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Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise of the porn industry that began in New York City in 1971-72, driven by the gradual legalization of porn and a politically motivated effort to 'clean up' Times Square. Over the course of eight episodes, viewers will get an up-close look at a gritty world of sex, crime, high times and sudden violence, as the porn business begins its climb to legitimacy, cultural permanence, and billion-dollar profitability.
2) 1964
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammed Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
UK edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (536 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrayal of the prostitution business in New York in the 1970s. The story follows characters that are forced to venture toward relatively safer and more discreet forms of the same work.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (482 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1985 and the party of the '70s is slowing down. 42nd Street has deteriorated into a world of crime, seedy video stores, and peep shows; VHS has overtaken film as porn's primary medium, and the AIDS epidemic has had a devastating impact. Welcome to the third and final season of the gritty HBO series that follows the interconnected lives of barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, the police, mobsters, and adult film actors and producers in Times Square.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (435 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson, is tasked by the army to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, starts working for the British RAF on urgently developing the jet engine. With the background of the emerging Cold War, it's crucial for British national security that cutting-edge technology is made available to the armed forces as quickly as possible.
7) Sealab
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor. The video tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the shocking story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; wealthy college students who had planned to abduct and kill a child at random just to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (381 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now established as a private detective, Peregrine works out of the Melbourne Adventuress Club with assistance from tough former spy Birdie Birnside and brilliant biologist Violetta Fellini. With her partner in crime-solving, Detective James Steed, Peregrine contends with a double homicide after a swingers party, the murder of a flight attendant trainee, a human death at a dog show, a brawl between rockers and mods, and more. But her budding romance...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (325 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells; catch up with their lives on the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Most of the family struggles with individual business ventures from running a guest house, attempting to get published, starting a beauty salon, and opening a zoo.
12) Generation kill
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
A "fact-based dramatization" based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion.
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