Peter Berg
Author
Series
Description
Dieses Buch ist als Roman aus der Zeit gefallen. Erzählungen brauchen eine Form. Was aussieht wie ein Buch, ist hier nur die Hülle einer komplexen Geschichte. Sie hält die Fragmente zusammen. Als Bruchstücke eines Lebens sind sie überhaupt nicht fiktiv, sie sind durch und durch wahr und somit autobiographisch.
Im Gegensatz zu einem Tagebuch ist es ein Nachtbuch, denn es ist vor allem das Dokument vieler Nachtstunden.
Ein wesentliches Merkmal...
Author
Description
How much do you know about your neighborhood? Noted ecologist Peter Berg will ignite your curiosity about what bioregionalism is, and encourage you to inhabit the region in which you live. It is his experience that this endeavor ignites joy and wonder, and establishes a connection to nature for which everyone is starved.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
Set in 1944 France, in the Ardennes forest region, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and share a Christmas celebration. The surrender plan includes a mock battle that turns bad when one of the soldiers is unaware of the surrender plan.
5) Battleship
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Based on the classic Hasbro naval combat game, Battleship is the story of an international fleet of ships who come across an alien armada while on a naval war games exercise. An intense battle ensues over sea, land, and air.
6) Patriots Day
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Description
The story of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath.
7) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
9) The kingdom
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, causing an international incident to ignite. FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Fleury and his team discover that the Saudi authorities are suspicious and unwelcoming of the Americans into what they consider a local matter. The agents find...
10) The rundown
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Beck is anxious to retire from his bounty hunter work, but his boss, Walker, has one more "retrieval" job for him. He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis. Travis is there looking for a gold statue, which he could sell for millions if he finds it. The powerful Hatcher owns the area's huge mine, and feels that anything found in the area is his property. He refuses to let Beck take Travis back to the U.S. until...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.
12) Hancock
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A superhero with total disregard for the damage he causes while saving people finds himself having his image changed by a public relations executive, in return for saving the executive's life.
Publisher
Lionsgate, Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.
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Description
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to Chicago, where she ensnares her next conquest, insurance man Mike Swale (Peter Berg). After getting a job at his insurance company, Bridget convinces Mike to run a scam -- but things take a deadly turn when she...
15) Collateral
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. Together, Vincent and Max find themselves in a non-stop race against time. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive....
16) Mile 22
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country.
Strong violence and language throughout.
17) Lions for lambs
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2008]
Description
Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear for these two students trapped behind enemy lines. They...
18) A Midnight Clear
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Description
In the midst of WW2 US GIs hold an isolated cabin in the Ardennes against a handful of Germans cut off from their main force. Combat-weary and short of rations, both sides are determined to survive.
19) Fire in the sky
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004
Description
In 1975, logger Travis Walton and his co-workers discovered a hovering UFO. Walton's pals fled, but Walton was not so fortunate. Whisked aboard the strange aircraft, he was subjected to a painful, unearthly medical study.
20) Aspen Extreme
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Description
In this heart-pounding action-adventure, two buddies abandon their blue-collar world to become ski instructors in glamorous Aspen, Colorado. There they discover the electrifying playground of the rich and famous—experiencing firsthand extreme skiing, wealth and seduction. Surrounded by temptation, and Aspen's alluring lifestyle, their friendship faces the ultimate test as they struggle to keep sight of the things that really matter. Featuring some...