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English
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Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/3 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of an Ohio schoolteacher who formed his own company and was engaged in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War -- only to be shot in the face and left for dead.
3) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies.
4) The beguiled
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the Civil War, young Jesse James, his brother Frank and their soon-to-be-legendary gang rides into Kansas on the trail of Colonel William Quantrill. Seeking revenge against the Union, Jesse wants to join Quantrill's Raiders, who are plotting to claim Kansas for teh Confederacy. The more time Jesses spends with Quantrill, however, the more he realizes that the colonel isn't a hero fighting for the South, but a bushwhacking madman.
6) Lincoln
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) Little women
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss and the trials of growing up.
8) Lincoln
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War starting arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food,...
11) Glory
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Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. Robert Gould Shaw and Cabot Forbes are two idealistic young Bostonians that lead the regiment, Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins is the inspiration who unites the troops, and Pvt. Trip is a runaway slave who joins the regiment.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the close of the Civil War, two brothers who fought on opposite sides return home to Texas to discover that their sisters have been kidnapped by Rebel guerrillas who refuse to accept the defeat of the Confederacy.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the American Civil War, three men seek hidden loot. With greed as their sole motivation, they overcome anything that gets in their way--including each other. Very violent and drawn out western.
14) The love letter
Series
Language
English
Description
When Scotty discovers a poignant letter written by a mysterious woman called Lizzie he cannot get her out of his mind. Putting thoughts of his upcoming wedding aside, he is compelled to write Lizzie a letter of his own. A romantic correspondence ensues and flourishes into a love so powerful, not even a century and a half of time can keep them apart. Spanning an era from the Civil War to the present day, the perils of Lizzie's war torn present threaten...
15) Shenandoah
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A Virginia farmer during the Civil War refuses to support either the Confederacy or the Union until his son is taken prisoner and, seeing the horrors of war first-hand, he is forced at last to take his stand.
16) Horse soldiers
Series
Pub. Date
2001, 1959.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) :; sd., color ;; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Language
English
Description
John Huston adapts and directs this tale of fear and bravery from Stephen Crane's novella, patterned by cinematographer Harold Rosson after Civil War photos of Matthew Brady. Audie Murphy, America's most decorated World War II hero, plays the untested youth first running from and later facing his fears, and G.I. cartoonist Bill Mauldin is his wise, easygoing pal. Pin a badge of honor on this overlooked classic.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Any Johhny Reb who tries to escape the Union prison outpost at Fort Bravo faces the unforgiving Arizona Territory desert stretching out before him ... and the even more unforgiving pursuit of Bravo's resolute Captain Roper. Yet there's a common foe that may unite the Civil War rivals: the fierce Mescalero horsemen waging guerilla war against Blue and Gray alike.
19) Major Dundee
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded leaf.
Language
English
Description
A Union major late in the Civil War takes it upon himself to punish a band of Apaches who murdered a ranch family and fled into Mexico. Being short of troops he uses Confederate prisoners, ex-slaves and criminals to accomplish his goal.
20) Pharaoh's army
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until a soldier's wounds heal. The Union Captain falls for the woman whose husband is off at war, while her son plots revenge on the Yankees.
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