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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boris Grushenko, a timid soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, becomes entangled in a plot to assassinate Napoleon and after a hilarious confrontation with the Angel of Death finds himself facing a firing squad.
7) Gunpowder
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Activist Guy Fawkes and a group of disgruntled, persecuted provincial Catholics conspire to work together to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early seventeenth century.
8) Love Field
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lurene Hallett, a Dallas housewife obsessed with the lives of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, sets out by bus to attend the funeral of the president. Along the way she befriends an African American man and his daughter. Lurene's well intentioned meddling causes the three to flee the police and her husband on their way to Washington.
9) Winter kills
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The son of a world famous tycoon and half-brother of an assassinated U.S. president uncovers a conspiracy behind the assassination 19 years later.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865"--Internet Movie Database.
11) Anthropoid
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the code name for the secret Czechoslovakian mission to assassinate Nazi SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution to the Jewish question, was the Reich's third in command and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
12) The interpreter
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In one of the hidden corridors of power at UN headquarters, translator Silvia Broome overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller investigates her claim, is she a victim or a suspect?
13) Hangmen also die
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pursued by the Germans after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Svoboda enlists the aid of a young woman who is oblivious to the lethal crosscurrents that surround her in Czechoslovakia. As she learns more about the mysterious doctor, she grows aware of the involvement of her father and fiance in the resistance, and soon finds herself entangled in the revolution's secret operations.
14) The conspirator
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Second-disc collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President and others. Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, war hero Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy) reluctantly agrees to defend the lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), before a military tribunal. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save...
15) Julius Caesar
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.
16) The matador
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julian Noble is an unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable freelance assassin, who happens to encounter desperate businessman Danny Wright in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a "facilitator of fatalities, " and his wife becomes equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his touch as a reliable hit-man, Julian needs Danny's help with...
17) Marat/Sade
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The infamous Marquis de Sade, confined to an asylum, directs the other inmates in a re-enactment of the bloody assassination of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.
18) The tall target
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Former police officer John Kennedy doesn't have a ticket, but he's determined to stay aboard the overnight train rolling from New York to Washington, D.C. He's convinced that someone or someones among the passengers intends to kill newly elected President Abraham Lincoln when the train stops in Baltimore. The true life Baltimore Plot provides the inspiration for this Hollywood thriller"--Container.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.
20) The interview
Publisher
[Sony Pictures Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two amateur TV hosts land an interview with the North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.
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