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 | 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... |
 | 12 Angry Men [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Baseball - A Film by Ken Burns [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Ken Burns tops himself with this epic of American history, told in "nine innings," with a skilled narration by John Chancellor and the voices of Paul Newman, Jason Robards, Billy Crystal, and other stars. The series spans 150 years, starting with the myth-debunking tale of baseba... |
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Description: The late, great Paul Winfield tackles the role of his career in King, an NBC miniseries originally broadcast over three nights in February 1978. Demonstrating a deeply inspired commitment to his performance as civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Winfield's voice and ... |
 | 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,... |
 | Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Miss Evers Boys [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Laurence Fishburne helped shepherd this Emmy Award-winning exposé from American medical history books to the small screen. Anchored in the 1973 Senate inquiry into the infamous Tuskegee Study, the film uses a flashback structure to take us back 40 years as Nurse Eunice Evers (pl... |
 | Don't Look Back: Story of Leroy Satchel Paige [VHS] [Read More ...]
When Jesse stumbles on a drug deal gone bad, he finds himself on the run with a suitcase full of money and its previous owners in hot pursuit. They'll kill anything and anybody that gets in their way-including Jesse's friends and lovers. |
![]() | Lincoln: The Pivotal Year 1863 [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Mississippi, America: A Testimony of Persistence and Courage...to Win the Right to Vote (Civil Rights Movement) (PBS Video) [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: A central episode in America's civil rights movement, the 1964 "Freedom Summer" voter-registration drives in Mississippi are recounted in this PBS-produced video narrated by noted actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. To battle entrenched power in Mississippi, a state that stubbornly ... |
 | Freedom Road [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | 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 ... |
 | Miss Evers Boys [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Laurence Fishburne helped shepherd this Emmy Award-winning exposé from American medical history books to the small screen. Anchored in the 1973 Senate inquiry into the infamous Tuskegee Study, the film uses a flashback structure to take us back 40 years as Nurse Eunice Evers (pl... |
