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Biographical television programs. Documentary television programs. Drama. Fiction television programs. Historical television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Television mini-series. Television programs for the hearing impaired. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: A trip back home to Glasgow presents James with a dilemma that will mean choosing between the people he loves. As Helen and James navigate their feelings for one another, Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs. Hall are also forced to consider their places in the world, while James must decide between supporting his family or following his heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ALLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV ALLSummary: This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Xenon Pictures 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEASummary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOSummary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROSummary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MeSummary: The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009