Samuel L. Jackson
1) John Henry
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Based on the famous African American folk ballad "John Henry, " this story tells of the legendary contest to the death between a spirited man with a hammer and a steam drill to build a tunnel through the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of America's greatest original art form. Ken Burns' 10-part documentary series opens at the dawn of the 20th century, incorporating American culture and historical events that interact directly with the music. From the 1890s through the ferment of the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age, to the Great Depression, New Deal, Second World War, and beyond, JAZZ paints an astounding portrait of a nation and its improvisational core of music....
3) Freedomland
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A highly charged and gritty mystery of a car hijacking, a missing child and a neighborhood torn asunder, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore. Based on the novel by Richard Price.
4) Trees Lounge
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A man drifting through time desperately searches for some meaning to his life.
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the follow-up to the blockbuster action-adventure xXx, NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson), fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent Darius Stone (Ice Cube), also code-named "XXX," must track a dangerous military splinter group that is conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government in the nation's capital.
7) White Sands
Publisher
Relativity Media
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
8) 187
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
When a student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, he feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but, soon after, Trevor is stabbed by the same student. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as the last one, driving...
9) xXx
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Vin Diesel reunites with the director (Rob Cohen) to star as Xander "xXx" Cage, the notorious underground thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) forces xXx to cooperate with the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring and avoid going to prison.
10) The Spirit
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the vein of Batman Begins and Sin City, THE SPIRIT takes us on a sinister, gut-wrenching ride with a hero who is born, murdered, and born again.
11) Shaft
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Who delivers ten times out of ten? Samuel L. Jackson is SHAFT, the man and the movie. John Singleton ("Boys 'n' the Hood") directs this gritty action-packed thriller. With his uncle John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, reprising his original role) as his mentor, it's no surprise that today's Shaft is the coolest dude and the hottest action around. To stop a racist killer (Christian Bale), Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness (Toni Collette) that...
12) The Kill Room
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A hitman, his boss, an art dealer, and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one that forces her to play the art world against the underworld.