Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Apollo's Muse honors the rich history of photographic representations of the moon, from rarely seen early daguerreotypes to contemporary video art. Engaging and accessible, the book explores how photographers captured this celestial body-and how the images have in turn inspired artists, writers, and scientists. The book's wide-ranging focus includes extraordinary reproductions of the first...

An assembly of wildly wicked characters romp and rout their way through the most out-of-control bachelor party ever.

In the last great invasion of World War II, a squad of American soldiers embark on a special mission ... to find Private Ryan. Faced with impossible odds, surrounded by the brutalities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.

It tells the never-before-told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.

Collection includes three films directed by Clint Eastwood. American Sniper stars Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, a SEAL sniper who struggles with memories of war after returning home. Eastwood stars in Gran Torino as a Korean War vet who reluctantly tries to reform the boy who tried to steal his car, learning about himself along the way. Tom Hanks plays the title role in Sully, the pilot who glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson...

Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

Tells the dramatic story of the Apollo missions and their heroic astronauts. Go from President John F. Kennedy's historic speech to the manned space missions and through to the defining moment of the space program - putting a man on the moon. These are the stories of the men, women and children who lived, breathed and manufactured from the power of human will, one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind

In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....

Widower Otto cannot get over the death of his wife and keeps making clumsy attempts at suicide until he forms an unlikely friendship with a boisterous young family who has moved in next door.