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Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
Letterboxed format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Elizabeth I beginning with her imprisonment in the Tower of London, a dramatic retelling that highlights the plots, intrigue, and deception surrounding and involving the life and reign of the charismatic Queen.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling Little House series.
3) Henry Ford
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An absorbing life story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, Henry Ford offers an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management, and a thought-provoking reminder of how Ford's automobile forever changed the way we work, where we live, and our ideas about individuality, freedom, and possibility.
5) Roots
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 389 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War. Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1996
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the rustic childhood to his tragic death, this is the definitive look at the stoic president who risked everything to save his nation.
10) Ernest Hemingway
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This program explores his life and literary psyche through the eyes of those who knew him"--Container.
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A biography of American author Ernest Hemingway, visiting places important to his life and work, and sharing memories of friends and relatives, as well as excerpts from Hemingway's own letters and writings.
12) Martin Luther
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther nailed his treatise to the doors of the Wittenberg Cathedral and forever changed the Christian world. This previously obscure German monk unleashed forces that would plunge Europe into war and chaos. He offered the Christian world a new vision of man's relationship with God and, in turn, redefined man's relationship with authority in general, bringing the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.
13) Mark Twain
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
14) Thomas Jefferson
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.
15) Napoleon
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For nearly two decades he strode the world stage like a colossus--loved and despised, venerated and feared. From his birth on the rugged island of Corsica to his final exile on the godforsaken island of St. Helena, Napoleon brings this extraordinary figure to life.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time.
Publisher
A&E Television Network
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From his days as a Dakota cowboy to the White House and beyond, Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion explores every aspect of Theodore Roosevelt's remarkable life.
Publisher
Starz Originals
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (553 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gaius Claudius Glaber is dead. The rebellion has swelled to thousands of freed slaves, and Spartacus, alongside his generals Crixus, Gannicus and Agron, prepares for war with Rome. The Roman Senate turns to Marcus Crassus, a wealthy, strategic politician, for aid. With a young Julius Caesar as an ally, Crassus must crush the rebellion.
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