Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: The story of Henry Fleming and his grappling with fear and courage as a Union Army recruit during the Civil War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2003

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

Summary: Over the years Tsar Nicholas cannot satisfy the needs of the people or prevent Russia's entry into World War I, and the Empress falls under the spell of the evil monk, Rasputin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video 1999

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

Summary: Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Haras' Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GON RATED G

Summary: Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th Century, and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Amazing 2007

Summary: It is a time of both splendor and despair for the deeply divided French nation where the self-serving King Louis XIV enjoys the riches of the world while his people starve. Believing he is all-powerful, Louis fears no one -- except the one person who could bring an end to his absolute power: the man he condemned to wear an iron mask and be imprisoned for life. But when the king's selfish...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAN

Summary: Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War and becomes a patriot, fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JOH

Summary: A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Rio 2005

Summary: In this Civil War tale, a cattle-driver sells his herd to the Yankees, then is kidnapped by a rebel who wants him to steal cattle for the South. Includes original theatrical trailer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999

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

Summary: William Wallace is a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRA RATED R

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Brave 2000

Summary: During the Mexican Revolution of 1866, two American adventurers sign up to escort a carriage from the palace of Emperor Maximilian I in Mexico City to the seaport of Vera Cruz. Aboard the carriage is a beautiful French countess and a treasure of three million dollars in gold coins. Includes original theatrical trailer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: During the American Civil War, three men seek hidden loot. With greed as their sole motivation, they overcome anything that gets in their way--including each other. Very violent and drawn out western.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1998

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

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

Summary: Tells the story of the 14-year-old ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France. Marie Antoinette has became one of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria. And how the young woman must grow up in front of the entire country of France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie We 2002

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

Summary: "In the late '60s, a changing social and political climate inspired a new generation to create a lifestyle outside the mainstream. Twenty-two year-old Arlo's journey to find a place for himself and his music includes a visit to his dying father in the hospital, gigs in New York and romps with his friends Alice and Ray, who run a small restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And when an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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

Summary: Two competing lawyer join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Philadelphia 2004

Summary: A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Patriot 2000

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAT RATED R

Summary: Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian reporter on his first overseas assignment, is befriended by a Eurasian cameraman, Billy Kwan, with connections in high places. Hamilton soon gains an entree to Indonesian Communist Party leaders, as well as insight into Jakarta's grim realities on the eve of a major political upheaval.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video and Turner Entertainment Co. 1997

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

Summary: A young Tristan sees his parents killed by the tyrannical Irish, who ruled over a fractured Britain after the Roman occupation. Tristan is taken in by Marke, who rules one of the British tribes. Tristan grows up to be a young prince and a mighty warrior. He's believed slain in battle and given a royal funeral on a burning boat set out to sea. But the fire goes out and Tristan washes ashore on...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: John and Jen are journalists who are a newly married couple. Marley is the adopted puppy that no one wants, a high-strung lab who is virtually untrainable. Marley shreds cushions, destroys floors and walls and most everything in between. Instead of taking him to the pound, they love their dog and he faithfully loves them in return. John and Jen eventually have three children and Jen gives up...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MAR

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

Summary: "As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

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

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

Summary: ... shows a rather different side of Moses, the Stone Age and the Roman Empire - in which Brooks is a stand-up philosopher playing Caesar's Palace. Next, the truth is finally told about the Spanish Inquisition in a splashy production number featuring song-and-dance monks and swimming nuns ... It's history as you've never known it - completely irreverent and positively hilarious. -- Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie History 1981