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Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Only 30 years after gaining independence, the upstart country of the United States found itself once again battling Great Britain. Pitted against the world's most powerful nation, victory seemed unlikely. But Andrew Jackson's brilliant leadership, a lone sniper, and one of the most lopsided victories in military history turned the tide of the war.
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Description
A dramatization by Shakespeare of King Henry VI's early days as king and the beginning of the long civil wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster. In the war with France, England is being driven off French soil. True to the popular view of the time, the French heroine Joan of Arc is characterized as a "minister of hell" and a wanton.
6) Rebirth
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This videodisc follows the nearly ten-year transformation of five people whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001 and simultaneously tracks via time lapse photography the evolution of the space where the Twin Towers once rose. A moving portrait of how trauma and grief metamorphose into hope and rebuilding as the human spirit transcends the unthinkable over time.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In June 1940, Nazi Germany, having swept victoriously across Western Europe, was poised for an invasion of England. To prepare for the invasion, they planned a bombing campaign to bring England to its knees. Prime Minister Winston Churchill addressed Parliament and declared "I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin, and begin it did, with the Luftwaffe launching the most deadly and sustained aerial bombardment in the history of warfare....
11) Mary Shelley
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the life of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, and her love affair with poet, Percy Shelley.
13) Andrei Rublev
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Russian
Description
Andreĭ Rublev, a monk in fifteenth-century Russia, takes a vow of silence after witnessing the repressive society around him.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the early '70s, the radically enraged, bomb-planting fringe group call Weathermen had the distinction of being as alienated from the anti-war counterculture as the counterculture movement was from the rest of America. The group planned to blow up an empty building, but on March 6, 1970, an explosive accidentally went off in the New York Greenwich Village area, killing three of its own members and turning the rest of its members into outlaws on...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1904 Morocco, European powers desire a foothold in the Arab world -- and [desert chieftain] Raisuli is determined to stir up tribal fury against them. So he kidnaps an American widow ... and her children, igniting a chain of events that include President Theodore Roosevelt ... wielding the big stick of foreign policy"--Container.
16) Cry havoc
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The priorities are clear for Army nurses on Bataan Peninsula in 1942. Take your quinine, malaria is rampant. Make do, supplies will not arrive. Stay strong, despite the overwhelming odds. The nation was shaken by the plight of U.S. and Filipino forces in the early days of America's World War II involvement, a tale of courage and camaraderie.
The priorities are clear for Army nurses on Bataan Peninsula in 1942. Take your quinine, malaria is rampant....
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A breathtaking new documentary from the incomparable Werner Herzog, follows an exclusive expedition into the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France, home to the most ancient visual art known to have been created by man. An unforgettable cinematic experience that provides an unique glimpse of pristine artwork dating back to human hands over 30,000 years ago, almost twice as old as any previous discovery.
18) Quills
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer.
Publisher
Sierra State Parks Foundation
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Explore the rich history of the Tahoe area in a wonderful visual adventure. The Story of Tahoe Part One begins in 1844, when a lost, starving expedition discovers the native Washoe people's most precious jewel: Lake Tahoe. From there, logging industry booms at Tahoe, tourism flourishes with the railroad industry, and historic estates are built all around the lake. Part II picks up again at the turn of the century. The 1900s find Tahoe ravaged by...
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