Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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

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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Summary: 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

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

Summary: Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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

Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: 1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him, a thirteen-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his family, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Relativity 2015

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

Summary: Larry is a small town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue the woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big corporation corruption trial in Chicago. The agents, it turns out, are found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008

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

Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Summary: In a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border, a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive during the Civil War, in a place without rules.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000

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Summary: In 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Jake and Jack Bull join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. They are aided by unusual ally, Holt, who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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