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Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008, c2002
Language
English
Description
After a terrible car accident involving his family, 12-year-old Mark is sent to live with his strict aunt Fiona on a beautiful and remote island. Isolated from most of the world, Fiona and a park ranger are the only humans on the island which is home to a herd of wild horses. Mark must follow the rules, including the fact he is forbidden to touch the horses. But when the mother of a young colt is killed, Mark breaks the rules and begins to feed and...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, invited the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York. But during the first-ever visit of a reigning British monarch to America, international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal trip an unforgettable one....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the 1920s, memories of Theodore Roosevelt begin to fade. The Great War is over, Woodrow Wilson is ill, and the American public is weary of domestic reform and events overseas. The Republican Party nominates Warren G. Harding for president, while Democratic nominee James M. Cox chooses thirty-eight-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt to be his running mate. FDR campaigns with relish, and eventually persuades Eleanor to join him as he crisscrosses the...
Publisher
Distributed by Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A history of women's achievement in America examines the 400-year history of American women's inspiring accomplishments and victories.
America becomes a super power, 1936-1956. This program discusses Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosie the riveter, Babe Didrikson, Margaret Chase Smith, Gwendolyn Books, Rosa Parks, and Althea Gibson.
Women begin to transform themselves, 1916-1935. This program discusses the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
By April of 1944, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt have occupied the White House for more than eleven years. The President is secretly convalescing in South Carolina from a recently diagnosed bout of congestive heart failure while the war rages overseas and his family is under press scrutiny at home. Despite his failing health, FDR has ambitious postwar plans for his country: to see the horrific struggle through to victory, and then to bring the United...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After William McKinley's assassination, Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Washington in 1901 as the youngest President of the United States. He is unwilling to let Congress dictate federal policies and he knows how to use his immense popularity with the press to disseminate his message to the public. With TR's presidency comes a string of firsts – the first to be known by his initials, the first to leave the country while in office, the first to own...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With his election to the New York State Senate in 1910, Franklin D. Roosevelt sets out to make a name for himself in Albany, much as Theodore Roosevelt had done twenty-nine years earlier. He joins forces with reform-minded Democrats to fight against the powerful bosses of their own party, and battles for state government and labor reforms – but to the dismay of many, his support is sometimes unreliable. For Eleanor Roosevelt, distance away from...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are the most prominent members of one of the most important families in American history. Theodore and Franklin occupy the White House for nineteen of the first forty-five years of the twentieth century, years during which much of the modern world – and the modern state – is created. They share an unfeigned love for people and politics and a willingness to defy class prejudices to help create a true democracy...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After the tragic murder of King Simon by an unknown assailant, Cyrus, Simon's arrogant brother, has taken the throne with the help of Queen Helena. Prince Liam seeks vengeance for the death of the king while Princess Eleanor struggles to live her seemingly fairytale life. While allies are formed and enemies are made in the royal palace, nothing is what it seems and everyone has their own agenda. Not since Marie Antoinette has there been so much anarchy...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With exclusive, unprecedented access is the first film to encompass the remarkable story of Vivienne's life, her fashion, her personality, her activism and her cultural importance. Since igniting the punk movement with ex-partner and Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren, Dame Vivienne Westwood has been redefining British fashion for over 40 years, and is responsible for creating many of the most distinctive looks of our time.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of the 20th century, Detective William Murdoch solves Toronto2s trickiest cases with scientific insight and ingenuity in this award-winning mystery series. From flying early aircraft to infiltrating nudist communities, consulting with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to helping a young Winston Churchill, Murdoch has always been a man ahead of his time. In Season Six, he also confronts legal and social challenges to be with his love, pathologist-turned-psychiatrist...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
How did the Earth transform from a hot ball of molten rock and metal into the planet that we call home? How did our continents and oceans grow? Where did our great mountain ranges come from? The geological processes that have shaped our world have also influenced the way humans have populated the planet. From the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, this series reveals the physical processes that have shaped some of the most...
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