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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams; and railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Going beyond...
63) Arcadia: a drama
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Pub. Date
p2009
Description
Did Lord Byron kill an obsure English poet in a duel? Was Fermat's Theorem first solved by a 13-year-old in 1809? Part detective story, part love story, and part comedy of manners, Arcadia is also a crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature and chaos theory, leapfrogging across 200 years in the life of an eccentric aristocratic family.
64) Black robe
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Pub. Date
2001
Description
In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as the expedition faces the elements and hostile Indians.
Pub. Date
c.2005
Description
Young Pip meets a desperate convict named Magwitch in a graveyard. Soon afterward, Pip is summoned by the wealthy, eccentric recluse Miss Havisham to play with her beautiful but cruel ward, Estrella. As Pip journeys toward young manhood, it seems he has "expectations" of great wealth. But who is the source of his mysterious fortune?
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The story of Prince William and Kate Middleton, from the moment they met at the University of St. Andrews to the intense media attention surrounding their storybook romance. They've charmed the world with their romantic love affair, engagement, and eagerly awaited royal wedding. How did Kate Middleton, an ordinary British girl, come to be Prince William's intended? Over an 8-year courtship, her warmth, humor, and grace under pressure convinced him...
68) The wrong man
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.
73) My Boy Jack
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the imminent war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in losing her only son to the war. How will the great writer,...
74) Julius Caesar
Pub. Date
1953
Description
An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The taming of the shrew: "Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew tells the tale of the sharp-tongued Kate, who must marry before her younger sister, Bianca, is allowed to find a suitor. Undaunted by her waspish reputation Petruchio attempts to woo the not-so-fair maiden, but is faced with a tirade of poisonous insults"--Container
Twelfth night: "One of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night was 'blissfully reborn' (The Daily Telegraph) for...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
President Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon, a banjo-playing Southerner, foiled repeated attempts on the President's life and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War. This biographical dramatization is filmed using a combination of real Civil War photos and green screen, a technique Director Salvador Litvak calls CineCollage, bringing the story of America's Greatest President to life!