HBO Video (Firm)
361) White man's burden
Language
English
Description
Set in a time where color roles have been reversed, Louis Pinnock (John Travolta), a poor man of the ghetto, struggles to support his family. When he loses his job at the whim of the factory's owner (Harry Belafonte), Louis decides to take on the system by taking on his former boss.
Language
English
Description
For Tony, there's no such thing as business as usual. Balancing the demands of his immediate family with the demands of his other family -- Paulie Walnuts, Silvio Dante and Big Pussy Bonpensiero -- means walking a tightrope no self-respecting mobster should have to walk. With his mother and uncle plotting against him, his older sister Janice wreaking her own special kind of havoc, and the very real threat that one of his closest allies is wired by...
363) Good guys wear black
Language
English
Description
An ex-Vietnam commando, whose war actions have landed him at the top of the CIA's hit list, unravels a devious scheme of treachery and intrigue with the aid of a sexy Senate investigator.
364) Sonny
Language
English
Description
Sonny has just returned from the Army to his mother's loving arms. His mother runs a whorehouse in the sultry, sordid streets of New Orleans, and he is her best employees, but he is thinking about a career change. Until now, he's survived in a business where women paid to sleep with him, but how much will it cost him to be free?
365) The best of Arli$$
Language
English
Description
In the high energy, multibillion dollar world of professional sports, athletes need someone they can trust. Someone who is more than just an agent - more like a superagent. That someone is Arliss Michaels. Includes 13 of the most popular slam-dunk selections from the popular HBO series about a sports super agent.
366) Undefeated
Language
English
Description
A Latino boxer must navigate the path between his newfound fame, with all its seductive trappings, and his humble yet proud roots growing up on the hard, mean streets of Jackson Heights, Queens. Surrounded by his childhood friends and an old-school trainer, Lex Vargas endures a devastating personal loss before turning professional, eventually signing with a high-profile promoter. Ultimately his fame and fortune threatens to undermine the longtime...
367) The visit
Language
English
Description
When Alex is sent to prison for a crime he swears he did not commit, his family - at the insistence of their strict father - abandon Alex to his fate in prison. His spirit crushed by a cramped prison cell, Alex subjects himself to a solitary existence. With the help of a young woman he thought he would never see again, Alex fights his way out of his self-imposed solitary existence.
370) Walkout
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of the 1968 East LA student walkout, where one courageous young woman and thousands of followers stood up against academic prejudices and forever changed their world.
373) Olly olly oxen free
Language
English
Description
A junkyard owner and two boys fix up a hot air balloon and are off on adventures.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
375) Traveling man
Language
English
Description
A salesman in a sales slump is teamed with an eager rookie and finds a beautiful stranger who shows him that its never too late to find love and happiness.
Language
English
Description
An authentic account of the Vietnam War from the actual letters of the men and women who served there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships made and lost - these letters home tell it all, with newsreel and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves. These are the authentic voices of war, some who survived, many who never made it home.
Language
English
Description
Presents timeless treasures from the world of poetry, including classics by William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Langston Hughes and William Carlos Williams. Let the rhymes and rhythms transport you and encourage your child to develop a lifelong love of the music of words.
Language
English
Description
The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won their fifth World Series, thanks in great part to the young pitching and hitting sensation Babe Ruth, or The Bambino. Following the 1919 season, in which the team failed to make the Series, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold the Babe to the New York Yankees. The Sox have never won a Series since. Told with humor in the face of heartache, focuses not on the players who have come and gone, but on the die-hard fans who live...
380) A bright shining lie
Language
English
Description
The story of LTC John Paul Vann (Paxton) and his work as a military and civilian advisor in Vietnam over a ten year period (1962-72) until his death in an accidental helicopter crash. As a military advisor, Vann attempted to fight corruption in the Vietnamese army, recognizing the need to build trust among the Vietnamese peasantry. When his recommendations were ignored by the U.S. military, he exposed falsified battle reports and other deceptions...