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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the history of the American West, starting with the first European explorations and ending with the beginning of the 20th century. Examines the impact of the white settlers on the lives of the Native Americans and the land. Also discusses the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the battle of Little Bighorn, and the massacre at Wounded Knee.
3) Little Women
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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Description
Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
Experience one of the most significant milestones in film history like never before with To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch -...
5) Glory
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War.
6) 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.
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
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
10) 12 Years a Slave
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast, 12 Years a Slave is both an unflinching account of slavery in American history...
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
1585: Philip II's Catholic Spain is the most powerful empire in the world. Only England, ruled by Protestant Elizabeth, stands against him. The Queen is threatened by a depleted treasury, constant threats of assassination, and plots by Philip to install her cousin, Queen Mary of Scotland, on her throne. To which end a great armada is poised to invade England--as punishment for the capture of his treasure-ships, and to make Europe safe for Catholicism--even...
12) Thelma & Louise
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A waitress and a housewife try to get away from their boyfriend and husband for a weekend but instead end up on a crosscountry crime spree through the South.
13) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
14) Blazing saddles
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Language
English
Description
A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, traveling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating by...
16) Influenza, 1918
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1918, an army private reported to a hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, an illness that doctors knew little about. By the end of WWI, America was ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people.
17) Thirteen days
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Oct. 1962, for thirteen extraordinary days the world stood on the brink of destruction. Krushchev wouldn't back down, President Kennedy wouldn't give in. Inspired by the real-life events that took place in the Kennedy White House.
18) Temple Grandin
Publisher
Distributed by Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of a woman with autism who accomplished a lot more than others even though it was not easy.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
20) Gran Torino
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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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...