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1) Edvard Munch
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A biography of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch and the effect his upbringing in Norway had on his work and whose raw, modern work The Scream shocked the bourgeois world.
2) The founder
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xii, 243 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Chronicles the attempts of a young Russian filmmaker to portray Catherine the Great, both before and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in projects that elude his ideas of the larger-than-life historical figure.
4) Joan of Arc
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
15th century French peasant girl, Joan, rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. Fiercely believing that she is directed by God, Joan triumphantly leads an Army into battle against the British, who are driven from France. When a new king is crowned, Joan's influence grows and makes him wary of her power, ultimately betraying her to martyrdom.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (206 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The year is 1929 and dictator Benito Mussolini is still faced with the 20-year long war waged by Bedouin patriots to combat Italian colonization in Africa. Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani governor of Libya, confident that he can crush the rebellion and restore the glories of Imperial Rome. Inspirational in the Bedouin resistance toward the oppressors is the leadership of one man--Omar Mukhtar. A teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation,...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism.
7) Anthropoid
Formats
Description
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the code name for the secret Czechoslovakian mission to assassinate Nazi SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution to the Jewish question, was the Reich's third in command and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
"At its best the film evokes the palpable terror of a city where uniformed thugs could arrest or kill anyone at any time with...
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the Prague Spring, that brief flowering of freedom that preceded the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Vojtech Jasny directed this impassioned account of his country's tragic relationship with the Soviet Union. Follows the inhabitants of a small Moravian village in the twenty years after Nazi occupation, through to communist rule.
10) Galileo
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest....
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter selection sheet.
Description
In the year 79 AD, the ancient seaside city of Pompeii was buried beneath a mountain of volcanic ash and pumice when nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius furiously erupted. More than two thousand of Pompeii's citizens lost their lives. For almost 1,700 years, until its rediscovery in 1748, Pompeii lay hidden - a city and its people suspended in time. Now we can see the streets and buildings almost as they were on the day Pompeii died- an incredible snapshot...
13) 1900
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (315 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers.
14) The good earth
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
15) Two family house
Publisher
Lion's Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 48 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Defying everything and everyone, including his wife, Buddy Visalo decides to follow his dream. When he meets a woman who truly believes in him, he must choose between the only life he's ever known and his desire for happiness.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
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...
17) Vatel
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Duc de Conde?'s employee, Franc?ois Vatel, is in charge of cooking, and preparing shows for the French King Louis XIV when he visits the castle of Chantilly, owned by de Conde?. If Vatel can impress the King, de Conde? will gain his favors, and the destiny of France will change. While the King is visiting and three days of banquets ensue, Vatel falls in love with the King's mistress.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (12 hr., 36 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thirty-six rail industry, War Dept., and film industry-produced short films chronicle the development of the railroad industry in the U.S. from the first transcontinental line to modern diesel engines.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the power struggle that followed John Hickley Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan's life. "On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, trying to prove his love for actress Jodie Foster, attempts to assassinate President Ronald Reagan (Richard Crenna) in front of the Washington Hilton. Only 70 days into his term, Reagan takes a bullet between the heart and lung and is forced into the hospital. Meanwhile, with Vice President Bush in transit,...
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