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Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Masada is an extraordinary place and an epic story. A seemingly impregnable mountain fortress built by King Herod, it rises from the Judean desert of Israel close by the Dead Sea. It's said that there, 2,000 years ago, a band of Jewish freedom fighters defied the might of the Roman legions for three years. How did they hold out against such odds? How did the Romans conduct a siege in such a hostile environment?
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Focuses on how events small and large are intrinsically linked to the exploration and innovation, leading Americans from the frontier to 21st century cities, from the Mississippi to the moon, from Jamestown to 9/11, up to present day. Moving through time and space linking key events, people, and locations, capturing the vast sweep of American history, and bringing viewers on a journey through the forces that shaped the destiny of America.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Civil War rages. The formidable Confederate army cannot match the Union's mastery of technology as railroads, supply lines, and the telegram become new weapons in a modern war. The transcontinental railroad unites the nation and transforms the heartland. Farmers settle the continent as their cattle replace wild buffalo as king of the plains. The cowboy becomes a new American icon. Viewers will be immersed in each moment as it happens.
8) Behind the scenes at Downton Abbey: the official backstage pass to the set, the actors and the drama
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The inside track on all aspects of the making of award-winning drama, Downton Abbey.
10) American genius
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The eight-part docudrama, reveals the competitive forces behind history's most remarkable races for innovation. From Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates to the Wright Brothers vs. Glen Curtiss, explores the rivalries, delving into the fierce power struggles, deceit, fluke timing and raw ambition out of which innovation was born. Bold reenactments are woven together with expert interviews to shed new perspective on the backstories of innovation that have shaped...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Henry VI, Parts I and II and Richard III tell the story of an exceptionally turbulent period in British history. These exhilarating and emotionally charged films feature some of Shakespeare's most eloquent and powerful language.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Featuring cutting-edge technology, unique archive footage, dramatic re-enactments, and firsthand interviews with men who were there, The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of the historic high-stakes air contest between the German Luftwaffe and the British RAF.
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Journey into a thrilling ancient world in this epic new series about history's bravest and most brutally fearsome warriors; Vikings. Ragnar, a would-be Viking chieftain, longs to fulfill his destiny as an explorer and conqueror, alongside his ambitious brother Rollo and loyal wife Lagertha. But as Ragnar leads daring raids in distant realms across the ocean, treacherous forces in his Norse homeland conspire against him.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Depicts country life in late nineteenth-century Oxfordshire through a young woman's experiences in the contrasting communities of Lark Rise, the small hamlet of her childhood, and Candleford, a progressive market town.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
America becomes a global superpower; the economy and population boom. In the jet age and the space age, pioneers conquer new frontiers and run headlong into the Cold War. The Challenger disaster and 9/11 are tragedies that try the nation's spirit. From the television to the credit card and the personal computer, technology drives America into the 21st century. Viewers experience each moment as it happens.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Trailblazing pioneers set out to conquer the West, but find the land already claimed. Wagon trains meet hardship on the road to California's gold. The steamboat ushers in a new era of commerce, industry, and unprecedented wealth. In the south, cotton is king but slavery fuels a growing divide. Violence flares across the territories and the election of Lincoln is a harbinger of war. It could be said that America was invented, not discovered.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It is 1935. Three years have passed, and as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution. As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. With help from the scheming Cynthia, Ralph faces the most pivotal year of his career. Alice's husband has followed her to India, and Aafrin's ascending career may be in jeopardy.
18) Salem: Season 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
SALEM returns with 13 episodes of a highly anticipated second season at the dawn of a witch war.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but Da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ever since Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, was a little girl, the English have wanted her country and her crown. As a teenager, Mary is sent to France to wed its next king to save herself and her people. Waiting at the French Court is the gorgeous Prince Francis, his illegitimate half-brother Sebastian, a king on the brink of madness, a scheming queen, and the seer Nostradamus with a devastating prophecy.
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