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(0)Edward Asner
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It is Christmas Eve and the Silberhaus children are excited for the festivities to begin. Marie and Fritz are playing in the children's room when their godfather Drosselmayer arrives and presents them with an early Christmas gift, a Nutcracker. Marie witnesses a great battle between a vast army of toy soldiers led by the Nutcracker against a terrible platoon of mice commanded by the Mouse King.
2) Up
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
3) Elf
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Four sixth-graders venture back in time and meet Martin Luther King, Jr., as a boy and learn about the struggle for civil rights and about King's place in that historic fight.
Authentic historical footage is blended with colorful animations as students learn about the civil rights leader who challenged all Americans to turn his dream of freedom into reality.
5) Roots
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, that follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War where Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
6) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.