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Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The moving romantic story of two lovers who create an intimate private world amidst the pomp and politics of the court of St. James. This epic miniseries shows us a Victoria that we have never seen before--not the staid and stately old matron cloaked in black--but a young, passionate, sensual Victoria who takes command of the throne and falls head over heels in love with the dashing German prince who will father her six children.
22) Ben-Hur
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this Biblical epic, Jewish nobleman Ben-Hur struggles against Roman tyranny in first-century Palestine.
Series
Mercy street volume Season 2
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the staff of a Civil War hospital placed in a former hotel.
24) Seven samurai
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
日本語
Description
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
25) Dresden
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the final weeks of World War II, a German nurse discovers a wounded British soldier hiding in the basement of a Dresden hospital and risks her life to help him recover.
26) The wind rises
Author
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Description
Dramatizes the life of Jiro Horikoshi as he designs modern fighter planes against the backdrop of Japan's national tragedies in the years between World War I and World War II.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A satirical, comedic drama, based on the occasional historical fact, about the rise of Catherine the Great. An idealistic romantic young girl, she arrives from Prussia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter hoping for love and sunshine and finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military, and get the court on her side.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ross Poldark rides again in a swashbuckling new adaptation of the hit series that helped launch Masterpiece in the 1970s. Captain Poldark is a redcoat who returns to Cornwall after the American Revolution and finds that his fighting days are far from over.
30) The crossing
Publisher
A and E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It is Dec. 17, 1776. Hounded by superior British forces, his army decimated by disease, desertion and lack of funds, General George Washington faces the unthinkable: he is losing the war for American Independence. A week later, on Christmas Eve, Washington will make one of the most courageous decisions in military history. Staking everything on a risky surprise attack against a garrison of battle-hardened Hessian mercenaries, Washington sets out across...
31) Belfast
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a boy growing up in the late 1960s in Belfast whose family must decide whether to stay or leave amid the social tumult.
32) Beirut
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Set during the time of the Lebanese Civil War, tells the story of a former American diplomat who returns to Beirut to rescue his friend who was taken hostage by a terrorist group.
33) Changeling
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the 1928 Wineville chicken coop murders, Christine Collins is incarcerated when she denies that the boy found by the police is her missing son, Walter.
34) Tulip fever
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the seventeenth century Holland, a wife of a wealthy merchant falls in love with an artist commissioned to paint her portrait, and the lovers decide to risk everything they have in the bubbling tulip market in the hopes of making a fortune and buildingtheir life together.
36) Emma
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A young gentlewoman's matchmaking schemes for herself and others cause upheaval in her English village.
37) Island at war
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
Publisher
Sixteen Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Ireland, 1920. Damien O'Donovan is leaving for London for an internship, until the dreaded Black and Tans attack his hurling mates, killing one for not speaking English. Thus sidetracked by the Irish War for Independence, Damien is convinced by his brother Teddy to throw his lot in with the IRA. Damien is a purist, an idealist, and therefore marked for a tragic destiny, while Teddy is a fatefully pragmatic politician. These differences between the...
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