Warner Home Video
1) Gettysburg
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Civil War drama depicting the events and personal struggles of the Union and Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
2) The Mission
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Epic adventure, set in the Amazon, about a Spanish Jesuit priest and a military man who unite to protect an Indian tribe from pro-slavery Portugal, also expanding its colonial empire to 18th century Brazil.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s.
Jeremiah Johnson is a man who turns his back on humanity and learns a new code of survival in a brutal land of isolated mountains and hostile Indians.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
Publisher
BBC America
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Art historian Sir Kenneth Clark presents an epic examination of Western European culture, defining what he considers to be the crucial phases of its development. This lavish series was hailed as a masterpiece when it was broadcast in 1969.
Disc One: Program 1: "Skin of our Teeth" looks at the Dark Ages; the six-hundred years following the fall of the Roman Empire. / Program 2: "Great Thaw" traces the re-awakening of European civilization in the...
11) Gran Torino
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, is pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's prize...
12) Wyatt Earp
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The biography of the legendary law man, Wyatt Earp, including the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral.
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Strange Days on Planet Earth explores the ways in which human life has affected the planet and how globally connected problems are personally relevant and urgent. It brings into focus the realization that the decisions we make today will affect all life on Earth for years to come.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"The Molly Maguires was a secret society of militant coal miners who battled their exploitation by mine owners with violence, intimidation... and sometimes murder. Based on actual events, this gripping story is a sympathetic and accurate account of the Irish-American miners' struggle. Richard Harris (Galdiator, Camelot) plays a detective on undercover assignment for the owners, fighting to win the workers, trust, and finally, fighting his own conscience....
15) The Kennedys
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
"The Kennedy explores the building of the Kennedy legend, a story in part created and then brilliantly promoted by the family itself, a story whose afterglow still captures the American imagination. Featuring extensive interviews with family members, friends and first-hand witnesses to the many chapters of the Kennedy saga, and using a wealth of still photographs and archival footage ..."--Container box.
16) 500 nations
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uses firsthand accounts, location filming, and virtual-reality re-creations to trace the history of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabitated North America for over 15,000 years, discussing their centuries-long struggle to survive.
19) Malcolm X
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
20) Adam's rib
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
1949.
Language
English
Description
Hepburn and Tracy are married lawyers who are on the opposite sides in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. The tension drives them apart in their personal life as well, but true love conquers all.