Yves Simoneau
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of thier identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Two extraordinary women-Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X-come to life in this Lifetime Movie Network movie. After their husbands' tragic assassinations, they developed a unique friendship spanning three decades as they carried on the Civil Rights movement while supporting their families as single mothers. Through their strength and dignity, they became role models for millions of women.
4) America
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
America is a biracial boy with a troubled past and what seems to be a very uncertain future. While staying at a treatment center he must learn through the help of his therapist and another patient to confront his past demons in order to begin a new life for himself. Includes a featurette.
5) Napoleon
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Drama about the years in the life of Napoleon Bonaparte from his first decisive battle to his bitter defeat and exile.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A prequel to the video game Assassin's Creed II. It centers around the father of the game's main character Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Giovanni is an assassin living during the Renaissance in 15th century Italy. At this dawn of a new era, a conspiracy is being plotted by one corrupt family to overthrow the powerful Medici family and destroy a unified Italy. Giovanni must face this threat and bring justice.
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
After Jude Madigan abruptly deserts her family, husband Robert and their young children slowly build a happy new life with another woman. But when Jude unexpectedly returns three years later, her dangerous obsession to reclaim her former life threatens to destroy everything.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true events at Masada in 70 C.E. After being forced out of their home in Jerusalem by the Romans, 900 Jews were ensconced in a fortress at Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. Besieged at Masada, the Jews held out for months against the vast Roman armies. The series recounts the events from the perspective of a few extraordinary women who arrive at Masada with unique back stories, but a common bond for survival.
9) Nuremberg
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Dramatic presentation of the WWII war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany.
10) Free money
Publisher
Sterling Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"When two small town losers court the Swede's beautiful twin daughters, they go head to head with a father-in-law (Marlon Brando) set on making them his guests in his prison. Dreaming of breaking out, Bud (Charlie Sheen) and Larry (Thomas Hayden Church) eye a 'money train' on it's way through town. The only thing standing in the way of a financial opportunity of a lifetime is The Swede."--Container.
11) Ignition
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A Federal Judge is preparing to try the most explosive case of her career, involving corruption within the highest military levels. The power of her final ruling could severly impact attemps of the U.S. Army to launch the first rocket into space in thirty years. When she realizes the true danger, she accepts the protection assigned to her. Eventually they are pulled into a dangerous web of conspiracy, treason and murder.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In North Hollywood on a calm summer day in 1997, fifty police officers were defenseless against two lone gunmen armed with AK 47 assault rifles and full body armor. Only their extreme courage, valor and training put an end to the massacre.
13) Ruffian
Publisher
ESPN Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The story of the filly Ruffian, who dominated horse racing in the early 1970s, until a broken leg at Belmont Park ended her career and her life.
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The prequel to Lonesome Dove is set in the Texas Republic in the early 1840s, a time when Anglo, Hispanic, and Commanche cultures were in fierce conflict. Shows Gus and Call on a deadly trail to Santa Fe facing the rigors of nature and the elements, as well as outlaws, bandits, and the notorious Commanche warrior Buffalo Hump.
15) Napoleon
Language
English
Description
"In 1975, he was an unpaid general consumed with ambition. In 1816, he was a bitter exile on the remote island of St. Helena. In the years between, he was the most powerful man on earth. From the campaign that transformed the Coriscan outsider into a French hero to his bitter, final defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon charts the course of the man who defied centuries of tradition and forced his will upon a continent."-container.
16) Dead man's walk
Publisher
RHI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Experience the early adventures of Gus and Call - young, bold Texas Rangers whose tough exteriors are challenged by the vicious fighting amongst three warring cultures within their region. Follow their journey through barren deserts, snowy mountainous terrain and dangerous attacks that will begin to transform them into the heroes they will soon become."--Container.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
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...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"This made-for-television adaptation of Dean Koontz's novel is a gripping re-telling of a psychological suspense thriller. Chyna Shepherd, the 26-year-old heroine of this story, is following the trail of the serial killer who murdered her dear friend, trying to stop him from killing another innocent victim ... Chyna, whose fragile world of safety is shattered with the murder of her closest friend, summons up the courage to face down her own demons...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Lonesome Dove (widescreen, 1989, 374 min.): A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
Return to Lonesome Dove (1993, 346 min.): This gripping adventure follows three ex-Texas Rangers and chronicles...
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Language
English
Description
Mary Shelley: The story of Mary Shelley and the creation of her immortal monster, Frankenstein. Raised by a renowned philosopher father in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of...