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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dominating the landscape for centuries, ancient cathedrals and abbeys reflect Britain's turbulent history through their architectural grandeur. The film explores cathedrals and abbeys found throughout England and Wales, featuring interviews with historians and experts and breathtaking footage filming their legendary facades and soaring interior spaces.
Publisher
Naxos
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The plow that broke the plains depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression. The river traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and concludes with scenes of regional planning, TVA development and...
3) Pearl Harbor
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rio Grande: Cool trains, passenger trains, freight trains and winter ski trains, one of the most remarkable journeys in the U.S. on the Denver Rio Grande Western. Union Pacific: Climb aboard Locomotive No. 3967, a coal-burning Challenger equipped with "elephant ear" smoke deflectors, on its 40th Anniversary Steam Excursion run from Denver to Laramie, Wyoming.
6) The Cossacks
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
None
Description
A peace-loving Cossack chooses to prove himself in battle when his village and childhood sweetheart label him a coward.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Great Mississippi: The Soo Line, Burlington Northern, Chicago & Western, Minnesota & Eastern, and Dakota storm their way through the upper Mississippi Valley. Shenandoah: Visit Virginia's fabled Shenandoah Valley in diesel-powered workhorses that still punch a clock for the Winchester & Western Railroad.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, [2003]
Language
English
Description
The American Civil War is one of the most studied military conflicts in world history. Penetrates the fog of war and allows you to experience the glory and heartache of the battles that changed war forever. Through personal letters, official reports, and diaries, viewers will come to understand not only the battle but also the political and personal factors that caused our nation to take up arms.
10) The man between
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
The scene is post-war Berlin. Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) arrives in the city to stay with her brother and his German wife, Bettina. Reluctantly, Bettina takes Susanne into the Eastern Sector where they meet Ivo Kern (James Mason), a former lawyer who is being blackmailed into luring a man called Kastner to East Berlin, who is helping refugees to escape to the West. Sensing Susanne's attraction to the rogue ex-lawyer, Bettina confesses that she...
11) Henry VI, part I
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Henry's early days as king. In the war with France, England is being driven off French soil. The beginning of the long civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
From legendary action director Tsui Hark and the creators of international smash hit, Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame comes the captivating tale of Dee Renjie's beginnings in the Imperial police force. His very first case, investigating reports of a sea monster terrorizing the town, reveals a sinister conspiracy of treachery and betrayal, leading to the highest reaches of the Imperial family.
16) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy about a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 2001, two ordinary football teams met on a field to play sixty minutes of football. But this was no ordinary game. This was the Army-Navy game that would occur just weeks after the attacks of September 11. This film looks back at that historic game and profiles the journeys of three of its players who dedicated themselves to this country.
19) The journey
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland. Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
20) The last samurai
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
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