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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
5) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
6) Lincoln
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
7) Texas Rising
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
Bringing to life the true story of how the people of Texas fought for freedom against the mighty Mexican military that had overtaken the Alamo. The legendary Texas Rangers assembled for the first time against General Santa Anna's massive military might. United under the leadership of Sam Houston and with the help of his ragtag army, they passionately battled for life and country and the Lone Star State.
8) Cruella
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, is a young grifter named Estella, a clever and creative girl determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella's flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Heilman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic...
Publisher
Rocky Mountain PBS
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
" ... examines the Colorado Chicano Movement during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Riveting first-hand accounts speak to the significant social issues of out time--empowerment, identity, racial conflict, civil rights and cultural pride."--Container.
10) Babylon
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Publisher
Rocky Mountain PBS
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"...explores the extraordinary history and heritage of Colorado's Latino culture from the 1500s to the 1940s--from the Aztecas and the Spanish Conquistadors to the 1846 U.S./Mexican War, from the rise of the migrant farm workers to the zoot suits riots, and everything in between"--Container.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
13) Amazing grace
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.
Series
Transformers volume 5
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving humanity's future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Considers the difference between black photographers who use the camera to define themselves, their people, and their culture and some white photographers who, historically, have demeaned African-Americans through racist imagery. A cornucopia of Americana that reveals deeply disturbing truths about the history of race relations while expressing joyous, life-affirming sentiments about the ability of artists and amateurs alike to assert their identity...
16) Gladiator
Language
English
Description
The army of Marcus Aurelius finally subdues the barbarian hordes but the aging emperor is eliminated by his treacherous son, Commodus who becomes the new emperor. A great general, Maximus, who was the late emperor's favorite makes the mistake of spurning Commodus. The insecure new emperor orders the execution of the popular general. The resourceful Maximus escapes this fate but reaches home too late; when he arrives, he finds his wife and son dead,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Season Four continues the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser as they try to make a home for themselves in colonial America. The Frasers in North Carolina are at another turning point in history, the edge of the American Revolution. Along the way, the Frasers cross paths with notorious pirate Stephen Bonnet in a fateful meeting that will haunt the family. Meanwhile, Brianna and Roger grow closer in the twentieth century but make a shocking discovery...
19) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
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.
Publisher
David Bowyer Productions
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The Durango and Silverton train: this incredible journey features the famous steam trains that power through the spectacular San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The Historic Mining Town: Nestled down in a pocket of the majestic San Juan Mountains sits the historic mining town of Silverton, Colorado. Enjoy the stories of its colorful locals, rich mining history, and the narrow gauge railroad that was nearly abandoned.