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Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Publication 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.
Series
Place to Call Home (TV series) volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia.
Publisher
National Geographic Video
Publication Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Relive an amazing tale of discovery and exploration as National Geographic brings to life the first crossing. Two hundred years after Lewis & Clark epic journey, go back in time and discover the adventure, danger, and beauty of the unmapped West.
6) Jane Eyre
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Publication Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Publisher
[distributed in the USA and Canada by] Warner Home Video
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Publisher
Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Publication Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An account of the historic WWII battle of Iwo Jima, recounted through interviews with nearly fifty participants and documented through war footage and photographs, including the celebrated image of the raising of the American flag photographed by Joe Rosenthal.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After Nazi Germany invades the British Channel Islands in the summer of 1940, occupiers and occupied settle into an uneasy coexistence. But when does cooperation become collaboration? What if passion meets restraint? Includes thirteen episodes.
14) The Civil War
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Publication Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An epic documentary about the American Civil War, by noted documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Publication 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...
19) Home fires
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of Women's Institute members in rural England during World War II.
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