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Publisher
LaCahoots Productions
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In 1769, a Franciscan missionary named Junipero Serra was chosen to create a chain of Missions between San Diego Bay and San Francisco Bay. Orchards, vineyards, farming, and the biggest cities in California, all owe their genesis to the Mission system.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and colleague Inez Mulholland gives up...
4) Hamlet
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's classic drama exploring madness, guilt, justice and self-perception.
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
1947
Language
English
Description
Magazine writer Schuyler 'Phil' Green, a widower who has just arrived with his mother and young son in New York, is assigned the task of writing an expose of anti-Semitism. As he searches for a new angle on the topic, he decides to pass as a Jew for several months, which causes no end of trouble for his ailing mother and young son. This film puts the 'gentleman's agreement' among gentiles to discriminate against Jews directly in the spotlight.
7) Quinceanera
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
As Magdalena's (Emily Rios) 15th birthday approaches her working class family prepares for the all important "Quinceanera"--a lavish coming of age celebration. To help with expenses, Magdalena is forced to wear a hand me down party dress and abandon her dream of arariving in a Hummer limosine. When her father discovers she's pregnant and refuses to believe the incredible truth--she's actually still a virgin--Magdalena moves in with her elderly Uncle...
8) Music within
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Deafened by a bomb blast in Vietnam, Richard returns home and discovers his life's calling: helping others with disabilities, including his fellow veterans. Along with his best friend Art, a wheelchair-bound rebel with a wicked wit, Richard fights for the rights of those whose voices can't always be heard. Based on the incredible true-life story of Richard Pimentel.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008].
Language
Español
Description
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. In Mexico, her mother cares for Carlitos. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again....