Your Guide To The Best World History DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews

The Christmas Truce (History Channel)

Rated: G (General Audience)
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
Release Date: 2007-10-30
Running Time: 50 minutes

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NOVA - Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Running Time: 120 minutes

At a time when heretics were burned alive for dissent, scientist Galileo Galilei risked his life to advance his revolutionary concepts of the universe. British actor Simon Callow (Shakespeare in Love, Four Weddings and a Funeral) brings Galileo to life, humanizing the great thinker’s passion, intelligence, and arrogance while depicting his frustrations with fellow philosophers and scientists, a... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Warm Springs

Starring: Cynthia Nixon
Rated: Unrated
Studio: HBO
Release Date: 2005-08-30
Running Time: 120 minutes

He was the only president to be elected three times, and is admired for his leadership during some of this nation's most challenging times, most notably, World War II and the Great Depression. Despite these historic accomplishments, many Americans have never known of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's greatest achievement...until now. Starring Kenneth Branagh (Shakespeare) and Cynthia Nixon(Sex and the C... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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My Boy Jack

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Created By: David Haig
Studio: BBC Warner
Release Date: 2008-04-22
Running Time: 93 minutes

Its 1915 and World War I has been declared. Aged only 17, Kiplings son, like most of his generation, is swept up in the enthusiasm to fight the Germans, a mood stoked vigorously by his father. Jack is cripplingly short sighted and the army has rejected him twice, rendering him too myopic even for an army suffering thousands of casualties a week and desperate for recruits. Yet Rudyard is undeterred... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The History Channel Presents The Revolution

Starring: Revolutionary War
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Release Date: 2006-12-19
Running Time: 600 minutes

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Modern Marvels - Walt Disney World (History Channel)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Running Time: 100 minutes

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Truman

Starring: Diana Scarwid
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Created By: Lisa Fruchtman
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: 2000-02-29
Running Time: 135 minutes

Harry S. Truman had a hard row to hoe as the 33rd president and he never enjoyed popularity while in office. Think about what occurred on Truman's watch: the bombing of Hiroshima, a nationwide railroad strike, the rise of the Southern States' Rights Party, integration of the armed forces, the ascendancy of McCarthyism, the early cold war, and finally the Korean Conflict and Truman's decision to fi... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Mel Brooks Collection (Blazing Saddles / Young Frankenstein / Silent Movie / Robin Hood: Men in Tights / To Be or Not to Be / History of the World, Part 1 / The Twelve Chairs / High Anxiety)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2006-04-04
Running Time: 772 minutes

This 8 disc boxset includes Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, Robinhood Men in Tights, Silent Movie, To Be or Not to Be, Twelve Chairs, Young Frankenstein.... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Mayflower Pilgrims

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Janson Media
Release Date: 2003-06-20
Running Time: 60 minutes

Towards the end of the 16th Century, in a quiet corner of England, well away from the mainstream of Elizabethan life, an apparently insignificant religious movement emerged. It was composed of a small band of largely anonymous people who believed in a simple form of worship, away from the ritualized trappings of the established Church of the day. These people were known as Separatists.

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Battlefield: Guadalcanal

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Cromwell Productions
Release Date: 2008-03-11
Running Time: 95 minutes

Guadalcanal was the first major land battle of the Southern Pacific campaign. The island was considered key to the defense of eastern Australia and was the first step in the "march" up the Solomon Island chain to neutralize the key Japanese base at Rabaul, open up the road to the Philippines, and ultimately to Japan itself.

This episode is from the landmark television series Battlefield.... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online

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