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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War. He gets his chance when he inadvertently causes the capture of a notorious Confederate spy known as "The Grey Spider" and adopts the spy's identity. The plot thickens when Aubrey meets the beautiful Confederate agent Sallyann Weatharby and falls in love with her.
4) Yellow Jack
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Spanish-American War is over, but not the scourge of death. Yellow fever has killed more U.S. soldiers deployed to Cuba than battle, and a medical team led by Dr. Walter Reed is determined to defeat the microbial enemy. The secret to wiping it out may lie in the once-discredited theory of a dedicated researcher: an infected mosquito.
6) Little women
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jo, resolved to be a writer, is unaware that the elusive muse she seeks is the life she shares with her sisters and mother.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
On the same day that Prof. Roth celebrates his birthday, Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. This causes a tragic rift among the guests at the professor's party. Politics come between Roth's daughter Freya & her fiance. Freya finds herself falling in love with an old friend, but their only hope for a future together is to escape to freedom across the Austrian border.
8) Conquest
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A historical portrayal of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte from 1807 through 1815 and his romantic involvement with Polish Countess Marie Walewska, who bore him a son, and the eventual parting of their relationship. The story begins in Poland in 1807 and continues through the departure of Napoleon from France in 1815.
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"[This program] charts Catherine's tumultuous reign as the cunning and ambitious empress fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire and expands Russian's borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea. Beyond its tale of a political success story against all odds, the series chronicles the passionate love affair between Catherine and Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin."--
10) PT 109
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Retelling of John F. Kennedy's wartime exploits as skipper of a battle-scarred PT boat. The assignment: harass the enemy and buy time for a U.S. Navy still on the drawing boards. In August 1943, PT 109 was sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy led his surviving crew through a sea aflame from gasoline, towing one badly burned sailor miles to the nearest island.
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