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Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
4) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill is elected the new Prime Minister. It's up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect it from the most dangerous threat ever seen.
5) Spotlight
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Aramaic
Description
Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy and brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, for sentencing. The roaring crowd demands his death, so Pilate orders his crucifixion. Jesus is severely beaten and made to carry his cross up to Golgotha, the hill outside Jerusalem, where...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things go wrong, and Will and Nate find themselves on the run....
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and...
11) Glory
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, 1989
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (4 hr., 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The American Civil War is one of the most studied military conflicts in world history. Penetrates the fog of war and allows you to experience the glory and heartache of the battles that changed war forever. Through personal letters, official reports and diaries, viewers will come to understand not only the battle but also the political and personal factors that caused our nation to take up arms.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (150 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Moses sets out to rise up against the Egyptian Pharaoh. He frees 600,000 slaves and they all journey across Egypt fighting deadly plagues. The epic tale of one man's daring courage to take on an empire.
14) In darkness
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. When he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto, he hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha's conscience.
15) The aviator
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the early life of the legendary and eccentric millionaire, movie producer, director, and aviator Howard Hughes.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The beloved characters of Downton Abbey take to the big screen, and it turns out that they've got a major event to prepare for. After all, it's not every day that royalty makes an appearance. Of course, it's not long before tensions are running high. The property isn't even close to ready when it becomes clear that Carson the butler will need to come out of retirement to help run this sinking ship before it's too late.
18) The conspirator
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
2-disc collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (122 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, planned the simultaneous...
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenged his unbelief.
20) The Iron Lady
Language
English
Description
Meryl Streep portrays Margaret Thatcher, who became the first and only female Prime Minister of England. The Iron Lady is the surprisingly intimate journey of a "common" grocer's daughter whose social ambition and steel will propelled her to unprecedented power in a world dominated by men.