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Series
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
He was a paper cup salesman who knew how to answer when opportunity knocked. His vision created the fast food industry as we know it today. Ray Kroc is the man behind McDonald's and its 25,000 restaurants worldwide. The sharp dressing salesman had already thought he'd found his niche when he switched from selling paper cups to peddling a mixing machine that could whip up five milkshakes at once. But on a visit to his biggest customer, he found his...
Series
Publisher
Kultur International
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This documentary portrays the legendary painter as she candidly reveals her warmth, humor, and practical wisdom. For the first time on camera, O'Keeffe openly discusses her work and inspirations taken from the haunting mountain deserts of New Mexico.
3) Gypsy heart
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Follow the unusual life of Omayra Amaya, a flamenco dancer in Boston. Included is film footage of Amaya's great aunt, the legendary flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya, as well as rare archival footage of Gypsies flamenco dancing in Spain.
Publisher
Artwork PBS
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access to the family and its archives, The Rockefellers explores the paradoxical lives of this fabled American dynasty. Using revealing home movies, archival footage and photographs, and interviews with eight Rockefellers, their colleagues and friends, this work paints a vivid portrait of four generations of the family.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Follow the Dixie Chicks, the top selling female band of all-time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the groups lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. Follow the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and make country music. At a time when the United States is fighting for democracy...
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the Red Baron, a biography of the World War I ace known as the Red Baron, who shot down eighty Allied planes before he was killed. In Lindbergh & the Spirit of St. Louis, tells about Charles Lindbergh's thirty-three hour flight from New York to Paris on May 10, 1927. In Daredevil pilots, take a trip back to the first cross-country daredevil pilots of the U.S. Air Mail Service. Includes rare, historic footage.
8) Annie Oakley
Series
Wild west volume 1
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever known. Annie Oakley thrilled audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her daring shooting feats. Over time she became an American legend.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of John Lennon's evolution from beloved Beatle to an outspoken artist and activist to iconic inspiration for peace, and how, in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in American history, Lennon stood his ground, refused to be silenced and courageously won his battle with the U.S. Government.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In a countryside full of ancient ruins, whispers of hidden treasure and legends of the Knights Templar and Holy Grail have swirled around the old Roman church at Rennes-le-Chateau. A French priest found a mysterious secret that is revealed here.
14) Paul Newman
Series
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Paul Newman's striking good looks and passionate intensity have come to define the leading man but Hollywood is just one part of his varied and captivating life.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life story of Sister Rose Therling, a Domincan nun with the courage, toughness, and passion to stand up for what she believed in. Her work had a direct bearing on the historic Vatican II Council. Includes outtakes, interviews, and more.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Recount the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Tesla's surprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings.
19) Mozart
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
He was vulgar, extravagant and bawdy. But inside this childish man lived history's greatest musical genius. As a toddler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical gifts made him the darling of Europe's highest courts. But as a man, his rebellion against a domineering father led him to a life of gambling, debt and excess. A master whose work would revolutionize nearly every area of music, Mozart's sudden death at age 35 is considered by many to be the greatest...
Series
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Towering over his countrymen, literally and figuratively, he virtually single-handedly modernized his immense nation. From 1696 to 1725, he ruled Russia with an iron hand, and his life and legacy have captivated generation after generation ever since.