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Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
Two young Englishmen set off on a leisurely sailing holiday in the period before the first World War. The Englishman's life is threatened after an encounter with a mysterious German yachtsman and his daughter off the North Sea coast of Germany.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides -- Americans who fought...
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Screaming queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States -- a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn."--container.
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From creator, Taylor Sheridan comes a prequel to Yellowstone. It follows the original Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It's a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land Montana.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Between 1861 and 1865, this epic American story of struggle and survival was written in blood, and in this series is told mostly from first-hand accounts and in the spoken words of the participants themselves, through their diaries, letters, and memoirs. The series concludes with Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and the surrender of the western Confederate Army to Sherman in North Carolina in the spring of 1865. It then explores the legacy...
Publisher
Distributed by Northeast Historic Film
Pub. Date
c[200-?]
Language
English
Description
The long log drive - a spring journey down icy streams and rivers moving logs from the forest to the mill for sawing into boards, laths, and clapboards. For more than 150 years, logging techniques remained the same: men cut trees by hand and loaded them on horse-drawn sleds to be hauled over snow to the river. Skilled river drivers maneuvered the logs downstream, risking their limbs and lives every day. This film survives as the best, most vivid and...
Publisher
Maya Vision International
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Join British historian Michael Wood as he takes a look at the sights, sounds, and achievements of India 60 years after it became independent, from its diverse civilization to its potential to overtake the U.S. economy in a few years' time.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Using James Baldwin's unfinished final manuscript, Remember This House, this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author's friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., delving into the legacy of these iconic figures and narrating historic events using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. An up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, this film is a journey into...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Spurred by a personal tragedy, America's foremost documentarian is tackling cancer. Ken Burns examines cancer with a cellular biologistb2ss precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. The series artfully weaves three different films in one: a riveting historical documentary; an engrossing and intimate verite film; and a scientific and investigative report.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Season two picks up directly from the dramatic events and the end of the season one finale, continuing to explore the growing chaos within Alexandria, the complicated interpersonal dynamics of Dr. Foster, Nurse Mary and the Mansion House staff, the increasingly precarious position of the Green family and the changing predicament of the burgeoning black population.
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