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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) 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...
3) 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.
5) Their finest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the bombing of London in World War II, a film crew puts together a movie to boost the country's morale and convince Americans to join the war.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1953, and the piece of talking furniture called TV is still a novelty in America's living rooms. On it, Sen. Joseph McCarthy uses fear, falsehooods and belligerence to become arguably the most powerful man in the land. On it , newsman Edward R. Murrow, who's had his fill of the senator's tactics, fights back.
Series
Controversial classics volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
True story of the Watergate break-in that led to the political scandal of the decade.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I, who rules as the Queen of England. Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each court imperil both Queens, driving them apart, as each...
11) Journey's end
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a group of British soldiers find themselves fighting in a trench during World War I, they learn that their commanding officer is losing his mental composure.
12) Amsterdam
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
13) Just mercy
Publisher
Warner Bros
Formats
Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
14) Black '47
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One man's ruthless pursuit of justice plays out against the darkest chapter of Irish history in this riveting revenge thriller. In 1847, battle-hardened soldier Feeney deserts the British army to return home to Ireland, where he finds his country ravaged beyond recognition by the Great Famine. When he discovers that his mother has died of starvation and his brother has been hanged by the British, something snaps, sending Feeney on a relentless quest...
15) Victoria & Abdul
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (1hr. 51min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of the relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian Muslim servant Abdul Karim.
Formats
Description
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for...
18) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds
19) American made
Formats
Description
American pilot Barry Seal is recruited by the CIA to become a drug runner in a secret operation and eventually goes to work for a drug cartel in South America during the 1980s.
20) Denial
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (ca. 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Deborah Lipstadt speaks out against Holocaust denier David Irving over his falsification of history, she discovers that the stakes are higher than ever in the battle for historical truth. Now faced with a libel lawsuit in British court, Lipstadt and her attorney have the heavy burden of proving that the Holocaust actually happened, in a riveting legal fight with stunning consequences.
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