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1) Night
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast, 12 Years a Slave is both an unflinching account of slavery in American history...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
4) Hero
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
With supernatural skill and no fear a nameless soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat.
5) The Patriot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
6) Glory
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. ; distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Clips from noir classics and little-known gems, plus interviews with modern noir aficionados like directors Christopher Nolan and Frank Miller, writers James Ellroy and Brian Helgeland and others shape this multifaceted exploration of the movie style that grew out of the hard realities of post-World War II life." --container.
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 6
Publisher
Last Gasp
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The sixth volume in the "Barefoot Gen" series, this is the powerful, tragic story of the bombing of Hiroshima, seen through the eyes of the artist as a young boy growing up in Japan. Focusing not only on the effects of the bombing, Barefoot Gen also examines the ethical dilemmas faced by a peace-loving family in a highly militarized culture
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"It's been seven long years since his people last tasted freedom. So when Cuban-born expatriate Tony Fenner finally returns to Havana, he joins the Organization, a small band of revolutionaries dedicated to ending the tyrannical rule of President Gerardo Machado. Aided by fellow rebel China Valdes, Fenner proceeds with his audacious master plan: to execute the head of the senate and then assassinate all of Cuba's leaders at his well-attended state...
11) Hidden agenda
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth-- which they soon discover to be contained in an audio tape which the man had with him, exposing political manipulations at the highest levels of government. But such underlying agendas require careful considerations to avoid worse things than murder.
13) Charlotte Gray
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
It's World War II and Charlotte has been trained to be an undercover courier for England. She straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy, France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Once behind enemy lines, she keeps secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Gettysburg (254 min.): "... the gripping saga of the tactics, command errors and sacrifices behind the bloodiest battle ever fought on U.S. soil."--Container.
Gods and generals (219 min.): "... reveals the spirited allegiances and fierce combat of earlier Civil War struggles, framing its tale with the fateful clashes of Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville."--Container.
19) John Adams
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2008
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.
20) Elizabeth
Author
Publisher
PolyGram Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Recounts the intrigues and intricacies of court life during the tumultuous early years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
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