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1) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language.
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...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs. 20 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy.
3) Gettysburg
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Language
English
Description
Civil War drama depicting the events and personal struggles of the Union and Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mac and Dal, two brothers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War, return home to Texas to discover that their sisters and Dal's sweetheart have been kidnapped by rampaging Rebel guerrillas refusing to accept the defeat of the Confederacy. With the help of their notorious uncle, Mac and Dal must rescue the women before they can be sold into a Mexican brothel.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.
Author
Series
Secret refuge volume 1
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will the Wounded Soldier She Rescues From Certain Death be Able to Break Down the Walls of Bitterness That Surround Her Heart? Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War. Jesselynn is also...
10) Glory
Language
English
Description
Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War.
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (378 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two clans caught on opposite sides when the Civil War erupts in May 1861: the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina. As war is waged on one battlefield after another, lives on the homefront as well as the frontlines drastically change. The hatred, prejudice and greed that tear the fabric of a nation also threaten the very foundation of love and friendship between these two families.
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
[Collector's ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (561 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One is from a Northern industrial family, one from a Southern plantation family. They're West Point graduates whose tried-and-true loyalty helps them survive the Mexican-American War. But their bond faces sterner tests. The issues dividing North and South can also set friend against friend.
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,...
14) The beguiled
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
15) Pharaoh's army
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until a soldier's wounds heal. The Union Captain falls for the woman whose husband is off at war, while her son plots revenge on the Yankees.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story behind the beloved Christmas carol and its author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Known as America's Poet, Henry leads an idyllic life, until the day his world is shattered by tragedy. With a nation divided by the Civil War and his family torn apart, Henry puts down his pen, silenced by grief. But it's the sound of Christmas morning that reignites the poet's lost voice as he discovers the resounding hope of rekindled faith.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Coogan's bluff: An Arizona lawman's unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer angers a tough NYC police lieutenant.
The beguiled: A wounded soldier finds shelter in an all-girls academy during the Civil War.
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 381 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
20) Grant
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (256 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The dramatized mini-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.