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1) True women
Language
English
Description
A powerful, moving story about two fearless women, of friendship, romance, courage and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia, move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas plains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes & the leading lady: Holmes and Watson foil a bombing plot directed at killing the Austro-Hungarian Emperor.
Sherlock Holmes and the incident at Victoria Falls: Someone is killed on Africa's Orient Express while Holmes is on his way to save a famous diamond. A passenger is the murderer and time is running out, putting all in danger.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The question on everyone's lips is finally answered as the hugely popular Sherlock returns in three brand new action-packed adventures. With the demise of Moriarty, Sherlock finds himself locked in another mind battle with the powerful Charles Augustus Magnussen, who is holding the secrets of the world at his fingertips. Once again the game is on for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson!
8) Broken trail
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abondoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
11) Dinosaur planet
Publisher
Discovery Channel Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Provides a dinosaur's-eye view of survival in this violent primordial world. White Tip's journey: Follow the desperate trials of a velociraptor cut off from her pack in the desert. Pod's travels: A pyroraptor is swept away in a tidal wave and washes ashore on an island populated by much smaller dinosaurs
12) Shōgun
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The story of a shipwrecked English navigator who becomes a samurai during a struggle for power by a Shogun and the Emperor in feudal Japan
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying...
14) Summer's lease
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2005, 1989
Language
English
Description
A family leases a Tuscan villa for vacation and becomes involved in finding the secrets of the owner
Special features include: bios of John Gielgud and John Mortimer
15) Empire Falls
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life
16) Above and beyond
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1940 German U-boats destroy new shipments of British aircraft as quickly as the U.S. factories supply them. The Royal Air Force comes up with a bold new plan--engage the new planes using Newfoundland as its base
17) 1915
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[ 2006]
Language
English
Description
A classic Australian World War I saga, this miniseries captures the hopes and heartaches of innocent country boys as they embark on the greatest and worst adventure of their lives, when they face the filthy deprivations and shocking savagery of trench warfare.
19) Fall of eagles
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
2006, c1974
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the fall of the three great ruling houses of Europe in the latter half of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries, the Hapzburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Romanovs of Russia, and the Hohenzollerns of Germany
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other
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