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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When there is an assassination attempt on U.S. President Allan Trumbull, his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the President.
2) Parkland
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
3) Red
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team - Joe, Marvin, and Victoria - and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
4) Valkyrie
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When an assassination attempt is witnessed by two cops, Gabriel Tancredi, an ex-marine turned mob enforcer, is ordered by his ruthless mob boss to eliminate any and all threats. With an eager underling out to prove himself, rival gangs making moves and a rising body count, every step Tancredi makes threatens lives...including his own.
Language
English
Description
Professor Xavier and his superhero mutants are pitted against a mutant-hating scientist who's determined to wipe them out by tricking Xavier into abusing his telepathic powers.
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Since WWII, Calvin Barr has lived with the secret that he was responsible for the assassination of Adolf Hitler. Now, decades later, the US government has called on him again for a new top-secret mission. Bigfoot has been living deep in the Canadian wilderness and is carrying a deadly plague that is now threatening to spread to the general population. Relying on the same skills that he honed during the war, Calvin must set out to save the free world...
9) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
10) Nick of time
Series
Language
English
Description
No sooner does accountant Gene Watson arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally-- or never again see his beloved child.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
12) Jackie
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of a...
13) Killing Gunther
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A group of assassins decide to kill Gunther, the world's greatest hit-man, but their plan turns into a series of fumbled encounters as Gunther seems to always be one step ahead.
14) The conspirator
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth planned the simultaneous...
15) The double
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a United States Senator is brutally murdered, the evidence points to a Soviet assassin codenamed Cassius, who was long thought to be dead. Two men who know Cassius best are thrown together to catch him. Paul Shepherdson is a retired CIA operative who spent his career tracking Cassius around the globe. Ben Geary is a hotshot young FBI Agent and family man who has studied the killer's every move. Ben thinks he knows Cassius, but Paul knows he is...
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
17) Eagle eye
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jerry and Rachel are two strangers who are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. Now they must carry out a high-tech assassination plot of an unscrupulous artificial intelligence system.
18) Dead water
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a relaxing getaway turns deadly, a former Marine must risk his life once again to save his wife and best friend from pirates.
20) Shanghai knights
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon travel to England to find out who killed Chon's father. The killer steals the Chinese Imperial Seal that Chon's father was protecting. While they are in England, they stumble upon a conspiracy to murder the entire British royal family. Only with the help of Chon's beautiful, but deadly sister, can the trio stop the assassination and return the Imperial Seal to its rightful owners.
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