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1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1703 Sarah Cloyce, survivor of the Salem witchcraft hysteria presents her story to a special commission empowered to investigate the trials for witchcraft. The events leading to the trials and the suffering they caused are told in flashback fashion.
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1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the incredible story of one of the most significant finds in early Christian history. Combines dramatic recreations and insightful analysis by the world's foremost experts to answer the question: Is the Gospel of Judas real?
3) Mongol
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Mongolian
Description
Delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. Follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny. Shows the future conqueror and revealing him not as the evil brute, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader.
4) Wah-wah
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the experiences of actor/director Richard E. Grant during the late 1960s in the British colonial community in Swaziland as that country was becoming independent. Portrays a community occupied with booze and adultery in an attempt to stave off boredom. Follows the divorce of young Ralphie's parents and his adjustment when he returns from boarding school two years later to find that his alcoholic father has married an American stewardess. Shows...
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1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
6) Salomé
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1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Salomé fue la hija del Rey Herodes que pidió por despecho la cabeza de San Juan Bautista. Carlos Saura recrea esta historia bíblica volviendo al estilo de sus primeras películas, que son en realidad cuadros musicales. Aída Gómez, directora del Ballet Nacional de España entre 1998 y 2001, compone la coreografía y encarna a la propia Salomé. Su baile es el encargado de narrar la historia de esta joven ambiciosa.
Biblical story of lust, ambition,...
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young minister Charles Loring Brace founded the Children's Aid Society, sending orphans west to begin new lives with farm families. Until 1929, Brace's Society and other charities sent more than 150,000 neglected children by train to 47 states.
8) Dive bomber
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1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A new flight surgeon and a Navy pilot overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of altitude sickness which causes blackouts at high altitude. The real stars of the film are the pre-World War II Navy aircraft as well as the USS Enterprise featured in full color.
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1 videodisc (approximately 186 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
10) Wyatt Earp
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2 videodiscs (approximately 190 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The biography of the legendary Wyatt Earp, including the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral.
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1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and out thought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
13) Spartacus
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1 videodisc (196 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
14) Goya's ghosts
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1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being...
15) Miss Potter
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
16) One man's hero
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the Saint Patrick Battalion, a group of soldiers enlisted from Ireland to fight in the Mexican War. When they are treated harshly for their religious convictions, they escape across the border into the enemy territory of Mexico, where they must convince a Mexican rebel leader to let them fight against the U.S. so they can protect their beliefs.
17) Rosewood
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the 1923 razing of a black town in Florida, many of its people murdered over a lie. But some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people.
18) Casanova
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1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good graces, and soon finds out she is engaged to Papprizzio, a man...
19) W
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States, from his beginnings as a privileged alcoholic to his becoming a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How Christianity turned his life around, how he met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq are featured.
20) Elizabeth
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naïve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals, and denying her own desires for the good of her country.
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