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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) 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
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romulus and Remus are two shepherds and loyal brothers who are destined to found the greatest empire the world has ever seen, but only one can rule. The journey to greatness is paved with blood, and the fate of the chosen one lies in the hands of their brother.
6) Suffragette
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
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...
7) The northman
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
A viking prince avenges the murder of his father.
10) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wrenching historical drama that recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. Written and directed by John Sayles, this film issues an impassioned cry for justice that still resounds today.
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) Lincoln
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
16) Call Jane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the only available alternative, helmed by fierce advocates...
17) 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...
18) 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.
19) The beguiled
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
20) Happening
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Annie Ernaux recounts her experience with abortion during a time when it was illegal in 1960s France.
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