. Three innocent French soldiers are tried and convicted of cowardice, after their battalion fails to take a heavily fortified German position. Colonel Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, attempts to defend the men, who were chosen by a random drawing of lots. The General Staff, comfortable and safe behind the...
5) Octopussy
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2000]
Language
English
Description
A circus clown is murdered in the shadows of the Berlin Wall, a heavily guarded priceless Soviet art treasure turns up at a London auction, a tycoon arrives at conferences on a love barge, served by an army of scantily-clad lethal lovelies -- a mixture of mystery and action that only James Bond can unravel.
6) Spaceballs
Series
Language
English
Description
A spoof of the Star Wars series, with Mel Brooks playing the dastardly president of an alien race out to steal the air supply of a neighboring planet. Fearless - and clueless - space heroes Lone Starr (Pullman) and his half/man half dog sidekick Barf (Candy) wage interstellar warfare to free Princess Vespa (Zuniga) from the evil Dark Helmet (Moranis). Along the way they encounter the wise little creature Yogurt (Brooks) who teaches them the mystical...
7) Supernova
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In the farthest reaches of deep space, a medical vessel keeps a lonely vigil for those in trouble. Responding to a frantic cry for help, the ship becomes disabled. Now the crew must unravel the secrets of the mysterious survivor and the alien artifact they rescued before a forming supernova blasts them and the entire galaxy into oblivion.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to movies to escape the realities of the Depression Era life. Her favorite is "The purple rose of Cairo." When the leading man Tom Baxter decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds.
10) Rocky
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Rocky Balboa, the underdog, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect and the world heavyweight boxing crown and comes out a winner.
11) Koyaanisqatsi
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own man made environment that is devoid of nature.
12) Texasville
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Sequel to the Last picture show. It's 1984 in Anarene Texas, the sleepy town where women flirt and the men can't say no. Jacy Farrow, the girl who broke Duane Jackson's heart, has returned to Anarene. Now Duane is harried by a busted business, a sarcastic wife, a rambunctious son who steals his mistresses, and Jacy.
13) All or nothing
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path.
14) The basket
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1999
Language
English
Description
A small town in Washington must deal with change as, at the outbreak of World War I, a local pastor adopts two German children and a new teacher comes to town with the new game of basketball.
17) Silkwood
Series
Language
English
Description
Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.
18) West Side Story
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
19) At first sight
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1998
Language
English
Description
A man who has been blind since shortly after birth undergoes a surgical procedure that allows him to see again, which both enriches and complicates his life.
20) Charly
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mentally retarded man becomes intelligent after brain surgery, and romances a caseworker before slipping back into retardation. Based on Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers for Algernon.