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1) Churchill
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...
2) East of Eden
Author
Appears on list
Description
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
336 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Description
Hollywood cinema and Los Angeles cannot be understood apart. Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles traces the interaction of the real city, its movie business, and filmed image, focusing on the crucial period from the construction of the first studios in the 1910s to the decline of the studio system fifty years later. As Los Angeles gradually became one of the ten largest cities in the world, the film industry made key contributions to its rapid...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending...
Publisher
distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A new gang has taken over the Dragon Inn three years after it was left in ruins, using it as their base for uncovering a nearby treasure. But secrets lie within its walls, as a pregnant palace concubine and a swordswoman take refuge from a determined royal eunuch tracking their every move. As an explosive mix of warriors, fugitives, and assassins converge in the desert for a deadly showdown, only one man can protect the women--the mysterious Zhao....
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xix, 310 pages, 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Description
"Based on the spellbinding world of the Walt Disney Studios film, Tomorrowland, this original prequel novel features a 20-page comic book and unlocks a place of unfathomable science and technology and the famous people behind it. The year is 1939. A secret society of extraordinary geniuses is about to share an incredible discovery with the world. A misguided enemy - half man, half machine - will stop at nothing to prevent the group from giving this...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 472 pages : chiefly colored illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
The family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact, told by Zapruder's granddaughter, draws on personal records and previously sealed archive sources to trace the film's role in the media, courts, government, and arts community.--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + Part 1 guidebook (ii, 69 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.) + Part 2 guidebook (ii, 65 p. ; 22 cm.) + Part 3 guidebook (ii, 63 p. ; 22 cm.)
Description
Few nations have as long and intricate a history as China. Despite a world grown increasingly smaller, China is still seen as a faraway, exotic land, shrouded in secrets, veiled with the mysteries of ages past. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth - facts left unexplored in the history courses most of us in the West have taken. It is essential that Westerners...
10) Braveheart
Description
In the intersection of history and legend lies the story of William Wallace, who led his nation into battle against the English in the years around 1300. King Edward, popularly known as "Longshanks" has allowed the English barons who hold Scotland for him to claim the 'Prima Nocta.' Wallace and his love Murron marry secretly, but his guerrilla activities bring Murron to the attention of the English. They set a trap for Wallace, and the failure...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (481 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season Eighteen was a historic one; the last before the Simpsons movie, the season-finale 400th episode, 24 Minutes, Treehouse of Horror XVII with the sepia-tone classic "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" and much much more.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 158 pages ; 19 cm.).
Description
Through Professor Hale's vibrant commentary and extensive field footage, you discover monumental ancient cities, classical ruins, temples, shrines, fortresses, stadiums, theaters, churches, and palaces. In each site, you explore the critical history and culture that defined them and the ways in which they influenced our modern world. In their compelling historical and visual detail, the lectures offer both a rich resource for travelers preparing to...
Publisher
[Distributed by] Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (596 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (xxi, 110 p. : ill. ; 20 cm)
Description
Celebrated is the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies. Presented is the American West as it was recorded and imagined in the first decades of motion pictures. "Brings together 40 silent and early sound films--narrative shorts and features, documentaries, promotional films, newsreel stories, and travelogues--showcasing the American West as it was recorded and imagined from 1898 to 1938." -- Booklet, p. viii....
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (21 cm.)
Description
"Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the brief, brilliant cultural phenomenon we call the Renaissance lay the Middle Ages - fully 1,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and religious turmoil and treasures. This course offers an interdisciplinary look at medieval society and culture, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, and the tumultuous historical forces at work from A.D. 500 through A.D. 1500. Medieval Europe was the world...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
"Do you like history, perhaps investigating where your family came from or learning what challenges your ancestry met and where they called home? This course traces some of the wanderings of our wider family, the biosphere, from its first appearance on Earth around 4 billion years ago through to the present day. This journey has been a fantastic one, whit many interesting twists and turns along the way, many high points and more than a few crises."--page...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 193, 7 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm)
Description
Military strategy matters. Civilizations with the greatest strategists-often coupled with the greatest resources-have had a powerful edge over competing civilizations. From Napoleon's revolutionary campaigns to the way insurgency, terrorism, and nuclear weaponry have defined the nature of warfare in the 21st century, the results of military strategy have changed the course of history. Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers gives you...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (12 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 147 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Taught by acclaimed linguist, author, and Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University, Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage dispels the cloud of confusion that clings to English, giving you a crystal-clear view of why we use it the way we do and where it fits into the diverse languages of the world. After completing these 24 lectures, you will think about how you use English in a new way, listen to others with discernment and fascination,...
20) A secret
Author
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man discovers his family's history during the Holocaust.
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