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Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn: The tale begins in a limestone cave near the Mississippi River, where Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are digging for a stolen chest of gold. Once it is found, Huck's drunken father demands to be given the gold, but Huck out-maneuvers his dad ; Connecticut Yankee: After being knocked unconscious in 19th century America, Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's England. He decides to make the most of his stay with the Knights of the Round...
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A magical look at the historic true tale of slave Henry Box Brown, a man who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1848. Narrated by **Emmy**-winning and **Academy Award**-nominated actress Alfre Woodard this lightly animated story uses entertaining verse to share Henry’s story. With the help of characters including Bird, Horse, Cricket and Cat, Henry avoids...
3) Unleashed
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man raised to be a killing machine escapes from his "owner" and attempts to start a new life, though his brutal past keeps following him.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When trapper Joe Bass is bush-wacked by Indians who steal his furs he's determined to get his property back. They left a runaway slave with him in exchange. When the Indians are attacked by outlaws, Joe and the slave must join forces to retrieve the furs.
6) Beloved
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fourth installment of the Planet of the apes series, a plague has wiped out all of the cats and dogs in the near future. As a result, apes begin to be kept as pets and eventually slaves. One ape, Caesar, son of talking apes from the future, leads a revolution to free the apes and take over the planet.
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history.
10) Freedom
Publisher
ARC Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward, and his family escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guides the family on their journey north to Canada. Over 100 years earlier, in 1748, Captain John Newton is about to set off across the sea with a ship full of slaves. Both men are having struggles of faith...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. In the Dark Ages, Lucian is a young Lycan who emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor, the cruel vampire king who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja, whose the daughter of Viktor, in his battle against the Vampire army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
HUCKLEBERRY FINN: After being kidnapped by his drunken father, Huck heads down the Mississippi with his buddy Jim and have many adventures. THE PROUD REBEL: After John Chandler's son goes mute following a tregedy, John searches for a doctor who can help him. Before he finds one, he and his family must work off a debt using their talented sheepdog, Lance. When a doctor is found, John has no money to pay for help for his son and must decide whether...
14) Planet Hulk
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
2-disc special ed ; digital copy ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 digital copy disc
Language
English
Description
He was a monster, impossible to control, too dangerous to ignore. So Earth's mightiest heroes exiled him into outer space. But now The Incredible Hulk crash-lands on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tryannical Red King. Sold into slavery, the Hulk becomes the planet's mightiest gladiator-- but his new masters get more than they bargained for when he forges a bond of brotherhood with his fellow fighters.
15) Unleashed
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Danny, a slave who has lived his whole life without any sort of normal human interaction, with the mind and personality of a young child, Danny has only ever learned one lession in life: how to fight. Treated like a dog, including being forced to wear a collar, by his owner/boss, Bart, Danny has been raised to be a lethal fighting machine. Danny fights in illegal gladiator-style fight clubs, where he earns lots of money for Bart...
Series
Underground volume 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.
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