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Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Business is booming for Birmingham's Peaky Blinders gang, but that's not enough for its dangerous leader Tommy Shelby. As Shelby battles to keep a stronghold on his evil underworld, he risks his life encroaching on the turf of volatile gang leader Alfie Solomons.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Day by day. Hour by hour. Second by second. This is the story of last century's bloodiest conflict told in a concise and compelling 3 hour special. Includes personal accounts, strategic analysis and rare footage and provides a new and intimate perspective on the experience of war.
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
Description
El momento de la lucha habia llegado y para liberar al pueblo de Mexico, seria necesario acabar con la tirania y la dictadura que llego a oprimir al punto de El regimen del General Diaz tenia que sucumbir por medio de las armas para respetar la voluntad nacional.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Explore the life of Jesus and the movement he started, challenging familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence and interviews with the nation's leading New Testament scholars, the series transports the viewer back two thousand years to the time and place where Jesus once lived and preached.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams; and railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Going beyond...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's 1919, WWI has just ended, and Harry Selfridge is struggling with loss. After the death of his beloved Rose, he is making costly business mistakes. His empire is weakened, and he is vulnerable to his old enemy Lord Loxley.
Series
Call the midwife volume 6
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus house, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention, taking on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties of the city's elite....
13) All the way
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"April 1975. During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, the South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. The United States had only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country. With the lives of thousands of South Vietnamese hanging in the balance, those in control faced an impossible choice -- who would go and who would be left behind to face brutality, imprisonment or...
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
16) The ghost army
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Ghost Army was officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. From June 1944 to March 1945 it staged 20 battlefield deceptions, beginning in Normandy and ending at the Rhine River. These deceptions included an array of inflatables (tanks, trucks, jeeps, and airplanes), sound trucks, phony radio transmissions and even playacting to fool the enemy.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Much has changed since Selfridges first opened its doors. Five years later, Europe is on the brink of war and London is enjoying one last defiant period of decadence. Mr. Selfridge now has his sights set on joining the establishment and rebuilding his family life. Tensions are also running high on the shop floor as Agnes is back from Paris, chic and successful. Not everyone is thrilled by her newfound confidence and by the reappearance of her old...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Still mourning the loss of her family, Ellie agrees to watch her brother's children when he has to leave town. When a fire is set, Ellie works with a handsome deputy to clear a friend's name and learns that if she can trust her faith, this Christmas may bring more miracles than she hoped.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Explores the complex alchemy that accounts for the enduring celebrity of America's most famous inventor, offering new perspectives on the man and his milieu. And illuminating not only the true nature of invention, but its role in turn-of-the-century America's rush into the future.
20) Local color
Publisher
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2008?], c1991
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This 1991 OPB documentary chronicles the little known history of racism in Oregon and the story of people who worked for civil rights. Jon Tuttle was a news reporter in Portland who set out to document the story but found he was almost too late as some of the important participants had died and others were getting on in age.
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