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Ten Commandments (DVD)
[videorecording].
Includes the 1956 Academy Award-winning classic, rated G (2 discs, WS), and the
1923 black and white silent version which is not rated (1 disc, FS). The original
1923 film has been restored and remastered and is available for the first time on
DVD.
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Reds [(DVD)videorecording]
The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and
activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.
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Saving Private Ryan [DVD
videorecording]
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose
three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question
their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded
by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength
to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
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All Quiet on the Western
Front [DVD videorecording]
A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment
with war.
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Titanic [DVD videorecording]
Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden
voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic.
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Spartacus [DVD videorecording]
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial
Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
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Gone with the Wind [DVD
videorecording]
"Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The
story begins on the O'Haras' Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves
through the Civil War and Reconstruction."
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Schindler's List [DVD
videorecording]
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and
went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration
camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German
army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant
and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews
as target practice from the balcony of his villa that overlooks the prison camp
he commands.
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Ben-Hur [DVD videorecording]
A peace-loving prince of Judea leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering
Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he
learns to fight, love, hate and, finally, forgive.
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Lawrence of Arabia [(DVD)videorecording]
The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized
the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle
of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
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