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Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Amid national chaos and fear for his life, tyrannical King Gwanghae orders his trusted counselor to find a royal body double. He recruits a crude, working-class peasant, Ha-seon, a village performer who bears a startling resemblance to the ruler. When the king falls into a coma from poisoning, he is secreted away to recover and Ha-seon reluctantly assumes the throne, forced to pull off history's biggest masquerade.
2) Lola Montès
Pub. Date
c[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Depicts, through flashbacks, the life of a famous courtesan, recounted as part of a lavish circus act. The ringmaster introduces and displays Lola Montés who recalls her romances with Franz Liszt, a student, and Ludwig, King of Bavaria before she was reduced by scandal, poverty and ill fortune to her present life as a circus performer.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 257 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm).
Description
"Do you like history, perhaps investigating where your family came from or learning what challenges your ancestry met and where they called home? This course traces some of the wanderings of our wider family, the biosphere, from its first appearance on Earth around 4 billion years ago through to the present day. This journey has been a fantastic one, with many interesting twists and turns along the way, many high points and more than a few crises."--Page...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
7) Milk
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
His life changed history, his courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, becomes a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he is elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, are shot to death by former city supervisor,...
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (ca. 196 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
10) Philomena
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Judi Dench stars in the story of Philomena Lee, mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock and given up for adoption. Nearly 50 years later, Philomena meets Martin Sixsmith, a former BBC reporter looking for his next big story. Together, they embark on a journey to locate her long lost son. As the pieces of the puzzle come together, the unlikely travel companions form a comic and heartwarming friendship. Based on the 2009 investigative book by Martin...
12) Casanova
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The original unedited British version, this mini series alternates between the gripping love triangle involving the young Casanova and the swan song of the world's most notorious lothario.
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "In their relentless battle against Hitler, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were comrades ... or at least comrades-in-arms. Hollywood joined the fight with Mission to Moscow, based on Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' bestseller about his pre-World War II experiences in the Soviet Union. The film features Academy Award winner Walter Huston as Davies, plus accomplished actors playing the headline-dominating figures of Churchill, Stalin, von Ribbentrop,...
14) Richard III
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (18 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
Richard, Duke of Gloucester, through a set of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward.
15) Bright star
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
16) The invisibles
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin 'free of Jews' in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Rafle's gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight.
17) Django unchained
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (166 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Shultz.
18) The iron lady
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
19) Mansfield Park
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house.
20) My boy Jack
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the imminent war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in losing her only son to the war. How will the great writer,...
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