Arts and Entertainment Network.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Language
English
Description
No one suspected that playboy Congressman Charlie Wilson and his partner Gust Avrakotos, an agressive CIA agent, would mastermind the covert arming of the Afghan Mujahideen. Together they engineered what became one of the largest and most successful campaigns in CIA history. Profiles the unorthodox alliance, and chronicles the epic journey the two men undertook to guarantee the success of their "freedom fighters." Reveals the full story behind the...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Archival footage and expert interviews highlight the history of trains, from the days of the Iron Horse to modern high-speed trains. Separate episodes focus on trains and the economy, the construction of railroads, trains in war, and the evolution of the train.
23) Founding fathers
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Uses the words and writings of the men who forged the United States to offer an intimate view of pivotal events and personalities in the creation of the nation.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian detective returns in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Set amid the un paralleled elegance of the Art Deco era, these beautifully remastered adaptations star David Suchet as the peerless Hercule Poirot.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Shows the history of toys and games from ancient civilizations to the present. From hand-crafted toys to manufactured toys. Includes modern toy safety concerns. Child psychology experts also show how toys and games relate to our development from child to adult and how we grow as humans as well. Includes toys from ancient civilizations through the virtual reality toys of modern day.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home.
28) Jane Eyre
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
29) Crusades
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Join Terry Jones for a chronicle of the Crusades.
32) Pearl Harbor
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group
Pub. Date
2001, c1996
Language
English
Description
Volume one documents the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Volume two examines the life of Chester Nimitz, fleet admiral and leader of the campaign in the Central Pacific during World War II.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2002, c1994
Language
English
Description
Uses newsreels, diaries, and interviews with survivors to chronicle the history of Titanic and its fateful maiden voyage. Also features the deep-sea expedition to unearth the secrets of Titanic and the pop-culture phenomenon the tragedy has become.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.