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Documentary films. Documentary television programs. Historical fiction. Historical reenactments (Motion pictures) Historical reenactments (Television programs) Nonfiction films. Nonfiction television programs. Television mini-series. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: Recounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually dependent on events in the West. Although often overlooked, the western theatre saw some of the conflict's bloodiest encounters, such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga, and featured iconic leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVSummary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BISSummary: The legend of King Arthur is one of the most evocative stories in British mythology. We think of the romantic King, with his beautiful wife Guinivere by his side and the trusty sword Excalibur in his hand. The truth, we discover, is very different. The story was written in the medieval period but it was set hundreds of years earlier, in the Dark Ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTSummary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VIVSummary: "What happened at Dunkirk in May 1940 must rank as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. A third of a million British soldiers were facing annihilation but just days later the majority had been rescued and Churchill had delivered his most famous speech. Vowing never to surrender. This gripping drama/documentary from the BBC offices a unique perspective and a true understanding of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUNSummary: A film that seamlessly blends mission audio from Apollo 11's historic journey featuring conversations among Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins with new footage, NASA archive, and stunning CGI to recreate the first moon landing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EIGSummary: War game: A dramatization of the possible effects of nuclear warfare on Great Britain. Explores the physical damage effects, the psychological effects on the survivors, the societal logic for the existence of nuclear arms, and the attempts to understand how the balance of power keeps atomic weapons in check.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARSummary: Vikings: the real warriors. "Discover exciting new insights as historian Neil Oliver digs for clues. You'll travel to archaeological sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where Norsemen launch expeditions and raids. Watch in amazement as the warriors settle Britain, Iceland and Greenland and transform themselves from illiterate pagans into Christian farmers, statesmen and kings--all in less than...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VIKSummary: "With historic reenactments, expert interviews, and first-hand accounts, learn about the people, bloody wars, and undenieable truths that have brought us up from slavery to emancipation road on the march to freedom"--container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MARBrolin, Josh
Summary: Presents the rise of civilization, featuring key historical events presented through live-action re-enactments and computer-generated animation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 909 MANSummary: Three modern families were chosen to learn to survive as if the year is 1883. Using the tools and technology of that time they must make difficult choices and cope with the consequences in the Montana wilderness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Video 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FROSummary: Queen Elizabeth's realm is divided, politically unstable and dangerous. We see her troubled reign through the eyes of her spymasters, Willian and Robert Cecil, a father and son team in charge of counter terrorism and the protection of the fragile life of the one woman on whom everything depends. Looks at the entrapment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the capture and escape of Catholic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV QUEEnrigue, Alvaro
Summary: "Hernán Cortés entra en Mehxicoh-Tenoxtitlan con sus nueve capitanes, sus dos traductores -el fraile Aguilar y Malinalli, intérprete y amante-, su tropa y sus caballos. Allí los agasaja con una comida la princesa Atotoxtli, hermana y esposa de Moctezuma, acompañada por los sacerdotes, y más adelante el propio emperador Moctezuma recibirá al caudillo Cortés. Unos no han visto jamás en su vida...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Anagrama 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC ENRPearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane)
Summary: "From the author of the "jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People) and international bestseller Dear Mrs. Bird, a new charming and uplifting novel set in London during World War II about a plucky aspiring journalist. London, November 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Henrietta Bird from Woman's Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEASegovia, Sofía
Summary: En Linares, al norte del país, con la revolución mexicana como telón de fondo. Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé misterioso y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conversar y cuidar al...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH SEGCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: Una novela inolvidable ambientada en el Berlín de la primavera de 1939, la Cuba pre- y postrevolucionaria y el Nueva York después del 11 de septiembre. Antes de que todo se desmoronara, Hannah Rosenthal y sus padres tenían una vida encantadora. Su familia, una de las más distinguidas en los altos círculos sociales berlineses, era admirada por amigos y vecinos. Ahora en 1939, Berlín se ha teñido...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Español 2016