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1) Harriet
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of Americaѫs greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
2) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill is elected the new Prime Minister. It's up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect it from the most dangerous threat ever seen.
Language
English
Description
Meryl Streep portrays Margaret Thatcher, who became the first and only female Prime Minister of England. The Iron Lady is the surprisingly intimate journey of a "common" grocer's daughter whose social ambition and steel will propelled her to unprecedented power in a world dominated by men.
4) The Founder
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
5) Alias Grace
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 DVD videodiscs (272 minutes) : digital sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Based on the award-winning novel by Margaret Atwood and inspired by true events, Alias Grace tells the story of Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a young, poor Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who - along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan) - finds herself accused and convicted of the infamous 1843 double murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear (Paul Gross), and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin).
6) Chernobyl
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (approximately 321 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
7) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
8) Spencer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. This is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
An enthralling celebration of Queen, their music, and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and convention to become one of history's most beloved entertainers. Following Queen's meteoric rise, their revolutionary sound and Freddie's solo career, the film also chronicles the band's reunion, and one of the greatest performances in rock history.
10) First man
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind the first manned mission to the moon focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo II flight.
11) Bridge of spies
Language
English
Description
James Donovan (Tom Hanks) is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust himself into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on a nearly impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
12) Ford V Ferrari
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The remarkable true story of the visionary American car designer Carroll Shelby and the fearless British-born driver Ken Miles, who together battled corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
13) She said
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
14) Ferrari
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari and his wife built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.