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Series
Classic holiday DVD collection volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1938]
Language
English
Description
The timeworn Dickens' story about the old merchant Scrooge and how his own disappointments in life shape his view that both life and men are not worthy of his notice or concern.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers...
6) Dracula
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After a naive real estate agent succumbs to the will of the Count, the two head to London where the vampire hopes to stroll among respectable society by day and search for potential victims by night.
Series
Publisher
Castaways Pictures
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Thrown together at the outset of World War I, the spinster sister of a British missionary and the derelict captain of the launch, The African Queen, determine to pilot the boat down an unchartered river in an effort to destroy a German gunboat which prevents invasion by British forces. Setting: German East Africa in 1914.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
日本語
Description
Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi,...
15) Make mine music
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A collection of 9 musical animated shorts. Includes two bonus cartoons (The band concert, Farmyard symphony) following the feature.
16) Melody time
Publisher
[Walt Disney Home Video]
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Classic Disney cartoons and songs interspersed with live action sequences.
17) Patton
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Wishing to show off his strength, bravery, and Yankee loyalty, Henry Flemming eagerly signs up to fight for the Union. Once in the heat of battle, though, he has a change of heart and quickly recedes from the line of duty. Later, feeling enormously guilty about his cowardice, Henry commits an act of true courageousness.
20) Mon oncle
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Français
Description
A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
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