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Publisher
Shock Records [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A multi-award winner, this period drama is set in a fashionable London townhouse during the period from 1903 to 1930 and follows the many personal dramas and 'ups and downs' of the affluent Bellamy family and their servants. The series accurately portrays what life was like in Edwardian England, through World War 1 and into the Roaring Twenties.
4) Unconquered
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Peace-loving Chris Holden is a militiaman who buys and then frees beautiful indentured servant Abby Hale. When a supplier of illegal firearms covets Abby for himself, he sparks a vicious battle between an Indian tribe and a few brave colonists.
5) The Alamo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from stunning war reportage to an intimate portrait of one man's personal struggle at home in North Carolina, where Harris confronts the physical and emotional difficulties of re-adjusting to civilian...
7) Cranford
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her dumurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move...
8) Braveheart
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
William Wallace is a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation.
9) Big bear
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Pushed to the breaking point, the Cree warriors launch a deadly attack at Frog Lake. With vengeful army troops relentlessly in pursuit, the Cree know that another even more bloody battle will follow.
10) John Adams
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
11) Genghis Khan
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Genghis Khan's rise from captive slave boy to daring guerilla leader, to confidant and ally of the Emperor of China, to savior of the Empire against barbarian invaders.
13) Tristan + Isolde
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A young Tristan sees his parents killed by the tyrannical Irish, who ruled over a fractured Britain after the Roman occupation. Tristan is taken in by Marke, who rules one of the British tribes. Tristan grows up to be a young prince and a mighty warrior. He's believed slain in battle and given a royal funeral on a burning boat set out to sea. But the fire goes out and Tristan washes ashore on Ireland, where Isolde, the daughter of the Irish king,...
14) In darkness
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
15) Seppuku
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
18) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and uncertainty enveloping the village.
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