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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain-- a prized local landmark-- to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On September 1, 1939, a German battleship fired on the Polish garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula. Over the next seven days, fewer than two hundred soldiers battle against the relentless onslaught. Two Polish commanders struggle with the decision to continue fighting or surrender under overwhelming odds.
24) Beanpole
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (293 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Travel in luxury and style to such destinations as Mexico, Cuba, Hawaii, South America, England, Norway, Ireland, and France. Enjoy the sights and discover the diverse cultures of these foreign lands. Includes a brief history of Pan Am and World War II.
26) Shoah
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (566 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (60 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
27) She said
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Captures the dramatic, lust-filled saga of King Charles II, from his youthful exile in the Netherlands to his numerous sexual escapades during his tumultuous 25-year reign to his secret deathbed conversion to Catholicism.
30) Sommersby
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Jack Sommersby returns home to the South after the Civil War, he is not the man anyone remembers, including his wife. The real test of their newfound love and his identity comes when he stands trial for his life.
31) Kagemusha
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (45 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In 16th century feudal Japan, a thief is saved from execution to train as a double for one of the warlords, Shingen. Three warlords, Shingen, Nobunaga, and Ieyasu, battle for total power over Japan. When Shingen receives a mortal wound, the double must take his place to hold the Takeda clan together.
32) Silent night
Pub. Date
[2014].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. runtime 1 hr. 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Christmas Eve, 1944. A German mother and her son seek refuge in a hunting cabin during World War II. When the cabin is invaded by three American soldiers and three German soldiers, she convinces them to keep the peace on Christmas and share dinner.
33) Indian horse
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better opportunities, but no matter how far Saul goes, the ghosts...
34) Young Winston
Pub. Date
2008?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
DVD-R. Based on My early life, by Winston Churchill, the film covers his school days up to the death of his father. The second half covers his military career in India and the Sudan, where he takes part in the cavalry charge at Omdurman; his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War; and his election to Parliament at age 26.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Teenaged Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking, leads a carefree life in rural Sweden. Eager to break free from her conservative upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she leaves home to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her imagination and gift...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine...
39) Lady Jane
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1553, England's idle rich were anything but idle. With the blessing of the Royal family, they plundered of the riches of the church, stole the finest farmlands, and generally took all the best things the country had to offer. A cousin to the infamous Henry VIII, Lady Jane Grey disapproved of the way her fellow nobles behaved, and disagreed with their religious beliefs. But as a sheltered 16-year-old, there wasn't much she could do about it. Then,...
40) Cleopatra
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (248 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this epic-spectacle; its opulence and sweeping grandeur have never been more glorious. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Cleopatra, the glamorous and cunning queen of Egypt. To secure her hold on power, she seduces the rulers of Rome, only to meet her match in Marc Antony, played by Richard Burton. Their passionate romance could decide the fate of the world's greatest empires.
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