 | Stephen King's The Stand [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: After a government-spawned "superflu" wipes out more than 90 percent of the earth's population, the devastated survivors must decide whether to support or resist the advances of a mysterious stranger from way down South (heh-heh) who wishes to claim this new world order for himse... |
 | Stephen King's The Stand (Boxed Set) [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: After a government-spawned "superflu" wipes out more than 90 percent of the earth's population, the devastated survivors must decide whether to support or resist the advances of a mysterious stranger from way down South (heh-heh) who wishes to claim this new world order for himse... |
 | My Name Is Bill W. [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Here's another example of TV giving James Woods the chance to stretch out from the intense-psycho roles he seems restricted to in too many of his movies. In My Name Is Bill W. he plays Bill Wilson, the overreaching businessman from the Roaring '20s who went on to found Alcoholics... |
 | Truman [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Gary Sinise is "Give 'em Hell" Harry, a simple man of the people who became one of America's greatest presidents. Through victory in the second World War and the beginning of the Cold War, through the birth of the United Nations and his decision to drop the first atomic bomb, Ha... |
 | The West, Vol. 08: Ghost Dance [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: When originally broadcast on PBS, The West was presented over eight nights, with the eighth and ninth installments combined into a two-hour finale. That final broadcast has been split in half for this video release, and the hourlong Volume 8, "Ghost Dance," covers the years 188... |
 | West: The People [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Following the formula established by executive producer Ken Burns with The Civil War, director Stephen Ives begins his epic PBS series The West by emphasizing that America's westward expansion is inextricable from the history of its native peoples. The first episode, "The People,... |
 | George Wallace [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Based on the book by Marshall Frady, this epic bio by John Frankenheimer stars Gary Sinise as one of the century's best candidates for true Aristotelian tragic status. The Aristotelian tragic protagonist is not an entirely bad man, but he has a fatal flaw. Wallace's flaw was not... |
 | The West, Vol. 09: One Sky Above Us [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Volume 9 of The West begins with the World Columbian Expedition of 1893, a colossal Chicago fair marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the New World, and effectively announcing the closure of the Western frontier. Historian Richard White observes that the closin... |
 | The West, Vol. 03: The Spec of the Future [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: After the bloody battles chronicled in volume 4 of The West, this volume (spanning the years 1868-74) recalls the continuing violence that shaped the new frontier, but focus on the transcontinental railroad gives this 84-minute episode an uplifting, more optimistic tone. Uniting ... |
