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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.
2) 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.
4) 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
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...
6) Lincoln
Language
English
Formats
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
7) Apollo 11
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From director Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, the film takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission, the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned Confederate army deserter leads a milita of fellow deserters, runaway slaves, and women in an uprising against the local Confederate government in Mississippi.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (117 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
11) Suffragette
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
12) Wonderstruck
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the tale of two deaf children separated by fifty years. In 1927 New York City, Rose searches for the actress whose life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977 in the Midwest, Ben runs away from home to find his father.
13) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
14) Zero dark thirty
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (157 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
15) The chaperone
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become. Written by Julian Fellowes and based on the beloved novel by Laura Moriarty.
16) 300
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead a Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw....
17) Ferrari
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari and his wife built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
18) The finest hours
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
20) Harriet
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of Americaѫs greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.