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Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
Letterboxed format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Elizabeth I beginning with her imprisonment in the Tower of London, a dramatic retelling that highlights the plots, intrigue, and deception surrounding and involving the life and reign of the charismatic Queen.
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling Little House series.
3) Henry Ford
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
An absorbing life story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management, and a thought-provoking reminder of how Ford's automobile forever changed the way we work, where we live, and our ideas about individuality, freedom, and possibility.
5) Roots
Language
English
Formats
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War. Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
7) The offer
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (541 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This epic ten-episode limited event series tells the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of Oscar®-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's journey of bringing Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic masterpiece The Godfather to the big screen. This critically acclaimed series contains over 2.5 hours of special features, including featurettes, deleted scenes, and more!
8) Hemingway
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examine the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers: Ernest Hemingway. Intimate and insightful, the series weaves together Hemingway's biography with excerpts from his work. The film penetrates the myth of Hemingway to reveal a deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen U.K. edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' acclaimed novel follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different men: a half-Indian son of a vicar who is framed for a crime he may or may not have committed, and Doyle, who investigates the case.
10) The wronged man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, a paralegal endures a twenty-two-year battle with the justice system to help an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (773 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus DVD.
Language
English
Description
Featuring a stellar cast, the 13 part mini-series traces the extraordinary life of Charles Dickens from his penniless childhood in Chatham and London during the 1820s to the unprecedented success he later enjoyed on both sides of the Atlantic.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Written by Woody Guthrie in 1940, "This land is your land" is one of the United States' most famous songs. Its Oklahoma-born author, Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie, was a complex, multi-talented man whose songs would come to exemplify that strain of American music. Yet his life was a tangle of unresolved contradictions: an indifferent guitar player yet an accomplished musician; three times married, but a perennially unfaithful husband; distant or...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (466 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but Da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light.
Publisher
Paramount Television
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (525 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Final Season revolves around more court machinations, complicated relationships, and coup attempts. Catherine is still in charge, meeting with peasants and nobles to get input on her quest to modernize Russia. She's working on bonding with Peter and their young son Paul. Meanwhile, the sidelined Peter tries his hand at ₃First Husband₄ duties like hunting and inventing new cuisines but soon finds himself bored with his lack of power. This 4-disc...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Angel of mercy, or murderous 'Doctor Death'? Jack Kevorkian is one of the most polarizing figures in modern American history, a man whose passionate belief that people have the right to die has brought him both praise and vilification.
Author
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 607 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"An up-to-date and indispensable guide for film history buffs of all kind, this book surveys more than 500 major films based on true stories and historical subject matter"--
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (214 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early hours of November 8, 1974, the 7th Earl of Lucan disappeared without a trace. What investigators subsequently found shocked the public: the body of his children's nanny, Sandra, bludgeoned to death in the basement. These two exciting dramas explore the crime and its aftermath.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
George Washington, was a social climber, land-hungry Virginia surveyor, and military officer who often blamed others for his own errors. He gradually built a reputation as a gentleman by educating himself in the classics and sciences, entering politics, and marrying one of the wealthiest women in Virginia. The battle of Trenton changed everything with a victory both for America and Washington himself. His skill and bravery transformed Washington into...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the most famous and controversial artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Explores the complete spectrum of Warhol's artistic output, from the late 1940s to his death in 1987.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
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