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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
416 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
More than any other filmmaker in the history of the medium, Cecil B. DeMille mastered the art of the spectacle. This volume combines Vieira's texts on the historical events, and Presley's insights on her grandfather's films.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai with one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture, this version tells the story of the life of Moses. Once favored in the Pharaoh's bousehold, Moses turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom. Now celebrating its 55th anniversary, this film has been fully restored.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
This classic of Mexican cinema follows the adventures of six young men who leave their rural homes to join Pancho Villa's army. Together the men endure hardship, tragedy, and disillusionment for the cause of the Mexican Revolution.
7) Apocalypto
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Mayan
Description
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate. He is taken on a perilous journey to a world that is ruled by fear and oppression, where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate...
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (138 min.) : digital Dolby, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (154 min.) : color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Description
"Tom Cruise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Algren, who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up pledging himself to their cause. Ken Watanabe ... plays Katsumoto, a Samurai leader facing a vanishing way of life, whose destiny becomes intertwined with that of the American captain. Edward Zwick ... directs this sweeping and emotional epic tale of the birth of modern Japan." -- on back cover.
10) El Cid
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand...
11) Gandhi
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 191 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
12) Quo vadis
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about this situation, but she falls in love with Marcus anyway....
13) Intolerance
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (163 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to fellow man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (150 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Moses sets out to rise up against the Egyptian Pharaoh. He frees 600,000 slaves and they all journey across Egypt fighting deadly plagues. The epic tale of one man's daring courage to take on an empire.
15) Dune: Part 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Atreides, alongside Chani and the Fremen, seeks vengeance against the conspirators who destroyed his family, while grappling with the dilemma of choosing between his love for Chani and the fate of the universe. Amidst the turmoil caused by the destruction of House Atreides by House Harkonnen, Paul and his mother Lady Jessica integrate into Fremen society on Arrakis, where they confront suspicion and skepticism while fulfilling prophecies and...
16) Hawaii
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a New England farm boy who has decided that the Lord has commanded him to go to Hawaii in order to Christianize its inhabitants.
17) Oppenheimer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
19) Dune
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey that tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest...
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