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1) Churchill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive look at the Churchill legend, revealing the complexity of the real man who was soldier, adventurer, politician, author and arguably the greatest Englishman of the 20th century. Features never-before-seen family photographs and film.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occurring while the King is being treated for an unknown mental illness.
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Winston Churchill's quest for his inner self took two forms: a constant thirst for exotic travel and a passion for the exuberance of painting and the beauty of words. His granddaughter, Celia Sandys, traveled extensively with Churchill towards the end of his life. Now, in this intimate portrait, she follows in her grandfather's footsteps, traveling to France, Cuba, South Africa, the United States, Egypt and Morocco to discover the real man behind...
4) Patton
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a spellbound public engrossed in the drama. In the end, his death would launch one of the greatest myths in American history. Part of the Wild West collection.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Soon after England declared war on Germany in 1939, Lancashire housewife Nella Last began writing a diary as part of a public project. She was 49 and fearful that she wouldn't be able to cope with her son's enlistment and life alone with her domineering husband. Recounts her experience of wartime privations, but also her dawning sense of independence. Amid the hardships of food rations and air raids, Nella's volunteer work for the war effort fills...
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
War game: A dramatization of the possible effects of nuclear warfare on Great Britain. Explores the physical damage effects, the psychological effects on the survivors, the societal logic for the existence of nuclear arms, and the attempts to understand how the balance of power keeps atomic weapons in check.
Culloden: In 1746 Scots fighting for Bonnie Prince Charlie lose to English forces in Scotland at the brutal battle of Culloden.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Ladens, as well as how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush...
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
2016, 1976.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (54 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film is a portrait of Pulitzer Prize Winning American composer, George Crumb : His life, his art and connections between the two. Included in this film are performances of Crumb's "Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players, " samples of the rural gospel music which has influenced him, demonstrations by Crumb of the exotic instruments and unusual effects which figure in his compositions, and scenes from his home and university teaching environment....
11) 1940s house
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One modern family takes on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's home front in 1940s house, a re-creation of a World War II household. This time-travel experiment covers the period from the outbreak of war in 1939 to Victory Day in 1945, compressing the events of six wartime years into two months. Though the military threat is metaphorical, the privations are real and the pressures create tensions nonexistent in modern society.
Publisher
A&E Television Network
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (47 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Doug Scott, is acknowledged as one of the premier experts on Custer's Last Stand. Scott has always wanted to see this dark moment in American military history through the eyes of survivor Lieutenant Edward Godfrey. His knowledge would be key to finally bringing the entire story to light with a team of Hollywood producers. It was up to the production team to make his vision a reality. Scott wrangles the team to Hardin, Montana to finally re-create...
14) Brass target
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suspense thriller about a conspiracy linking the theft of $250 million in Nazi gold with the death of General George S. Patton.
15) Soros
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billionaire activist George Soros is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. He is maligned by ideologues on both the left and the right for daring to tackle the world's problems. With unprecedented access to the man and his inner circle, director Jesse Dylan follows Soros and pulls back the curtain on his personal history, private wealth, and public activism.
Publisher
Universal Music Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 227 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Using unseen photos and footage, ... director Martin Scorsese traces the life of George Harrison in a personal film, weaving together performance footage, home movies, rare archival materials and interviews with his family and friends"--Container.
Publisher
Clearvue & SVE
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes two episodes from the animated series The Adventures of Curious George : "Curious George comes to America" and "Curious George goes to the hospital." In "Curious George comes to America, " viewers will join the Man with the Yellow Hat as he meets George in the jungle and decides to bring him to the city. George doesn't mean any harm, but his shipboard antics soon get him into trouble -- BIG trouble. And, in "Curious George goes to the hospital,...
Series
George Smiley novels volume 5
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 108 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after the Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the 'Circus' without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground.
19) Balanchine
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
George Balanchine is regarded as the "father of American ballet". Through rare archival audio and video footage, interviews, film, and photographs, this program traces Balanchine's life from his youth, through his work for Hollywood and Broadway, to his creation of the New York City Ballet. Features selections from many of his ballets, including Chaconne, Agon, Symphony in C, Apollo, A midsummer night's dream, and Western symphony.
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