Summary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMP

Summary: Nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was crowned King of Scots in the fourteenth century fights for freedom to defy an empire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROB

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Summary: Historical drama of the conflict between King Henry II of England and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine over Henry's successor to the British throne.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIO

Summary: Robin Hood attempts to save England from Prince John and the Sheriff of Rottingham, while also winning the heart of Maid Marian.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROB

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Robin 2006

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Summary: The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night of the long knives" and the rise of Nazism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAM

Summary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUB

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUB

Summary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALL

Summary: Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEC

Summary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAK

Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300

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Summary: Set in 1919 but based on a real incident from 1906. A coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside. Workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KAM

Summary: A presentation of William Shakespeare's chronicle play, Henry V, in which he attempted to present a full-length portrait of the ideal king in action, and used his loftiest rhetoric to this purpose.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Ambrose Video Publishing 2004

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

Mortensen, Viggo

Summary: During the nineteen sixties, a bouncer, whose nightclub closes for renovations, finds a temporary employment as a driver for black pianist Don Shirley going on a tour into the Deep South states.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Green 2018

Summary: "Germany 1958. In those years, "Auschwitz" was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible. Against the will of his immediate superior, young prosecutor Johann Radmann begins to examine the case of recently identified teacher who was a former Auschwitz guard. Radmann soon lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. He...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAB

Summary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Selma 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEL RATED PG-13

Summary: "It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIS

Hagen, Pal Sverre

Summary: Determined to prove a theory, explorer Thor Heyerdahl leads the Kon-Tiki expedition as he and his crew travel from South America and Polynesia on a raft made from balsa wood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KON
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KON

Summary: Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning masterpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANN

Summary: A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONE

Summary: A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ONE

Summary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUE

Summary: A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist films 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIP
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Summary: Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OTH

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Other 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OTH RATED PG-13

Summary: Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAN