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Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"A riveting adventure of how America was invented. 'America the story of us' focuses on the people, ideas and events that built our nation, covering 400 years of American history in the most extensive and in-depth television series ever produced by History. Sharing their thoughts on the building of America, and what it means to be an American, are a world-class group of individuals including Tom Brokaw, Michael Douglas, Meryl Streep, Buzz Aldrin,...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"A riveting adventure of how America was invented. 'America the story of us' focuses on the people, ideas and events that built our nation, covering 400 years of American history in the most extensive and in-depth television series ever produced by History. Sharing their thoughts on the building of America, and what it means to be an American, are a world-class group of individuals including Tom Brokaw, Michael Douglas, Meryl Streep, Buzz Aldrin,...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Multiple
Description
During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting; whereas women had to serve the Japanese policemen and their families by doing the household work and giving up their traditional weaving work. Above all, they were forbidden to tattoo their faces. And these tattoos were seen as the Seediq's traditional belief to transform themselves...
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A 7-Part Compelling Journey Through America's Greatest Saga! In 1860, the nation founded upon an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness had as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners and almost four million slaves. By denying these rights to more than twelve percent of its population, America would soon pay with the blood of a generation. ...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two make...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Few kings in English history deserve the title 'great' more than Alfred, King of Wessex. In a country devastated by Viking invasions, Alfred inflicted a major defeat upon the Norseman at Edington in 878 A.D. and set about conquering the Danelaw territory to secure the unity of England. A fine warrior and natural leader, he was also a lawmaker and a scholar. Includes location footage; re-creations and reconstructions; and commentary and analyses from...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Colonel Marlowe is in command of a motley assortment of 1200 Union volunteers whose task-- and apparent suicide mission-- is to infiltrate 300 miles of Southern territory and destroy the most strategic rail route in the Confederacy. Marlowe's life is complicated by his ferocious running feud with the company's surgeon, Major Kendall.
Publisher
Temple Hill Videos
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"The beautiful Cache Valley has always been a unique part of the West. Its many streams provided such lush summer growth that it was first called 'Willow Valley.' In this video discover its rich history from the Shoshone Indians and the Mountain Men, to the settling of the Latter Day Saint pioneers and their dedication to building the majestic Logan Temple."--Insert.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped on the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughtersb2s initials in the lunar dust. On now, over forty years later, is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love and loss. Cernans burning ambition carried him from a quiet Chicago suburb to the spectacular and hazardous environment of space and ultimately, to the moon.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Since the birth of their trademark toy in 1958, The LEGO Group has produced over 400 billion bricks. But more and more, LEGO bricks aren't just for kids, and some take them very seriously. Adult Fans of LEGO around the globe are unashamedly declaring their love of the brick, brick artists are creating stunning and surprising creations, and LEGO master builders are building human scale and larger structures. This documentary playfully delves into the...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam war stories: This grand scope project covers the war years of 1954 to 1975. In addition to the outstanding color action footage, this documentary includes eyewitness interviews ranging from accounts of policy makers in Washington to remembrances of grunts who were humping the boonies trying to survive a '365 and a wake up' for a trip home on the freedom bird. Brothers in Arms: The Screaming Eagle story as told by the veterans of the 101st...
74) Far and away
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1992
Edition
Widescreen ; Dual layer.
Language
English
Description
A poor but proud Irish tenant farmer accompanies the spoiled and headstrong daughter of a wealthy landlord to America in a quest for land.
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
In the New Mexico Territory in 1866, Jack Fowler, who survived the Civil War, barely escapes the drunken rage of a gun-toting idiot who mistakes him for the gunslinger Jack Cole. Compelled to defend himself, Fowler shoots the man dead. Now a posse lead by Lucas Moat searches for him to bring him to mistaken justice. Fowler, wounded, ends up at the homestead of Fiona, who just happens to be the gal friend of the local sheriff. It all comes to an head...
Publisher
Distributed by Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
American bullfighter: Chronicles the evolution of rodeo clowns into today's modern bullfighting athletes as they compete for the coveted title "World Champion Bullfighter", rodeo's newest prize money event.
American bullfighter II: Chronicles what it is like to be a freestyle rodeo bullfighter, shows five years of the wildest National Finals Bullfighting action, and goes behind the scenes at Rex Dunn's bullfighting "School of Champions."
78) Promontory
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Mormon settlement and railroad construction meet when the railroads meet at Promontory Point, Utah.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Single-sided.
Language
日本語
Description
Rurouni Kenshin Part III takes place after Kenshin's confrontation with Shishio ends in defeat. Kenshin Himura awakens at the home of his old Master. With his mind set on revenge, he trains day and night to learn the final technique of his deadly fighting style. While he builds up his strength, Shishio and his army attack the coastline and force the new government to name Kenshin a wanted man.
80) The journeyman
Publisher
Velocity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In the wild west at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their grandpa is gunned down in cold blood. The desperados kidnap the older boy while a priest takes in the younger one. Thirteen years later these two brothers will cross paths again as they both seek revenge, each in their own way.
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