Traveler's Rest Films
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
New Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jay Gatsby is a man possessed--driven by greed, ambition and, most of all, an unwavering desire for a woman he met before the Great War, when he was poor and she was unobtainable. F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is an extraordinary journey into the heart of the American Dream and out the other side, where the spoils of success do not always suffice. This lively and lavish adaptation from A & E captures the heady swirl of the Jazz Age in all its...
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
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Years ago, a secret government drug experiment produced a dangerously gifted child. When she becomes enraged, she unleased her pyrokinetic powers. The child is now a woman who has spent the past 10 years on the run from the unscrupulous government agents who created her. Now she's through running and has decided to reclaim her life. Charlie's only chance for survival lies in a turncoat government agent and a half-mad professor.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Based on the autobiography by Senator John McCain and Mark Salter, Faith Of My Fathers chronicles the younger years of Senator McCain's life, beginning as a hotshot Navy pilot through his five years of captivity as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Casualties of war: Based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to a vile crime, Private Eriksson is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve, a powerful and charismatic man pushed over the edge of barbarism by the terror and brutality of combat
Faith of my fathers: People know John McCain as a maverick presidential candidate, but before a...