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Publisher
Upper Valley Arts
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color/black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A refuge...a community...an idea...Vermont evokes images of bucolic farms, maple leaves and rural isolation. But beneath the surface of the state's unique story are labor and racial struggles, eugenics experiments, and spirited debates over land use, energy and gay marriage." -- From container
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 606 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Explores the insular world of high-stakes Danish politics and the press corps that covers it in instantaneous, relentless news cycles. Birgitte Nyborg becomes Prime Minister of Denmark through a political fluke and has to learn the ways of power, quickly. She's an altruistic public servant in an old boys club and must master the art of the deal overnight, manage her image and perform the impossible juggling act of maintaining a family life.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1972
Edition
Special 30th anniv. ed.; standard format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 283 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 songbook.
Language
English
Description
Musical numbers teach children about basic grammar, science, finance, multiplication, and American history and government.
6) Vice
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
How a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world.
The story of Dick Cheney, a Washington insider and bureaucrat, who George W. Bush picked to run with him in the 2000 election, representing the Republican Party. After winning the election, Dick Cheney acquired substantial power and began to reshape the United States, and the world, in ways that are still noticeable today.
Publisher
Fred Herman Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fictionalized account of Fred Tuttle, a retired Vermont dairy farmer, who decides to run for Congress. The director uses the residents of the town of Tunbridge, Vermont, and features the real Fred Tuttle.
8) President
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Robert Mugabe was removed from power, Zimbabwe military leaders promised they would not seize control for themselves but would ensure democracy in a national election. Against a backdrop of economic crisis, food shortages, and political violence, the stakes could not be higher. Working to defeat the ruling party, which has controlled Zimbabwe since independence, is the young and charismatic Nelson Chamisa, who draws comparisons to a young Nelson...
9) The Congress
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history and promise of the country's most important and least understood institutions. The film chronicles the personalities, events and issues that have animated the first 200 years of congress.
10) Fahrenheit 9/11
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prime Minister Robert Sutherland's committee, comprised of leading contingency planners and senior politicians, navigates the difficulties in overcoming a major national crisis.
12) No escape
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
How far will one man go to protect the ones he cares about most in the world? An intense international thriller, centers on an American businessman as he and his family settle into their new home in Southeast Asia. Suddenly finding themselves in the middle of a violent political uprising, they must frantically look for a safe escape as rebels mercilessly attack the city.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 995 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In her life, Elizabeth McCord has led many roles, as a CIA analyst, a professor, a wife, and a mother, but now, she leads America's foreign policy as Secretary of State. The sensitive nature of her work creates tension at home when she's forced to keep secrets from her husband Henry, recently reactivated as an intelligence asset. As tensions mount with Russia and chaos brews in the Middle East, Elizabeth answers directly to President Conrad Dalton....
Publisher
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 evidence cards (2-sided : col. ; 18 cm.)
Language
English
Description
"In the 2008 edition of this stunning multimedia presentation, filmed professionally in a studio before a live audience, San Francisco Bay Area architect Richard Gage (AIA) provides the myth-shattering scientific forensic evidence of the explosive controlled demolition of all 3 WTC high-rise buildings on September 11, 2001" -- Container.
15) The iron lady
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
"The film stars an unsurpassable Meryl Streep..."--New York Post
"...a clever and oddly touching entertainment."--Time Magazine
"Streep's is fascinating every...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (991 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When it comes to prisoner negotiations, international aid, and thwarting the next world war, look no further than U.S. Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord. Since joining the White House staff, she's seen her fair share of global threats, but her greatest challenges lie ahead. While she and her husband Henry must outsmart their own personal stalker, new enemies emerge both overseas and in the states. Working alongside President Conrad Dalton, Elizabeth...
17) Cocalero
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An Aymara Indian coca leaf grower named Evo Morales travels through the Andes and Amazon in jeans and sneakers, leading a historic bid to become Bolivia's first indigenous president. The filmmakers capture the intimate moments and Morales' rise to power.
18) The brink
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows Steve Bannon through the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, shedding light on his efforts to mobilize and unify far-right parties in order to win seats in the May 2019 European Parliamentary elections. Keen manipulator of the press and gifted self-promoter, Bannon continues to draw headlines and protests wherever he goes, feeding the powerful myth on which his survival relies.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Falcone obsessively targets the Mafia in Sicily when he uncovers mob ties to drug-dealing, pay-offs, and murder. When a gadfather decides to expose the inner workings of the multi-family commission, the massive trial threatens all their lives.
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