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2) Causes won, lost, and forgotten: how Hollywood & popular art shape what we know about the Civil War
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lost--not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art, showing how these stories have both reflected and influenced the political, social, and racial currents...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 140 pages : maps ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
From the ancient battlefields of Thermopylae, Marathon, and Gaugamela, to the imperial halls of Persepolis, to the bustling marketplace of Athens, survey the conflicts between the Greeks and the Persians, as well as its impact on the world at large.
4) Bombshell
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
5) Priscilla
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists, writers, and musicians. Never-before-seen footage shot...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the life of Jedediah Smith including his journey along the Colorado River, across Arizona, and into Spanish California, thus establishing the first transcontinental route across America
8) Sergio
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through historical film segments and re-creations, this documentary film presents Sergio Vieira de Mello's life and work with the United Nations around the world.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the stories of American men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq and the challenges they faced upon their return home
10) Rebirth
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A riveting journey into living history, an act of personal witness to one of the most profound events in American history and the healing that has come in its wake. REBIRTH follows the nearly ten-year transformation of five people whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001. The film simultaneously tracks, by multi-camera time-lapse photography, the minute-by-minute evolution of the space where the Twin Towers once rose. Both a singular...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II many Jewish children were sent out of occupied countries in search of safety. Chabannes, France, housed about 400 such refugees in a local chateau used as a school. This documentary presents the accounts of some of the students, teachers and townspeople of the efforts to protect the children in 1942 when the war came to Chabannes.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abomination, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse conformists. The violence of the system on its white citizens...
Publisher
The Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1,080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 306 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Professor Jonathan Steinberg uses individual lives to explain a great historical transformation. Examines the development of the modern world with a focus on the Industrial Revolution and its explosion of science and technology. Also examines the birth of modern democracy.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color, black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Narrates the remarkable journey of Hannah Senesh, a young Hungarian poet and diarist, paratrooper and resistance fighter. Told through Hannah's letters, diaries, poems, and the recollections of those who knew her, the film traces Hannah's life from childhood in Palestine to her daring WWII mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Narrated by Joan Allen.
16) Soaked in bleach
Publisher
MVDvisual
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary/docudrama revealing the events behind Kurt Cobain's death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to track down her missing husband only days before his deceased body was found at their Seattle home. Cobain's death was ruled a suicide by the police (a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound), but doubts have circulated for twenty years as to the legitimacy of this ruling, especially...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one of the most prolific and revered actors in American Cinema. He was also well known for his philanthropy; Newman's Own has given more than four hundred and thirty million dollars to charities around the world. Yet few know the gasoline-fueled passion that became so important in this complex, multifaceted man's makeup.
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 215 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In 1934 by Federal statute, The National Archives of the United States were created to be the nation's record keeper. Its mission is unique--to serve American democracy by preserving and making available to the people the permanently valuable records of the U.S. Government. These include famous documents, and billions of pages of textual materials, more than 20 million still pictures and 365,000 reels of motion picture film and 110,000 video recordings,...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 147 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Taught by acclaimed linguist, author, and Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University, Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage dispels the cloud of confusion that clings to English, giving you a crystal-clear view of why we use it the way we do and where it fits into the diverse languages of the world. After completing these 24 lectures, you will think about how you use English in a new way, listen to others with discernment and fascination,...
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (some color) ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually dependent on events in the West. Although often overlooked, the western theatre saw some of the conflict's bloodiest encounters, such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga, and featured iconic leaders.
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