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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 340 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1927 and Bella Ainsworth is still devoting her considerable energies to the Hotel Portofino, which has overcome its early troubles and is starting to prosper.
Publisher
Lions Gate Television
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (622 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the history of science; the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It follows the project's brilliant but flawed scientists and their families as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
3) Baseball
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
11 DVDs (approximately 23 hr.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the history of the sport with major topics including Afro-American players, player/team owner relations and the resilience of the game.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars, celebrities, and a dynamic cast of people who shaped these years, Gates travels from the victories of the civil rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state of black America, and our nation as a whole.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (483 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After five years time. The civil war is over, and a cultural revolution has changed the world for better or worse, ushering in a new age of superheroes and supervillains.
7) Casa Susanna
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place for them to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed of dressing as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression. Told through the memories of those whose visits...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 310 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The final season continues the story of high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, and her friend, Georgiana Lambe. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else - romance - await them?
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells the story of his life to renown journalist Daniel Molloy. Beginning in 1910 New Orleans, Louis forms a vampire family with the vampire Lestat, complete with teen fledgling, Claudia.
Publisher
Theodora Films Limited & Moonage Pictures Limited
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in Europe before World War II, the story follows the adventures of charismatic, fearless Linda Radlett and her best friend/cousin Fanny Logan. Consumed by a desire for love and marriage, each seeks out the ideal husband.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (542 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After failing to have his marriage to Katherine annulled, Henry appoints himself the head of the Church of England. Anne Boleyn insists that Henry remove the Queen from the picture. A royal visit to France finally prompts Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry. After failed attempts to have his marriage annulled, Henry's patience finally wears out and he marries Anne in secret. The king and new queen are disappointed that their first child...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 310 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Will's life has changed for the better. He is happily married to the brilliant Bonnie and due to become a father, but his world is about to be rocked by a terrible accident. He's always preached the word of a compassionate God, but how can he do that now?
17) Tom Jones
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as a baby, rescued and adopted by a country gentleman, Tom Jones grows up kind, handsome, free-spirited, and very popular with the ladies. But he cannot escape his lowly birth. When he falls in love with the bright, beautiful heiress Sophia Western, and she falls in love with him, their families unite against the match. They both end up in London, facing the wiles and whims of Sophia's aunt, the beguiling but dangerous Lady Bellaston, who...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (appoximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1900s Vienna is a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Brilliant Dr. Max Liebermann is a student of Sigmund Freud, and together with Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, they investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders.
20) Roots
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
30th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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