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Publisher
Onyx Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
This powerful documentary exposes the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. From the territorial expansionist policies that decimated the young economies of Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, to the covert operations that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, Harvest of Empire provides an unflinching look...
2) Two rivers
Publisher
Greenleaf Street Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Documentary about a group of whites and Native Americans in the Northwest that began meeting together to discover why relationships between these two groups were unknown outside of courtrooms. Looks at the radical differences between the two cultures and how Indian schools have affected Native families.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
It reveals the historical premises of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, its current political backstage and its dangerous potential for the world. The speakers of the highest rank, president of Russia Vladimir Putin and ex-president of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych, interviewed by the filmmaker Oliver Stone, share their thoughts about the reasons of the conflict and ways to solve it.
5) 37 days
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
This three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 to Britain's declaration of war on Germany 37 days later. This tense and gripping mini-series set amongst the corridors of power in Whitehall and Berlin tracks the unfolding crisis through the eyes of leading politicians and civil servants struggling to prevent the world's first global...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c1974
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. Looks at the tension and decision making process President Kennedy and his staff endured trying to make a firm point about Cuba while keeping the US out of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about the Holocaust to facing it head on. Unexpectedly, a nuanced...
Publisher
[Distributed by] WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After 300 years of relative isolation, China is reaching out to the rest of the world looking for resources, food, friends, and safe places to invest its new fortune. Follow this still-unexplored story of the stunning global transformation taking place.
10) Do you believe?
Publisher
Pure Flix
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A dozen souls, all moving in different directions, all longing for something more. As their lives unexpectedly intersect, they each are about to discover there is power in the Cross of Christ, even if they don't yet believe it. From the creators of God's Not Dead comes this stirring new film.
Publisher
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In "Staring Genocide in the Face," Jerry Fowler, Director of the Committee on Conscience, relates stories told by Darfurian refugees in Chad. In "Darfur Eyewitness," former United States Marine Brian Steidle describes what he saw while in Darfur with the African Union Monitoring Force.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1997, actor Morgan Freeman, a resident of the small town of Charleston, Miss., offered to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School under one condition: the prom must be racially integrated. His offer was ignored. In 2008 he offered again, and the offer was accepted, changing the tradition of two separate proms for blacks and whites that had endured since the high school was integrated in 1970. Shows the problems and lessons learned as...
13) Straight A's
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Haunted by his mother's ghost, a former drug addict returns to his hometown seeking redemption from his family. His return is not as he expected, as his true love has become his sister-in-law.
14) The vicious kind
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Caleb tries to convince his brother Peter that his new girlfriend, who he brings home for the holidays, isn't the right girl for him, only to fall for her himself.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The French still call it "our Pearl Harbor", the tragic destruction of the French navy in 1940, by the British, to prevent it from falling into German hands. The dark story of Churchill's decision to sink the fleet, and with it, the lives of 1,300 French sailors, to prevent a German invasion continues to echo down the hall of military history. Was it a turning point in World War II, a terrible betrayal of one ally by another, or perhaps both?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed four-part series takes an in-depth look at World War II using references such as leading historians, Eastern film archives, and both Soviet and German participants, and gives a new perspective on the war that changed the world.
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Studies the controversial conflict, also known as "Mr. Polk's War," from both sides, exploring why it began, how it was fought, and why it ended in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexican and American historians unravel the many conflicting stories about the struggle, which features such figures as future president Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee. DVD format.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Publisher
Abc Studios
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
Over twenty years ago, Hamptons' wealthiest elite destroyed a young girl's life when they framed and murdered her father. Fueled by this betrayal, Emily Thorne came back and began to exact revenge on those who wronged her. This season, the stakes are higher than ever and may end up costing her everything, including her life.
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