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Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1248 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression and a fledgling writer whose observations are filled with the growing-up lessons and love he receives from his family.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1237 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Television series about the Walton family living on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. This season is a big year for welcomes-- welcome back to John-Boy, visiting from New York, and to Grandma, finally home from the hospital. And welcome to the family for Mary Ellen and Curt's baby boy, John Curtis. But all that joy is set against the tragedy of events in the outside world. As the fall of 1939 turns into the spring of 1940,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 852
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 insert.
Description
"Ousmane Sembène ... made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot--about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally--into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
In this real-life story, Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to bring love and music to the home of Captain von Trapp and his seven children.
Pub. Date
©2003.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscS (219 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain leaves behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Native Virginian Gen. Robert E. Lee is forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised, and leads the Confederate army. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson -- a man of great religious faith -- believes in a higher authority leading him and his men to certain,...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (810 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the stunning vistas of the Rocky Mountains, Heartland follows teenage horse whisperer Amy through the trials and triumphs of life on a family-owned horse ranch. Includes all 18 episodes of Season 3.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (1148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Television series about the Walton family living on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In this season, the Waltons plunge into the chaos and heroism of World War II. John-Boy reports from London for "Stars and Stripes," Mary Ellen nurses the war wounded, Jason, Ben and even Jim-Bob debate joining up, and John and Olivia expand their lumber business to aid in the war effort. But the personal events are almost as dramatic: still...
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