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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 405 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters. "Animal crackers": Captain...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Some used captivating style to boost diplomacy. Some offered compassionate calm in days of war. Some embraced the role they never expected to make a difference. And some seized the role they always dreamed of to blaze a trail. Every first lady has their own tale to tell, and this series examines some of the women who left their indelible mark on the White House and in history. Join us as we go beyond the public lives to tell the private stories of...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
President Richard Graves, a former two-term POTUS, embarks on a Don Quixote-like quest to right the wrongs of his administration and reclaim his legacy 25 years after leaving the White House. With topics ranging from immigration to gay rights, foreign policy to public funding for arts and sciences, Graves holds nothing sacred as he unspools some of his administration's proudest victories.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (241 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From 1789 to today, this film gathers together vivid snapshots of all Commanders in Chief who have guided America throughout its history, their powerful personalities, weaknesses, and major achievements or historical insignificance.
Publisher
Newmarket
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The assassination of the most powerful leader in the free world is examined in this controversial mockumentary from British filmmaker Gabriel Range. Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and the days that followed while examining the aftermath and the enduring controversies, using home movies from eyewitnesses, Dallas police dispatch radio recordings, and raw news footage.
9) The Reagans
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening four-part series reexamining one of the most powerful and polarizing political couples of the time. Award winning documentarian and journalist Matt Tyrnauer combines archival footage, exhaustive research, and first-person accounts from the couple's inner circle to craft a revealing portrait of their unlikely rise from Hollywood to the presidency, and Nancy Reagan's powerful position at the helm of their unprecedented partnership. A...
Author
Language
English
Description
The series will dissect the myths that have grown up around Abraham Lincoln, and in doing so, will address outstanding questions surrounding him – questions about race, equality, religion, depression, and sexuality – by carefully interpreting the evidence provided by people who actually knew him.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE takes a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. With inside accounts from his battles with his Republican opponents over health care and the economy to his dramatic expansion of targeted killings of enemies, FRONTLINE examines the president's key decisions and the experiences that will inform his second term.
12) Parkland
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Featuring Oscar-winners Marcia Gay Harden and Billy Bob Thornton.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
The miniseries weaves together the troubled lives of a dirt-farmer's son and a wealthy Southern slave-owner's daughter. Together, Abraham and Mary Lincoln ascended to the pinnacle of power at the most difficult time in the nation's history, the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's legacy as the Great Emancipator reshaped the nation while his tragic death left Mary reclusive and forgotten.
Publisher
Sector 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim Marrs, author of the international best selling book JFK book of all time, "Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy" takes you deep into the conspiracy of John F. Kennedy's untimely death with visual and factual information that rules out the lone assassination theory. Marrs' work was the basis for the hugely successful Oliver Stone film "JFK." Fifty years after the event that rocked the nation and shook the world, Marrs reveals the facts behind...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the president is kidnapped by a terrorist who seizes control of the White House (Secret Service Code: Olympus), disgraced former presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team rushes to respond, they must rely on Banning's insider knowledge to save the president and prevent an even greater catastrophe.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
As Africa looks desperately for leaders of integrity and vision, the life and ideals of the late Thomas Sankara seem more and more relevant and exemplary with the passage of time. This new film should go a long way towards explaining why, though largely forgotten in this country, Sankara is still venerated on his own continent as the 'African Che,' a legendary martyr like Patrice Lumumba or Amilcar Cabral. The film recovers for the present a detailed...
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States by winning three key states, a victory engineered by an ultra-conservative faction that quietly mapped its way to power using fake news, lies and psychometrics. This explosive documentary follows the money to the reclusive multi-billionaire Robert Mercer who bought Breitbart News and funded the effort, while inserting Steve Bannon into the presidential campaign as its manager. In the darkness...
18) Our Nixon
Author
Language
English
Description
Newly uncovered Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides – and fellow Watergate conspirators – offer an intimate and surprising new glimpse into his presidency.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln proved himself a master of a new frontier - not on the battlefields of the Civil War, but in his high-tech command center: the War Department Telegraph Office. The internet of the 19th century, the telegraph gave Lincoln new powers to reshape leadership and wield personal control across distant battlefields. It also connected him to the country in new ways, as information poured in, and allowed him to feel the pulse of the...
Publisher
Marshall Publishing and Promotions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the lives of the men who rose to the oval office and their accomplishments, as well as their personal lives and families. It looks at what these men did for our country as leaders both politically and socially and how each of them contributed to the rich history of America and influenced its future for generations to come. Through the use of historical drawings, photos and film, modern animation, and engaging narration.
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