Joseph Vitarelli
2) John Adams
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
While the newly-formed United States was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for the new country. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership shaped the earliest years of the U.S. while also being a moving...
3) Revelations
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Harvard professor Dr. Richard Massey and Sister Josepha Montafiore are unlikely partners drawn into a deepening mystery when they discover evidence that the world, as predicted by The Book of Revelations, has reached The End of Days.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two make...
5) Boycott
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1955 in the deep south, Rosa Parks, a single black woman on a public bus, is arrested when she chooses a "whites only" seat. Her action and the reaction of the authorities helps birth the modern civil rights movement in the United States, and makes her an inspiring icon and lodestone to all involved with the struggle for equality, including a young Martin Luther King.
6) John Adams
Publisher
[Distributed by HBO Video]
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers - General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson - in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Tells the story Vivien Thomas, an African American determined to make something of himself during the time of segregation, and his relationship with Alfred Blalock, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thomas, initially hired as a janitor, was soon promoted by Blalock to learn the complexities of surgery, eventually becoming a trainer of novice surgeons and a major force in the advancement of African Americans in medicine.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Kit is a young girl living in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the struggles of the Great Depression. She enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery that took place in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure. Her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.
