Bill Borden
Series
Language
English
Description
Troy, Gabriella, Chad and Sharpay are getting ready to graduate from high school. Troy is the school basketball champ who secretly wants to sing and dance. His girlfriend is Gabriella, but she is going to a college that is far away from Troy. Troy's best friend is Chad. He doesn't want high school to end. The evil Sharpay wants Gabriella's part in the school play. As college approaches, the seniors are struggling with the idea of being separated from...
2) Desperado
Language
English
Description
A mysterious Mexican guitar player searches for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.
3) La bamba
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The life of rock and roll legend Richie Valens bursts across the screen in this celebrated, music-filled movie with star-making performances. Depicts the 17-year-old Mexican-American's rocket rise to fame from field laborer to rock star.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dives straight into the fascinating controversy of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March and the larger question of what it means to be a black man in modern America. The film follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the march in Washington D.C. On the way, they will make friends, make enemies, and make history.
7) La bamba
Series
Criterion collection volume 1193
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The brief but incandescent life of rock-and-roll trailblazer Ritchie Valens is immortalized in this enthralling biopic from another Mexican American icon, Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano cinema. With sweetness and swagger, Lou Diamond Phillips embodies the 1950s California teenager who, forged by his fiercely supportive mother and rebellious brother, rises from his farm-working roots to chart-topping fame in the early days of rock, until one fateful...
Pub. Date
[2007], ℗♭2007.
Language
English
Description
For Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, summer vacation is no day at the beach. Thanks to Troy, they are all working at a country club founded by Ryan and Sharpay's family. The club's annual talent show is right around the corner and Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. She dumps Ryan as her singing partner and starts wooing Troy to join her onstage instead. Gabriella is not very happy that Tony agreed to sing with Sharpay, instead of her....
10) A midnight clear
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A small American army intelligence squad locates a German platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight each other.