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- Using a crack team of doctors and his wits, an antisocial maverick doctor specializing in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way.
- A mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.
- A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
- Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
- The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.
- When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
- A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
- A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
- A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
- Set against the backdrop of boxing at the Naval Academy, centers on a young man from the wrong side of the tracks whose dream of attending Annapolis becomes a reality.
- The "terrible trio" of "Summer of '42" has graduated high school. Now the real learning begins. For Benjy, 1944 is a time to serve his country.
- A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from him and his friends.
- Dr. Noah Praetorius falls in love with Deborah, a student who discovers that she is pregnant by her old boyfriend.
- Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
- Harry breaks down and loses his job after his wife is assassinated - could it be his turn next ?
- Meagan Mullen, freshly moved in her new home, keeps in touch with her friends and family through a video blog. As her entries (and her life) become more complex and emotional, strange things begin to happen in her room: and the camera captures all of it. Told primarily from the point of view of an ordinary wireless webcam, The Death of April documents the unsettling activity in an otherwise average girl's bedroom - and the mysteries that surround it.
- When a quick-witted but co-dependent college girl helps her best friend land a boyfriend, she's left on the outside looking in and is forced to deal with the realities of adulthood for the first time.
- Karthik, an engineering graduate, wants to make films. He falls in love with Jessie, his neighbour, but her father opposes their relationship due to religious differences.
- A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.
- Cabin fever inspires three friends to create a series of fitness videos. However, things quickly turn dark as a host of supernatural entities including Slenderman, The Rake, and the psychotic HABIT enters their lives to wreak havoc.
- Life altering sins of the past revisit modern day lost souls in a small town...40 years later.
- The Captains is a feature length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed Starship captains within the illustrious science-fiction franchise.
- Investigation Discovery presents the modern-day Clarice Starling as Dr. Michelle Ward goes behind bars to interview violent murderers and offer insight into what drives people to kill with the new series THE MIND OF A MURDERER premiering Thursday, February 19 at 10/9c. From her early doctorate research on psychopathy, to her ongoing study of criminal behavior, Dr. Ward possesses a unique ability to push murderers to the limit, getting them to admit things they wouldn't confess to anyone else. She is trained to go beyond excuses and get to the psychological core of why people commit heinous acts - and she does it alone in a room, face-to-face with coldblooded killers.
- Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
- A look at the relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric.
- Movie version of Frank Ferruccio's book, Diamonds to Dust: The Life and Death of Jayne Mansfield. This film focuses on the exciting 1960's turbulent life of Legend Jayne Mansfield.
- ABDUCTION: The town of Process is located somewhere in rural New Jersey. It's been in existence for over 100 years, although it's not on any known map. It's a nice place to visit, with lovely shops and friendly people. That is unless you are single, young, healthy and good looking! It's even worse if you are a female of childbearing age. The town has a very lucrative underground and Internet business specializing in selling human organs for transplant, selling babies to loving couples who are barren and auctioning young women into sex slavery. They also have specialty shops which do a brisk business in antiques, leather crafts, custom wigs and used automobiles. The town's patriarch, Jacob, is in control of everything and rules the town with his nephew, Johnny, that is until they kidnap the wrong girl. Unbeknownst to Jacob and his followers, they kidnap a popular, well not popular in the United States yet, Brazilian Hip Hop Star named Bella. What follows is their attempt to dispose of this "Star". Complications arise when her friend and bodyguard Donny turns up in the town looking for his friend Sam who also disappeared. GPS units, cell phones and other modern gadgets, threaten the existence of the town itself. What will Jacob and his followers do? Who will survive?
- Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.
- When Alex, a precious nine-year-old boy, develops a crush on Jared, the moody twenty-five-year-old handyman who works in the mansion where he lives, he will stop at nothing to get his attention.
- STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians and actors Michael Showalter, David Wain, and Michael Ian Black. Though the three have made a living performing at comedy clubs, they are perhaps best known for their homemade short films. The STELLA SHORTS have garnered cult success because of their nonsensical plotlines, absurd dialogue, graphic sexual humor, sporatic violence, and sheer hilarity. This DVD showcases the trio's first twenty-three adventures, each one more bizarre and hysterical than the last. Highlights include: a game of whiffleball that goes terribly awry, an expedition to the South Pole to meet Santa Claus, an edge-of-your-seat moustache-growing contest, a twisted "whodunit" murder mystery, and much, much more.
- N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdos, directed by George Paul Csicsery.
- Joyce Carol Oates has written over one hundred novels in a variety of genres over an award-winning career. Years of friendship and tireless research gave director Stig Björkman unprecedented access to the writer's solitude.
- To secure a lucrative government contract, a company agrees to not discriminate against minorities and integrates its office. Then all-white staff is horrified when an African-American secretary is hired.
- The film is based on the inner conflicts of relationships, which hitherto never spoken earlier, but in a festive atmosphere of Holi, each one loses the inhibitions. The relationships eventually come out stronger.
- Depicts a cast of fine artists and eccentric scientists (from MIT and NASA) who have devoted their lives to the unlikely medium of modern origami. Through their determination to reinterpret the world in paper, they arouse a fascinating mix of sensibilities towards art, form, expressiveness, creativity and meaning.
- When the World Breaks" is a film about creativity and survival during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with striking parallels to today. Depression-era life and art come alive with rare film clips and personal stories from survivors.
- A young woman investigates her mother's secret past -- by following her ghost.
- Real life stylists go onto the streets of major cities looking for people to give makeovers. Usually they are to be completed in time for outings that particular night.
- In an effort to revive the failing Partham Pollawogs, Ball coach John Yossarian Speed and consultant Stacy Callahan team up to recruit the ultimate underdog team: a team so bad at Ball, they HAVE to win. Impressionable youngster Bobby McBean and a host of other zany personalities join the team, and in the process, learn what Ball is really about.
- A bleak little comedy about falling in hate.
- Residing on opposite sides of the Delaware River, Capital City and Pottersfield are political and socioeconomic enemies dividing people of the same class. An upsurge of bizarre homicides baffles authorities as a disturbing new drug leads to a multitude of overdose victims mysteriously washing ashore on the river banks of both towns.
- The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of the former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.
- A student tries pot for the first time, loves it and decides to distribute it in a big business kind of way. Soon he has the police and the mafia on his tail.
- A middle-aged college professor named Nicholas falls for an attractive young graduate student at the university where he works. Still nursing the wounds of his recent divorce, Nicholas is jaded and reticent when it comes to his personal life, but he's no match for Delilah's charm and beauty. Their relationship ignites with passion, but quickly spirals out of control when Nicholas discovers Delilah's got a few secrets of her own. And so the question is, what if love really doesn't conquer all?
- A short industrial film that seeks to help working men and their wives deal with life's little problems.
- In the Beginning there was Light tells about the phenomenon "light nourishment", the incredible claim that there are individuals who neither eat nor drink.
- Follow Alex Rodriguez across America as he discovers and curates records for Coachella Music Festival's on-site record store while in the process meeting and swapping stories with fellow collectors and musicians.
- In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread-- a little-known mathematician, with no permanent job, working in complete isolation had made an important breakthrough towards solving the Twin Prime Conjecture. Yitang Zhang's techniques for bounding the gaps between primes soon led to rapid progress by the Polymath Group, and a further innovation by James Maynard. The film is a study of Zhang's rise from obscurity and a disadvantaged youth to mathematical celebrity. The story of quiet perseverance amidst adversity, and Zhang's preference for thinking and working in solitude, is interwoven with a history of the Twin Prime Conjecture as told by several mathematicians, many of whom have wrestled with this enormously challenging problem in Number Theory-- Daniel Goldston, Kannan Soundararajan, Andrew Granville, Peter Sarnak, Enrico Bombieri, James Maynard, Nicholas Katz, David Eisenbud, Ken Ribet, and Terry Tao.
- A copycat serial killer is stalking Manhattan. When an old friend of NYPD undercover cop, Willy Diaz, aka 'The Mercy Man,' is murdered, Diaz embarks on an odyssey through the city's mean streets to catch the killer.