Summary: Tells the story of former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump, two powerful men whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COMSummary: 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 ROOEllis, Aunjanue
Summary: Dreaming of escaping and returning to her African home, slave Aminata is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, when she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOOSummary: A strong-willed detective in her mid-thirties Helen Weeks is drawn into the two most testing and personal cases of her career, just as she begins her journey towards motherhood. Helen is never fazed by a challenge, but her tough exterior conceals a complex inner conflict. When the husband of an estranged school friend is accused of abduction, Helen must return to her hometown and confront her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSummary: Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WoCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WOL RATED NRSummary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013