Inundação (1977)
Sudden! Overpowering! Terrifying!
Gênero : Ação, Aventura, Drama, Thriller, Cinema TV
Runtime : 1H 37M
Director : Earl Bellamy
Sinopse
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
Launched in 1982 by three friends in a Houston diner, Compaq Computer set out to build a portable PC to take on IBM, the world’s most powerful tech company. Many had tried cloning the industry leader’s code, only to be trounced by IBM and its high-priced lawyers. Explore the remarkable David vs. Goliath story, and eventual demise, of Compaq, an unlikely upstart who altered the future of computing and helped shape the world as we know it today.
Mesopotamia was the site of the Sumerian civilisation, which flourished at the confluence of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. From 5000 to 2000 BC, the Sumerians flourished in a hostile environment by developing agriculture and irrigation and they opened up the trade routes of the ancient world. It was the Sumerians who invented writing and the wheel, and they first divided time into minutes and seconds. In the end however the Babylonian civilisation took the place of the Sumerians. However their heritage and myths live on in the Mediterranean and Western worlds to this day.
A recently engaged bride-to-be becomes determined to find her blood family before she marries. But when she meets her unusual kin in the deep woods of Florida, she begins reliving horrifying suppressed memories that lead her to believe her newfound relatives may be hiding some dark secrets, and she starts to discover horrifying truths about her birth family.
Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.
Ao tentar um resgate no Oceano Antártico, um quebragelo russo colide com um iceberg gigantesco. O navio fica encalhado nos gelos da Antártica e seu capitão precisa controlar seus homens.
One dark and stormy night, Rupert is called on by a mysterious stranger who gives him a ship in a bottle...with a tiny living man onboard! He frees the man, who turns out to be the evil warlock, Mordo, who kidnaps Amelia and takes her back in time to 1640. Rupert calls on Miss Switch for help in this new adventure.
When Rupert and his friend Amelia find the new substitute teacher doing odd things, they discover that she is actually a witch with a magical talking cat who sought them out in order to stop an evil coven of witches from destroying her.
A look back at the history of major league baseball in Houston, starting with its humble beginnings at Colt .45 stadium, to the massive grandeur of the Astrodome and the birth of the Astros. Enjoy many of the great moments in Houston's baseball history including Ken Johnson's no-hitter, which he lost, Don Wilson's spectacular performances on the mound, and Nolan Ryan's triumph in overtaking Walter Johnson's strikeout record, just to name a few. Relive the story of the Astros as told by the stars who experienced it: like Rusty Staub, Joe Morgan and Mike Scott. From an expansion team in 1962 to today's National League Western Division Champions, "A Silver Odyssey" captures a quarter-century of history, humor and excitement.
Ever since the Astrodome's grand opening night on April 9, 1965, when the Astros hosted the legendary Mickey Mantle and the New York Yankees in an exhibition game, baseball under glass has produced exciting times and great memories. The Astrodome revolutionized baseball and the game hasn't been the same since. Take a fun look back at the early years. Relive the excitement of the 1980 and '86 playoff series, then review the 1989 season as the Astros' young guns came of age, ready for the 1990s. All of these moments and more are captured in this video tribute to the Astros and their 25 years in the "Eight Wonder of the World." Written and produced by Houston sports journalist and Astros broadcaster Bruce Gietzen.
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.
Palco atingido, Lydia Weston deixa sua pequena cidade no Texas e vai para a Broadway. Deixado para trás está seu namorado Peter. Lydia envia cartas e recortes de notícias de volta para casa dizendo a todos que ela agora é uma grande estrela. Peter logo vai para Nova York para surpreendê-la, mas em vez disso ele fica surpreso ao descobrir que Lydia não tem emprego e está falida. A dupla logo se envolve com alguns produtores falsos que enganam Peter para que apoie sua peça com Lydia na liderança.
Steve Guttenberg repete seu papel como Colton West na sequencia de Lavalântula. Mais uma vez, gigantescas aranhas que vomitam lava estão soltas, desta vez na Flórida, onde a enteada de Colton esta passando suas férias escolares. Somente Colton e um grupo de companheiros, ex-co-estrelas da Academia de Polícia de Guttenberg (Michael Winslow e Marion Ramsey) podem detê-los. Mas será que eles serão capazes de derrotar a maior lavalântula de todas – a Gargantulântula?
A group of bored college students unleash a murderous demon while playing a dice game made from human knucklebones.
Jung-Su é um vendedor de carros. Certo dia, ele sai de seu trabalho e vai o mais rápido possível para casa, tentando chegar a tempo de comemorar seu aniversário com sua família. No entanto, algo bizarro e inesperado impede a conclusão da jornada de Jung-Su: um túnel despenca, deixando o homem preso nos escombros.
Um homem arrisca a própria vida para salvar seu país de um desastre iminente quando um terremoto atinge um vilarejo onde existe uma usina nuclear.
Ladrões planejam roubar 600 milhões de dólares do Tesouro Americano. No mesmo dia do assalto, um furacão de categoria máxima está previsto chegar à cidade. A população deixa o local, restando apenas um meteorologista, um agente do Tesouro Americano e um ex- fuzileiro naval. Juntos, eles precisam não apenas sobreviver a maior das tempestades, mas também impedir o roubo do século.
In Los Angeles, the Earth shakes, people panic, buildings crumble and fold. But when a special OPS crew flies in to view the damage, it's as if nothing has happened. Buildings still stand, the ground is whole...but dead bodies litter the streets. Welcome to MIND BLOWN - a secret government program in psychotronic warfare that goes terribly wrong. Now the DOD must cover it up and terminate all involved. Fleeing for his life, Noah West knows he must uncover who has stolen the technology with plans on using it to bring America to its knees. When the disasters start for real, the darker secret of the experiment begins to unravel.
A compassionate Hollywood screenwriter attempts to talk a troubled actress out of taking her own life.
Um grupo de executivos faz uma viagem e descobre que a região está repleta de tubarões vorazes tentando construir uma barragem com partes de corpos humanos. Agora, terão que lutar para escapar deles e sobreviver.