Matt Damon
Author
Language
English
Description
Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system -- the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across our country.
2) Rounders
Author
Language
English
Description
Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) loses his money in a poker game against Russian gangster Teddy "KGB" (John Malkovich). Under pressure from his girlfriend, Jo (Gretchen Mol), he promises to quit gambling. This lasts until his friend, Lester "Worm" Murphy (Edward Norton), gets out of prison and needs to pay off an old debt. The pair come close to earning the money back but are caught cheating. Then Mike finds out the debt is owed to Teddy and makes one...
Author
Language
English
Description
The People Speak is a beautiful and moving documentary film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States-one of the best-selling history books in the United States-and Voices of a People's History of the United States, the primary-source companion to A People's History of the United States, edited with Anthony Arnove. The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestos) of rebels, dissenters,...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good When Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon visited rural Zambia in 2006, the last thing he expected was to become a life-long champion for the battle to end the global water and sanitation crisis. He quickly realized that to make a real impact, he'd need additional expertise....
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Bourne, is pulled from the sea suffering from amnesia with a pair of bullet wounds in his back. His only clue to his own identity is a bank account number etched on a capsule implanted in his body. He finds the Zurich bank where money, a gun, and s
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel in Las Vegas with casino owner Willy Banks, the last thing Tishkoff wants is to get cut out of the deal by Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to find amusement in Tishkoff'
8) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with ideal
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Edward, the only witness to his father's suicide and a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
19th-century "folklore collectors," Wilhem and Jacob Grimm are con artists who perform bogus exorcisms of "evil enchantments" while traveling from village to village in French-occupied Germany. The two soon find themselves ensnared in a genuinely sup
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Jason Bourne has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar. He has been able to reconnect with Marie, the woman he loves. But Bourne is still haunted by vivid dreams and troubling memories of his days as a
14) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Provides an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost of over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
15) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confi
17) The Great Wall
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
"...The Great Wall is absolutely dazzling."--Village Voice.
"Simultaneously futuristic and historic, the visual spectacle carries the film, while Zhang manages to include plenty of promised 'Chinese elements'..."--Guardian.
18) Ocean's eleven
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
19) Ocean's twelve
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Ocean's Twelve reintroduces Ocean and his perfectly trained team of con men. Dividing forces to hit Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome, the heist-meisters move beyond casinos to tackle new objectives, one of which involves stealing a famous painting.
20) True grit
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....