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It's the spring of 1864, and times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for thirteen-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn't heard from his father, a sergeant in the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow his passion--to make up adventure stories in the style of Alexandre Dumas. But the Civil War keeps getting in his way....
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1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"The story of Robert Jordan (Cooper), an American demolition expert who lends his abilities to the anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors that includes the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiroff), and the lovely, innocent Maria (Bergman). As danger mounts, Robert and Maria develop a closeness that blossoms into one of the screen's greatest love stories."--Container....
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3 videodiscs (approximately 293 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Through personal letters, official reports and diaries, viewers will come to understand not only the battle but also the political and personal reasons why our nation took up arms. Includes: period photography, music, re-enactments and more.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 350 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"It was the gravest crisis in American history. For four bitter years, Union and Confederate troops battled to determine the fate of a divided nation, with the outcome unclear until the very end. THE LAST DAYS OF THE CIVIL WAR explores this critical period through five original programs. April 1865: The Month That Saved America, based on Jay Winik's bestselling book, chronicles the remarkable succession of events leading from the fall of Richmond...
7) Shenandoah
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A Virginia farmer during the Civil War refuses to support either the Confederacy or the Union until his son is taken prisoner and, seeing the horrors of war first-hand, he is forced at last to take his stand.
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Arabic
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Talal Derki returned to his Syrian homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Osama and his brother Ayman both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems content to follow the...
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1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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For two years the Civil War has been elsewhere. Now Confederate forces are nearby, looting and burning. It is time to fight back, Jess Birdwell's neighbors insist. Yet Birdwell, a Quaker, knows there must be a better way to settle things.
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Shirley Temple volume 9
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1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Only a plea to President Lincoln can help when the father of a plantation girl is arrested and charged with espionage against the Yankees.
13) Major Dundee
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1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A Union major late in the Civil War takes it upon himself to punish a band of Apaches who murdered a ranch family and fled into Mexico. Being short of troops he uses Confederate prisoners, ex-slaves and criminals to accomplish his goal.
14) Gettysburg
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1 videodisc (254 min.) : sound (stereo), color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Civil War drama depicting the events and personal struggles of the Union and Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
15) The general
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1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved, an engineer sets out to win the Civil War single handedly with the help of his cherished locomotive. The film simltaneously comic and historically accurate in its details.
16) Rio Lobo
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
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1 videodisc (58 min.): sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Spain, 1936: right-wing military officers led by General Franco (and supported by Hitler and Mussolini) attempt to overthrow the newly elected, democratic government. In response, nearly 80 American women joined the Good Fight - volunteering, in defiance of the US government, to help fight the Fascists in what would become the Spanish Civil War...16 of these brave and idealistic nurses, writers and journalists share stories of courage and commitment...
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A simple Southern girl is thrown into adulthood when she marries a Civil War veteran haunted by nightmares of the war. Years later she looks back on the events of a life filled with drama, pain, joy, hardship and triumph.
19) Blood diamond
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1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
20) Robert E. Lee
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. This film examines the life and reputation of the general, whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy, and who was elevated to almost god-like status by his admirers after his death.
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