Roy Scheider
1) Jaws
Language
English
Description
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
Language
English
Description
Hitler's lost sub: America had just entered World War II, but terrifying unseen weapons were stalking US targets, sinking over 400 ships just miles from American shores in the worst naval defeat in United States History.
Hitler's sunken secret: One of the most daring resistance operations of World War II was the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro, with its cargo of "heavy water" destined for the Nazi's secret atomic bomb project.
5) The Punisher
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Punisher walks through the same world we all know, a world darkened by war, by crime, by cruelty, and by injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees all around him. He only has his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience and, above all, his ironclad determination to avenge those wronged by society's villians, including those who killed his family.
6) Jaws
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
Anniversary collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it.
9) Marathon man
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going back to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer so they can learn what happened and find out the meaning of Bowman's last transmission. This will be a joint American-Soviet expedition set against the backdrop of growing global...
11) All that jazz
Series
Criterion collection volume 724
Language
English
Formats
Description
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule-mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night; and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk.
12) Great escape
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Great escape: Over six hundred Allied prisoners dug three highly sophisticated tunnels in Stalag Luft III, allowing seventy-six out of two hundred prisoners to make their escape on the night of March 24, 1944. Nazi prison escape: Details Colditz Castle, a medieval fortress used by the Nazis to house captured Allied officers who had escaped from other prisoner-of-war camps.
Pub. Date
[2012], 2011.
Language
English
Description
The Union's USS Monitor was a decisive factor in the Civil War. Today it rests in the nation's first marine sanctuary. Join a team of Navy divers as they attempt to recover priceless artifacts; meet the ship designer who built the Monitor; see a realistic reenactment of the battle that changed the course of the Civil War; and discover a powerful military past as the secrets of the Monitor's service emerge from the deep.
15) The seven-ups
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Follows a rogue squad of New York City cops, who name themselves after the minimum sentence of their targeted street hoods. Often as violent as the vicious thugs they pursue, these cops will stop at nothing to get justice in the courts--but more often--in the streets.
16) Blue Thunder
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen and fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Chosen to test Blue Thunder, Frank Murphy is amazed by the capabilities of the high-speed, high-tech chopper. It can see through walls, record a whisper or level a city block. Distrusting the military mentality behind Blue Thunder, Murphy and his partner learn the remarkable craft is slated for use as the ultimate weapon in surveillance and crowd control.
17) Chicago 10
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A look at what happened during the anti-war protest of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the subsequent trail brought against the protest organizers by the city. Includes animation, archival footage, and music from today's artists.
18) 2010
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
American and Soviet astronauts go to Jupiter in an attempt to solve the puzzle of the original Discovery flight made in 2001.
19) 52 pick-up
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Life is good for Los Angeles entrepreneur Harry Mitchell, great business, beautiful home and a gorgeous wife. Just when he thinks he'll land a seat n the city council, Harry's life suddenly spins out of control when a trio of pornographers, shows up with a video of Harry in bed with his mistress.
20) Sorcerer
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When an oil company's derrick errupts into flames, a group of outlaws and an American mobster are put in charge of transporting the nitroglycerin that will be used to snuff out the fire, over the rough terrain of a South American jungle.
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