Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Diana Apcar, consul to Japan from Armenia, was an idealistic Armenian woman living in Yokohama at a time when women and politics rarely coexisted. For years she tried to attract attention to the plight of the Armenians perishing under Ottoman rule, writing constantly. Her books, articles, and letters to world leaders show her deep insight into world politics, blaming the European Powers for setting the framework to allow the Armenian Genocide and...
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, evens as she seeks to win the heart of the king.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the explosive, war-torn backdrop of 1930s Ukraine, this action-filled epic follows a young artist as he battles famine, imprisonment, and torture to save his childhood love and free his country.
5) Hotel Rwanda
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
6) Galaxy Quest
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The unemployed actors of the Galaxy Quest television series are reduced to convention appearances and store openings. But when a distressed interstellar cadre of benevolent aliens beam Jason Nesmith and his crew of has-beens onto their ship, they have the misguided hope that these 'historical documents' can defeat a genocidal space warlord.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request