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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest tells the remarkable story of a tumultuous thousand-year period. Dominated by war, conquest, and the struggle to balance the stability brought by royal power with the rights of the governed, it was a period that put into place the foundation of much of the world we know today. Taught by Professor Jennifer Paxton, an honored scholar and a professor at The Catholic University of America,...
2) King Lear
Publisher
A & E Home Video : Distributed by New Video
Language
English
Description
The Thames Shakespeare Collection presents this compelling production of King Lear performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada.
Publisher
Square Enix
Edition
Xbox One
Language
English
Description
"Reclaim your throne. Out on the road with his closest friends, Prince Noctis hears unsettling news: his homeland has fallen to the empire, with his father, his fiancée, and he himself reported dead. Unsure of what to believe, he knows only one thing--he must make his way home and take back what is rightfully his"--Container.
5) Stardust
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Language
English
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Formats
Description
Tristan hopes to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Victoria. He promises to recover a star that fell somewhere beyond the stony wall that sets between the mundane England and the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold. So Tristan sets forth on his own journey in Stormhold. Meanwhile in that magical land, the dying king has set his four surviving sons on a quest for the crown. And the witch Lamia is seeking the heart of the star for an entirely...
Series
Publisher
Square Enix
Edition
PS4, [PlayStation 4]
Language
English
Description
"Out on the road with his closest friends, Prince Noctis hears unsettling news: his homeland has fallen to the empire, with his father, his fiancèe, and he himself reported dead. Unsure of what to believe, he knows only one thing--he must make his way home and take back what is rightfully his."--Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"The King Arthur legend meets the modern day in this epic family-friendly adventure. Young Alex is just anohter bullied kid until he discovers the legendary sword Excalibur, and begins training as a knight with wizard Merlin. Alex must turn schoolyard enemies into allies, and become teh leader he never dreamed he could be to defeat the wicked Morgana and save the world." --container.
Publisher
Oxford University
Language
English
Description
Here is a sparkling collection of Crown jewels--from amusing tales that humanize their subjects to dramatic stories of martyrdoms, palace intrigues, and bloody battles. Elizabeth Longford, intimate of the royal family and biographer of Victoria and Elizabeth II, has assembled the best anecdotes ever written and reported about the kings and queens of England, across the full range of Britain's history from the first century A.D. to the present day....
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The lost tomb of Genghis Khan could be unearthed and destroyed at any time. Can engineer and explorer Albert Lin, equipped with cutting-edge technology and just a handful of obscure clues from ancient texts, find and protect the tomb of the Great Khan before it is destroyed? Lin's research leads him to search for a lost mountain-the Burkhan Khaldun, and make his most remarkable discovery, one that may solve an 800-year old mystery and cause waves...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Language
English
Description
From the first settlement of Russe Vikings to the brutal murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. This epic program encompasses nearly a thousand years of despair and rebellion, innovation and conflict. Explores the tumultuous lives of figures like Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Catherine the Great. Events include the December Revolution and Napoleon's ill-fated invasion and how they changed history.
18) Macbeth
Publisher
Olive Films
Language
English
Description
Orson Welles' dark and moody screen version of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy about a presumptuous Scottish prince's quest for power through patricide-in keeping with both the play's spirit and Welles' vision. As with his other masterpieces, Welles effectively mixes the use of shadow and oblique camera angles to achieve the ominous sense of a land in peril. Originally cut to 89 minutes for the theatrical release, the film has been restored...
Publisher
Pbs
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Lucy Worsley explores the royal wardrobes of our kings and queens over the last 400 years, from Elizabeth I to the present Queen Elizabeth II, explaining how the royal wardrobe is a carefully orchestrated piece of theater managed by the royals themselves to control the right image and project the right message to their subjects. Royal fashion is, and always has been, as much about politics as it is about the cut.
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