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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.--...
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel."--
3) All is lost
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the...
4) All is lost
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.--...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by a true story, follow the British Royal Navy's perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, it highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with...
9) Lovewrecked
Publisher
Media 8 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny Taylor is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the time of being alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they are a stone's throw away from their resort.
10) The fog
Language
English
Description
The story of revenge by the demonic victims of a century-old shipwreck who stalk their victims in the fog.
Publisher
East West Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Hustling : A made-for-television film about a New York reporter (Lee Remick) who investigates the dangerous world of prostitution and becomes friends with a tough, abused hooker (Jill Clayburgh) --Blockbuster website.
Black water gold : A scuba bum joins a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian in a race to reach a treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon, ahead of a well-armed dilettante and his associates.
13) Whisky galore!
Publisher
Studio Canal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When an English ship carrying 50,000 cases of whiskey wrecks off the coast of a tiny Scottish island that has ran out of "the water of life"', Captain Waggett vows to defend the vessel against any looting efforts.
14) The blue lagoon
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A small boy and girl and the ship's cook survive a shipwreck and wash up on a tropical island. When the cook dies, the children are left on their own to survive and grow to adulthood.
15) Whiskey galore
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The film tells Joseph Conrad's story of Russian emigres and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
Series
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Swedish
Description
"An abandoned tanker ship crashes into the Oresund bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Onboard are five Swedish and Danish youths, chained below deck, unconscious. Investigating the incident is Scandinavia's oddest couple: Swedish detective Saga Noren, hampered by primitive social skills, and Martin Rohde from Denmark, still reeling from the death of his son. Theirs is a friendship from having been through hell together on the job."...
Series
Criterion collection ; 46
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all-- man.
19) Tempest
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Comedy loosely based on Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" has a New York City architect who tries to solve his midlife crisis by moving to a Greek island with his teenage daughter.
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Made for each other (1939, 92 min.): John Mason's life is going great. He just met and married his beautiful wife, Jane, and he's moving right up the ladder at his New York law firm. What could spoil this wonderful turn of events? They quickly discover that life does not always go as planned during their first year of marriage.
Black water gold (1970, 73 min.): When a sunken Spanish galleon is discovered at the bottom of the ocean, the race to recover...
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