Phillip Noyce
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Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her...
2) The Saint
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Want someone to infiltrate a top-secret organiz ation or steal a scientific formula that could change the world? For the right price, The Saint’s your man.
3) The giver
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
At a time when it was Australian government policy to train aboriginal children as domestic workers and integrate them into white society, young Molly Craig decides to lead her little sister and cousin in a daring escape from their internment camp. Molly and the girls embark on a dangerous 1,500-mile adventure along the rabbit-proof fence that bisects the continent to lead them home. Rabbit-Proof Fence captures their universally touching plight and...
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel set at the beginning of the United States' disastrous entanglement in Southeast Asia, idealism, love and betrayal lead to murder for THE QUIET AMERICAN.American Alden Pyle (Brandon Fraser--Crash) arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, the decisive moment in the struggle by the Vietnamese to free themselves from the French yoke. Eager to succeed in his mission to help the Vietnamese people through...
7) The Giver
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on the beloved young adult novel. A young man (Brenton Thwaites), who lives in a seemingly ideal world, must escape after discovering the deadly truths of his community’s secret past.
Pub. Date
[2003], c1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife and daughter. Meeting them outside Buckingham Palace, Ryan is caught in the middle of a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family. But Ryan's courageous act marks him as a target in the sights of the terrorists.
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CIA Agent Jack Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence when his mentor, Admiral James Greer becomes gravely ill. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands.