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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, during the Great Depression, the Walton family makes its small income from its saw mill on Walton's Mountain. The saga follows the family through depression and war, and through growing up, school, courtship, marriage, employment, birth, aging, illness and death.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
When Muslim writer and activisit Asra Nomani returns to her hometown mosque in West Virginia, she believes she sees signs of trouble: exclusion of women, intolerance toward nonbelievers, suspicion of the West. Her resulting campaign for change alienates would-be allies in the mosque, leading many to wonder who most deserves the label of “extremist.” It isn’t long before members put forward a petition to expel her from the Islamic Center of Morgantown....
3) Lawless
Language
English
Description
Based on the lives of the Bondurant brothers, siblings who operated a bootlegging operation in Franklin County, Virginia during Prohibition and beyond and who played a central role in a violent conspiracy trial.
Publisher
New Video Group
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Virginia O'Hanlon is a little girl who lives in New York City in 1897, and loves Christmas more than anything else in the world. But when a schoolyard bully challenges her belief in Santa Claus, Virginia embarks on a quest across the city to prove he is real. Finally her father inspires her to write a letter to the New York Sun Newspaper, claiming 'if you see it in the Sun, it's so.' Included is commentary, and a featurette.
5) Pocahontas
Language
English
Description
In 1607, a group of British adventurers, including John Smith, led by the greedy Virginia Company governor Ratcliffe, set sail for the New World, seeking gold and other treasures. In Virginia, Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan's daughter, ponders her life as she is faced with marriage to the stern warrior, Kocoum. The British establish the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia and dig up the countryside for gold. Smith meets Pocahontas and they overcome their...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust...
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Nat Turner's slave rebellion is a watershed event in America's long and troubled history of slavery and racial conflict. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property tells the story of that violent confrontation and of the ways that story has been continuously re-told during the years since 1831. It is a film about a critical moment in American history and of the multiple ways in which that moment has since been remembered. Nat Turner was a "troublesome property"...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version ; Deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
When Felicity meets Penny, a beautiful copper-colored mare, she knows with all her heart that she must free Penny from her cruel owner. Felicity desperately wishes for that same sureness of heart about the rumors of revolution swirling through Williamsburg. Felicity's father believes that the colonies should be free from England's rule, but her beloved grandfather and her best friend Elizabeth both support the king. Includes all-new special features....
11) Shiloh
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
12) The colt
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1864, the First Michigan Cavalry is stranded in a Virginia forest, when a colt is born to a beloved mare. When the horses are stolen, one of troopers, Jim, chases them and gets lost. Honoring the Confederate Reb's last wish sparks in Jim a remarkable honor and duty toward enlightenment and untold danger.
13) We are Marshall
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home from a hard-fought game in North Carolina. Less than a minute...
14) Lawless
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of the infamous Bondurant brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic outlaw tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel The Wettest County in the World, the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
15) Bonanza
Series
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Ben Cartwright and his sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe, run their ranch, the Ponderosa, on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and contribute to taming the wild West.
Series
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Language
English
Description
Ben Cartwright and his sons run their ranch, the Ponderosa, on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and contribute to taming the wild West. Showdown: Bank robber Sam Kirby and his gang hide out on the Ponderosa. Sam gets a job as a ranchhand under an assumed name and Joe Cartwright gets suspicious of him. San Francisco holiday: At the end of the cattle drive in San Francisco two of Ben's drovers are shanghaied on a boat bound for Hong Kong and while Ben...
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Edition
Collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
Fiifteen episodes of a long-running television program. Set in Virginia City, Nevada, during the Civil War. Widower Ben Cartwright was the patriarch of the all-male clan and owner of a nearly 600,000 acre ranch - The Ponderosa. Each of the three sons had been borne by a different wife, none of whom was still alive. The adventures of these men, individually and collectively, their dealings with the mining interests and the ranching interests, and the...
20) The glass castle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family. A remarkable story of unconditional love. A young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father, found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
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