Aldis Hodge
1) Brian Banks
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Description
The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks (Greg Kinnear) and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim his life...
Pub. Date
c2019.
Description
Set in 1990's Boston, an assistant district attorney and a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran work together to take on a case that grows to involve, and ultimately subvert, the entire criminal justice system of Boston. Family, blood, betrayal, honor, corruption, all combine in this powerful series that's one-part gritty thriller and another intimate family drama.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1106
Pub. Date
[2021]
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A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
Pub. Date
[2017]
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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...
6) Clemency
Pub. Date
2020
Description
A prison warden sees a series of executions put a strain on her marriage, career, and convictions.
Description
Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy scientist, Cecilia Kass escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being...
8) Brian Banks
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The inspirational true story, an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim his life and fulfill his dreams of playing...
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Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy scientist, Cecilia Kass escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Leverage focuses on a team led by former insurance investigator turned thief, Nate Ford. Together, they try to level the playing field for people whose lives have been destroyed by the rich and powerful. In the final season of Leverage, the team will be forced to face changing personal dynamics as the relationship between Parker and Hardison heats up, and Nate continues to struggle with inner demons.
11) What men want
Description
Ali Davis is left on the outside by her fellow sports agents because she is a woman in a male-dominated profession, but she acquires an unexpected edge when she develops the ability to hear men's thoughts.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Leverage follows a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford exposed scams and recovered stolen items worth millions. But his life hit the skids when his insurance company allowed his ailing 8-year-old son to die. Years later, Nate gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists that right corporate and governmental injustices...
13) Leverage
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Follows a team of high-tech criminals led by an ex-insurance investigator as they try to thwart corporate and governmental injustice.
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
With the team's leader, Nate Ford, now behind bars and his nemesis working for Interpol, a beautiful but mysterious stranger steps in to call the shots for TV's hottest gang of master thieves. Season Three of this action-packed series starts off with a bang as the teammates devise schemes to free Nate from prison, expose a trafficker's child slave-labor ring, and infiltrate a Department of Defense research lab to take down international terrorists....
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The stakes have never been higher in the fourth season of Leverage, the thrilling crime drama that puts the viewer at the heart of the action. Timothy Hutton returns as Nate Ford, now more determined than ever to fight injustice with the help of his elite team of crack con artists.
17) Hidden figures
Pub. Date
2017
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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
Description
"Leverage focuses on a team led by former insurance investigator turned thief, Nate Ford ... . Together, they try to level the playing field for people whose lives have been destroyed by the rich and powerful. In the final season of Leverage, the team will be forced to face changing personal dynamics as the relationship between Parker ... and Hardison ... heats up, and Nate continues to struggle with inner demons"--Container.
Author
Series
Leverage Redemption volume 9
Description
Prompted by Arthur Wilde, the team takes on a husband-wife couple who run a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme that preys on young mothers, emotionally and financially.