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English
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An epic story of the South's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in the antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction. The focus is on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara whose love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett...
2) 300
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw....
3) United 93
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Once hijacked, the passengers and crew are able...
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
Language
English
Description
By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
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Pub. Date
2005
Language
Español
Description
Nacido en 1795 en la California hispana, Diego de la Vega está atrapado entre dos mundos. Su padre es militar convertido en próspero hacendado, su madre es guerrera indígena y su abuela materna es la sabia chamán de su tribu. Del primero, Diego aprende las virtudes de un hidalgo, mientras su madre y su abuela lo inician en las tradiciones indígenas. Desde la niñez se da cuenta de las injusticias que soportan los indios a mano de los colonos...
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Language
Español
Description
Un clásico de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX, que es a su vez una audaz exploración de las posibilidades de representación en la literatura, a través de la superposición de niveles de tiempo, espacio y consciencia narrativos. "Las revoluciones las hacen los hombres de carne y hueso y no los santos, y todas acaban por crear una nueva casta privilegiada..." En su lecho de muerte, durante su último medio día, el anciano y enfermo Artemio...
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
9) The Queen
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
PG ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers. From Fonzie's leather jacket to Archie Bunker's...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War starting arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food,...
Author
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most...
14) Rough riders
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 183 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fact-based, rough and tumble western depicting a young and energetic Theodore Roosevelt leading his legendary Rough Riders in their fight against oppressive Spanish rule at the turn of the 20th century.
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
16) Casablanca
Language
English
Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
17) Elizabeth
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naïve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for the good of her country.
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Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Language
Español
Description
En plena Guerra Civil espąola, el joven ̌mdico ̕Vctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un na̕vo fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que lle̤v a ̀ms de dos mil espąoles rumbo a Valpar̕aso, embarcàrn en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su p̕as. Recibidos como ȟroes en Chile--se {28}largo ̌ptalo de...
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Quasimodo ventures from his tower to the joyous festival of fools, but the crowd turns cruel and rejects him because of the way he looks. The gypsy Esmeralda rescues him and he finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves--while reminding us to see people as they are rather than how they appear.
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En plena Guerra Civil esp♯ola, el joven mdico Vctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navo fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que lleÞv a ms de dos mil esp♯oles rumbo a Valparaso, embarcarn en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su pas. Recibidos como €roes en Chile--se {28}largo ptalo de mar y nieve
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