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1) 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.
2) 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
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...
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,...
5) The northman
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
A viking prince avenges the murder of his father.
8) Stalingrad
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film features the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare - the legendary battle of Stalingrad.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
11) Lost illusions
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
When an aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris, he agrees to write positive reviews for bribes, and finds success at the expense of his conscience.
12) Mozart's sister
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in. ; 32 min.)
Description
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe.
Series
Criterion collection volume 978
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
The lives of two very different women in 1970s France intertwine as the women's movement progresses.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An idealistic young woman falls for a rebel leader and takes on a murderous dictator. Today, November 25 is observed in many Latin American countries as the International Day Against Violence Towards Women. This is based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, whose deaths became the final blow to the regime of Leonidas Trujillo, who was assassinated six months later.
17) Devi
Series
Criterion collection volume 1102
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Set in mid-nineteenth-century India, a wealthy rural landowner becomes obsessed with the idea that his daughter-in-law is the reincarnation of the goddess Kali with tragic consequences.
18) Hidden figures
Formats
Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
19) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Publisher
Total-Content
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shows events that led to the conflict in 1877 between the Nez Perce?s and the U.S. Army. Chief Joseph led the 300 Nez Perce? braves, their women and children in the historic running battle against ten separate commands of the Army.
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