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2) A man apart
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A DEA agent is on a deadly vendetta to take down the boss of the powerful cartel that killed his wife. He will not rest until the drug boss is dead or behind bars.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the US Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The feature will premiere in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.
5) Marshall
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
6) RBG
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
"What emerges is an intriguing portrait of a woman described as shy and retiring but with 'a quiet magnetism,' a work horse and a master legal strategist."--Toronto Star.
"Ginsburg emerges as a woman of remarkable intelligence and fortitude - who can get by on very little sleep."--Globe and Mail (UK).
"A watchable, informative and occasionally moving life history."--Newsday.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America's public schools completed the final leg of an heroic journey to end legal segregation. For 20 years, during wartime and the Depression, Marshall had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles through the Jim Crow South of the United States, fighting segregation case by case, establishing precedent after precedent, all...
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From Brett Kavanaugh to Robert Bork, this film tells the essential political history of how a 30-year-old grievance transformed the Court and turned confirmations into vehemently partisan conflicts. Offering both critical context on the state of America's judicial system and a gripping political narrative, Supreme Revenge is a must-watch look at the battle for control of America's highest court.
Pub. Date
[2011], c2001
Language
English
Description
For 40 years, John L. Lewis lashed out in elegant fury against what he called "the enemies of the working man." Learn more about this outspoken man who dared to challenge the law, the power of immense corporations, and even the authority of presidents.
11) Hidden figures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
12) Hidden figures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Rachel es una mujer inteligente y moderna, en constante movimiento. Principalmente centró en su carrera como cónsul diplomático de la embajada de EE.UU., actualmente trabaja en la Ciudad de México y se dispone a salir para Londres, sin embargo el mundo de Rachel se vuelca en la víspera de su propia fiesta de despedida cuando se emborracha y se desmaya en la calle. Rescatada por Alejandro, un cantante de mariachi guapo y padre soltero, Rachel...
Language
English
Formats
Description
City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes. With the extraordinary twist in the tale, Andy finds that...
15) Fair game
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on actual events, the status of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame is leaked by the White House after her husband writes an article challenging the basis for the U.S. war on Iraq.
Based on the autobiography of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose covert identity was exposed when her husband, retired Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote a newspaper article challenging the basis for the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction in...
Series
Narcos volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Season Three brings cocaine and the war on drugs closer to home as the Cali Cartel, emboldened by the fall of Pablo Escobar, looks to expand its operations inside America's borders. Cali Godfather Gilberto Rodriguez designs an exit strategy that will allow cartel leaders to live happily ever after, but his plans are threatened when someone within his organization teams up with DEA agent Peña in the thrilling third season of this acclaimed series....
Language
English
Formats
Description
FBI trainee Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman and save her from 'Buffalo Bill, ' a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal' Lecter, as he used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent-in-charge Jack Crawford believes that the mind manipulator Lecter may have the answers to their...
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