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(0)John Barry
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Revised to reflect...
14) Zulu
Series
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Zulu is set in Africa in 1879 only hours after the battle of Isandhlwana. A small group of British soldiers stood their ground at a farm house against an onslaught of wave after wave of Zulus.
16) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Publisher
Epic
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
None
Description
Sent to protect a U.S. outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching U.S. Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice -- one that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation...
20) Never let go
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A salesman's search for his stolen car becomes an obsession that affects his family and threatens his life.
