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1) Possession
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life and work. Despite her skepticism, the two begin to investigate,...
4) Lorna Doone
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Retells the high adventure and romantic love story, set in late seventeenth-century England, about Lorna, the granddaughter of the head of a nobly-born family of robbers and outlaws, who falls in love with John Ridd, a man intent on avenging his father's death upon the Doone clan.
Series
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[c2002.]
Language
English
Description
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davey Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russell fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and partake in the last stand at the Alamo.
8) The basket
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A picturesque story of the landscapes through the territory of the human heart. A Pacific Northwest logging community in 1918 struggles to come to terms with the pain and prejudice of wartime America. Weaving an unlikely thread of forbidden love, racial tension, German opera lessons and a new game called basketball.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A young man comes of age and decides to avenge the brutal murder of his parents. In a world threatened by war, and finding he has impressive combat skills, he finds the opportunity he is looking for in the elite fighting force of the infamous Musketeers. After years of disgrace, he reunites the group and brings them back to their previous glory. Along his journey, he helps the Queen of France and finds love.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
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Description
Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment.
13) Shining through
Publisher
FoxVideo
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
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Description
During World War II a secretary from Queens convinces her boss, a Colonel in American intelligence, to let her go undercover behind enemy lines in Germany.
14) Gladiator
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A Roman general is reduced to slavery as a gladiator when he suspects the new emperor of killing the beloved old emperor to gain power prematurely.
15) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Czarist Russia, 1897 - war and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But, both Yury and Lara are haunted - he by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
16) Night crossing
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
This British film is a true story of two families' escape from East Berlin via hot air balloon.
18) The war lord
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Chrysagon, an 11th century Norman knight and war lord is given command of a Druid peasant village. Battling enemies from the North and from his own ranks the lonely warrior is enamored of Bromwyn, engaged to the son of the tribe's chieftain. Under the influence of a plotting brother he takes advantage of an ancient law permitting nobility the right of first night with any bride. Captivated, he refuses to give Bromwyn up at dawn, and the stage is set...
19) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A film about the Russian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a doctor/poet. Doctor Zhivago sees his life torn apart by the Revolution and the alterations also affect the lives of many around him, including the gentle woman he marries and the fascinating other woman he cannot forget.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
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Formats
Description
An epic story of the South's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. How Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in...
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