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Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ralph and Penelope are faced with a new challenge when they begin the search for a spare part to fix a beloved videogame: how to navigate the internet. When trying to fix Sugar Rush the pair become engrossed in the World Wide Web after a router is plugged into the local arcade space, forcing them to find a wheel to replace the router with and get the arcade up and running again. Traversing through this new, technological landscape won't be easy, with...
2) Wargames
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Young electronics wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For years, there has been widespread speculation, but very little consensus, about the relationship between violent video games and violence in the real world. Joystick Warriors provides the clearest account yet of the latest research on this issue. Drawing on the insights of media scholars, military analysts, combat veterans, and gamers themselves, the film trains its sights on the wildly popular genre of first-person shooter games, exploring how...
4) GTFO
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny. Although half of all gamers are women, females are disproportionately subject to harassment and abuse from other gamers, and are massively under-represented in the video game design world. Through interviews with video game developers, journalists, and academics, GTFO...
6) Free guy
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Given the wild popularity of violent video games, it has never been more urgent to encourage dialogue about how virtual killing might shape attitudes about real-life violence. Game Over examines the nature and consequences of simulated violence, and encourages high school and college students to think critically about how gender and race are depicted in the video and computer games they play. It is sure to spark lively debate about the complex and...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the gang spread across the country (and beyond) at college, Spencer is back to feeling out of place, even when he returns home over winter break. Desperate to escape his grandfather who is sharing his room, and to feel confident again, he attempts to fix the broken Jumanji video game, giving his friends no choice but to level up and return to rescue him.
9) Jumanji
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its unimaginable powers until he is magically transported into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game's spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan tries to outwit the game's powerful forces.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Follow four Scrabble game fanatics as they advance to the North American Championship. The film is a thoroughly entertaining and hilarious look at a board game that's an occasional amusement for some - and a serious obsession (or disturbing addiction) for others.
11) Game night
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery.
13) Gamemaster
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
GAMEMASTER follows the trials and tribulations of designers as they create and publish board games. Conversations with industry legends like Klaus Teuber (Catan) help explore the cultural phenomenon of board gaming.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For generations, Monopoly has been America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and, for better or worse, the impulses that make our free-market society tick. An exhilarating game of no-holds-barred competition and brutal domination of opponents, it's a celebration of greed and accumulation of wealth with only one player standing at the end.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experience these masterpieces of storytelling. With revolutionary animation, unforgettable music and characters you love, these dazzling short films have changed the face of animation and entertainment and are sure to delight people of all ages.
16) Clue, the movie
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Language
English
Description
Who killed Mr. Boddy? Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with the gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler?
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When a group of rich 20-somethings get stuck at a remote family mansion during a hurricane, a party game ends with a dead body on the ground and fingers pointed everywhere. As they try to find the killer among them, fake friends and real enemies have to learn who to trust—and how to survive—in this fresh and funny Gen-Z meltdown.
18) Chevalier
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Greek
Description
In the middle of the Aegean Sea on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game to deem who among them is the overall 'best'. During this game, things will be compared, measured and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals, but at the end of the voyage, when the game is over, the winner will wear the victorious signet ring: the Chevalier.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on his family: Haji Omar, the patriarch; Anwar, the eldest, his father's favorite, a pastoralist and expert horseman; Jannat Gul, cultivator and ambitious rebel; and Ismail, the youngest, attending school with a view to a job as a government official.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing...
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