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Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of four brilliant young men at Cambridge University who are recruited to spy for Russia. They take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. This premiered on BBC America on October 25, 2003.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (432 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
3) Pearl Harbor
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 digital copy disc (4 3/4 in.)
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A war correspondent for the AP news agency is the guide on the trade route that for centuries linked the Far East to the West. Experience the fascinating tour through six countries encountering specialists, historians and people with a passion who will help the viewer learn the past and present identities of those countries. From Venice to Turkey to Xi₂an to China, rediscover the Silk Road.
9) La llorona
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efraâin Râios Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people's demands...
12) 1945
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
August twelveth of 1945 at eleven in the morning. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.
13) Emily
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Imagines Emily Bronte's own story that inspired 'Wuthering Heights.' As she struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her potential into the seminal novel.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy drama based on the true story of the American opera singer. World renowned as a virtuosic pianist, Florence Foster Jenkins has a new dream: to become a famous opera singer. Her voice, however, leaves a lot to be desired and she becomes famous for her lack of talent. Despite the constant critisicm from her peers and audiences which Florence's manager and partner St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) endeavours to keep from her, Florence battles on...
16) A Perfect Day
Formats
Description
It's just another day on the job for a band of badass combat zone rescue workers as they defy death and confront warb2ss absurdities. The setting is 1995, somewhere in the Balkans. Over the course of 24 breathless hours, Mambru, leads his team of humanitarian, including hard-bitten, wisecracking veteran B and new recruit Sophie, as they deal with a most unexpected crisis, layers of bureaucratic red tape, and the reappearance of Mambru's old flame....
18) The Alamo
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of the historic battle by 185 men against a 7,000-man Mexican army--a battle that ended in the smaller forces' defeat, but lasted long enough to insure the eventual independence of Texas.
19) The insider
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.
20) The last emperor
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([14] p. : col. ill. ; 17 cm.)
Description
"The life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne in 1908 at the age of three, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval within and without the walls of the Forbidden City." -- Container.
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