Eric Schweig
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.
2) The missing
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A woman and her estranged father follow kidnappers who have taken her daughter.
3) Big Eden
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
From out gay writer-director Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone) comes this funny, heart-warming romantic tale of a thirty-something gay guy, Henry Hart (Arye Gross, Ellen, Six Feet Under) who returns to his childhood Montana home when his beloved Grandfather becomes ill. Once there, Henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend Dean (TimDeKay) and his feelings about being gay in a small town.. But Big Eden residents defy the...
4) Pontiac moon
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1969, a whole nation awaited the Apollo XI mission to the moon. Science teacher Washington Bellamy and his son undertake a fantastic journey of their own. Their goal: to match the mileage from the Earth to the moon in Washington's 1949 Pontiac Chief. If Washington's calcuations are correct, they will arrive at the Spires of the Moon National Park just as the astronauts land on the moon.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
6) Skins
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Rudy Yellow Lodge is both a resident and a police officer of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Dealing with the fallout and emotional burdens of reservation life in one of the poorest counties in the U.S., as alcoholism and poverty continually threaten the community, his family, and his own state of mind, Rudy finds himself taking the law into his own hands, with potentially tragic consequences.
7) The missing
Series
Shout select volume 109
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 19th century New Mexico, a father comes home hoping to reconcile with his daughter, Maggie. Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and daughter to work together to get her back.
8) 500 nations
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact.
Episode 1: The ancestors: Explore three stunning early cultures of North America. The Anasazi tranform the arid Southwest and construct the imposing 800-room Pueblo Bonito, depicted inside and out via computer animation. At Mesa Verde, Cliff...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...