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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, in over 8,000 feet deep water, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Esteban works hard and eventually gets enough money to buy a hacienda and become a local patriarch. He becomes very conservative and is feared by his workers.
A hauntingly romantic epic tale spanning three generations of the Trueba family. At its core is the stormy, yet passionate relationship between the supernaturally gifted Clara and her controlling husband Esteban, who resists change both politically and personally.
8) Bella
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After being fired from her job as a waitress, a woman spends the day going around New York City getting to know a chef from the restaurant who was formerly a professional soccer player.
10) Persuasion
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off an engagement to Capt. Wentworth, but tensions are resumed when they meet again eight years later.
11) The lost city
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy nightclub owner in 1950s Havana struggles to keep his family together while his country's dictator led government is threatened with revolution.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
13) Whale rider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Whangara people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But then a young mother dies in childbirth along with her newborn male son. His twin sister survives and the little girl, Pai, is brought up by her grandparents. Learning the skills of chiefdom from her uncle, Pai...
14) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A boy from a working class miner's family secretly begins taking ballet classes.
15) Capote
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, explores the events behind the creation of Truman Capote's book "In cold blood" when he went to a small Kansas town to write an article for the New Yorker on a multiple murder.
18) Bobby
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the horrible events unfold and wonder what might have been....
19) Manor house
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating look at the grand and grueling British class system of the early 1900s. Another adventure in placing contemporary people into the lifestyle of a previous historical era."
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
After their good-for-nothing father dies and their mother leaves to be with the man she really loves, brothers Jack, Barry and Patrick are left with only each other as they struggle with their relationships. Married Jack is tempted to have an affair; Patrick isn't sure his fiancee is 'the one'; and Barry can't deal with the fact that he is actually falling in love.
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