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Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (564 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"A riveting adventure of how America was invented. 'America the story of us' focuses on the people, ideas and events that built our nation, covering 400 years of America history in the most extensive and in-depth television series ever produced by History. Sharing their thoughts on the building of America, and what it means to be an American, are a world-class group of individuals including Tom Brokaw, Michael Douglas, Meryl Streep, Buzz Aldrin, Colin...
2) The Marines
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For longer than the United States has been an independent nation, there has been a Marine Corps. They consider themselves the very best America has to offer. Embodying fierce patriotism, extraordinary courage, and innovative weapons, they are a force. This documentary focuses on their training and examines what it means to be a Marine.
3) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight...
4) Red eye
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, Lisa Reisert boards the dreaded red eye for a flight back to Miami so she can make it to work the next day. On board, Lisa meets Jackson Ripner and their attraction grows. But moments after take-off, Jackson reveals that he has Lisa's father's wallet that he swiped off his desk and his real reason for being on board. Jackson needs Lisa's help to kill the deputy secretary of Homeland Security...
Publisher
Questar Inc
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : digital, sound, color and black and white ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
This educational program explores the history and culture of 1950s America using archival footage, rare interviews and period music. The program explores how television helped to change the American culture landscape, and looks at how this one decade affected the rest of the century. The program highlights important cultural figures from the decade, including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Jackie Gleason, Lucille...
6) Dark money
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana, a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide, to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that "political spending is a form of protected...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters
8) Ask the dust
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A young Italian would-be writer comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets Camilla, who is hoping to marry a rich American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016, 2017.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (16 hr. 31 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wife, mother, and diplomat Elizabeth McCord (Tea Leoni) is used to solving the most desperate crises overseas, but this time, the danger is closer than ever. As global tensions continue to mount, the McCord family becomes the focus in a sinister stalking case, the culprit of which no one could ever suspect. If a personal target wasn't enough, Elizabeth's husband Henry (Tim Daly) is assigned to take down a violent doomsday cult that is preparing to...
10) The 20th century
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 755 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences, double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brings the 20th century back to life through narration, rare photographs and stunning footage.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 674 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season one of the Netflix original series House of Cards. Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more
12) Yhomeless?
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Glen Dunzweiler discovers that homelessness is unbiased and could happen to anyone without a support network to fall back on. By traveling the country and speaking with destitute men and women, he confirms that homeless people are people first, and deserve not pity, but respect and help.
13) The bucket list
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life
14) Patton
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department
15) Rain man
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) has just discovered he has an autistic brother named Raymond (Hoffman) and is now taking him on the ride of his life. Or is it the other way around? From his refusal to drive on major highways to a "four minutes to Wapner" meltdown at an Oklahoma farmhouse, Raymond first pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience ... and then pulls him completely out of his self-centered world! But what begins as an unsentimental...
16) The Vietnam War
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides -- Americans who fought...
17) God in America
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Tells the sweeping and dramatic story of religious life in America, examining more than 500 years of American religious history, from the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the 2008 presidential election. Examine this history as it has played out in public life, exploring the complex interaction between religion and democracy in the United States; the origins of the American concept of religious liberty; the dynamics of the ever-evolving American religious...
18) Man of the year
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Tom Dobbs makes an off-hand comment on his late night talk show that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House. A grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly ushered into the Oval Office and forced to live up to his promise. Unfortunately for Dobbs, he finds out that his surprise victory was actually the result of a voting computer glitch and not winning the majority vote...
Publisher
Paccom
Pub. Date
[2002], ©1995.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary about the building of Route 66 and its golden days. Route 66 was once the main highway from Chicago to Los Angeles. Covers the 1920s through the 1990s.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American intelligence officer's youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him.
Edward, the only witness to his father's suicide and a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his...
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