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19941) Cross of iron
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Cross of Iron" follows a platoon of retreating German soldiers on the post-Stalingrad Eastern Front in 1943, as they are overrun in a Soviet armored assault and trapped behind enemy lines. Sgt. Steiner is a bitter but resourceful vet whose only concern is for his men. Captain Stransky is a smug wealthy Prussian aristocrat who yearns to win the Iron Cross and will stop at nothing--short of actually exposing himself to combat--to get it. During an...
19942) Zama
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town [in Asunción, Paraguay] in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King...
19943) Versailles of the dead: 1
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marie Antoinette is about to become queen of France. While en route to marry King Louis XVI, her carriage is attacked by bloodthirsty zombies and everybody dies, except for Albert, Marie's twin brother!"--Back cover.
19944) Les misérables
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
337 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth century France, a former convict tries to overcome his past and is asked to raise a prostitute's daughter, while being hounded by a policeman who vows to put him back behind bars.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Days before Christmas in turn-of-the-century Toronto, Detective William Murdoch is called to investigate a daring train robbery. When witnesses insist the culprit exhibited super-human abilities, Constable Crabtree realizes the robber bears a striking resemblance to the title character of his new graphic novel, Jumping Jack.
19946) True grit
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. The situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger joins the party.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (2,370 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. in box + 1 bonus videodisc (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Set in the mythical town of Medicine Bow, Wyoming in the 1890's, the show chronicled the lives and relationships of the people who came West and settled in the wild land.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1,254 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Relive the grand hopes, dreams, loves, and adventures of generations of residents in Centennial, Colorado - from their risky attempts to establish a settlement in 1795 through the politics and power plays of the twentieth century.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
19950) Roots
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (587 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (32 pages)
Language
English
Description
Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, that followed several generations in the lives of a slave family.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (7 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young girl fulfills her dreams in this video treatment of the acclaimed Pura Belpre' Award winner. -- Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule--that is, until the drum dream girl. When at last her dream-bright music was heard, it was decided everybody should be free to drum and dream. Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba's traditional...
19952) Green dragon
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who speaks English becomes a translator for the Marine.
19953) Portrait of desire
Author
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Desperate to get revenge on the man responsible for her parents' deaths, Jennifer Brewster is distracted by artist Nicholas Oglesby, and as their passion flares, so does a deadly scheme, threatening to destroy them both, in a romance set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and Seattle.
19954) Dances with Wolves
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (234 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sent to protect a U.S. outpost on the frontier, Lt. John Dunbar befriends the local Sioux Indians and must make a choice about how he wants to live his life as the U.S. Army threatens to push the Sioux out.
19955) Vice
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Dick Cheney, the forty-sixth vice president of the United States, and how he quietly became the most powerful man in the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
103 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elizabethan England is a time of superstition and strange goings on. If you have a problem, it's common to go to a witch for help. And Queen Elizabeth I is no different... When Daisy -- a precocious young witch -- learns of the death of the Queen's Royal Witch, she flies to London to audition as her replacement. But Daisy is from a poor family, and they don't let just anyone into the Royal Court. The only way into the palace is to take a job as a...
19957) Killing Reagan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at John Hinckley Jr.'s 1981 assassination attempt against U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
19958) Ethel & Ernest
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life and times of two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
19959) Richard the Lionheart
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The aging King Henry II has chosen his son Richard to lead England in the coming war against France. To test Richard's loyalty, honor and skill, Henry sends him to a hellish prison in which the captives must fight a never-ending stream of enemies in order to survive. As Richard overcomes each new challenger, his strength, ingenuity and character are proven, and the legend of Richard the Lionheart is born.
Author
Pub. Date
copyright2016.
Physical Desc
81 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The chief matriarch is dying. Drawing her last breath, she declares a contest: let fate decide the one worthy to rule. Fifty souls are summoned in the night; fifty souls bound to the same fate. But this is no ordinary trial... And so begins the first task. This supernatural historical fantasy is the first in an epic trilogy.
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