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1) Hostiles
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Publisher
Rich-Heape Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In 1838, the Cherokee Native American tribe was forced to relocate to the Western United States. The 2,000-mile journey resulted in the deaths of an estimated 4,000 Cherokees. Narrated by James Earl Jones
"***1/2...excellent documentary...Highly recommended."--Video Librarian
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
Black Indians: Explores issues of racial...
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Captain John Smith leaves the Jamestown fort to explore and trade with the Indians, but he is captured. Princess Pocahontas asks her father to spare Smith's life and they fall in love. When he returns to Jamestown, he finds the people starving. Pocahontas brings supplies, but while saving them English, she falls in disgrace with her people. When the Indians realize that the English will not leave their country, they attack. After a bloody battle,...
6) Heat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop. following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Europeans arrived in North America, they encountered the Native people. Contrary to stereotype, American Indians were not simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land. They were, like all people, an amalgam: charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction...
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"An epic adventure and passionate romance unfold against the panorama of a frontier wilderness ravaged by war. Academy award winner Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Madeleine Stowe is Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a proud British Colonel. Their love, tested by fate, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies that engulfs the majestic mountains...
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
With a history of feuding, horse rustling, and violence, the Franklin and Red Eagle families are well known rivals in the lawless Western frontier. When disaster strikes, these two families will be forced to work together as lives hang in the balance.
10) Geronimo
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A Western film based on the exploits of the legendary Indian leader, in which great attention is paid to authenticity in depicting the Apaches as they actually were. Geronimo and a small band of followers fought to evade capture through a combination of military cunning and reckless audacity.
11) Being Flynn
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between parent and child. Nick Flynn is a young writer seeking to define himself. His father Jonathan, however, scrapes through life on his own terms and has not seen his son in 18 years. Taking a job at a homeless shelter, Nick finds purpose in his own life and work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed. To give the two of them a shot at a real future, Nick wrestles with the notion...
12) A thief of time
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2004, [2009]
Language
English
Description
Lt. Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee, two officers of the Navajo Tribal Police, investigate the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market.
13) Trail of tears
Series
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The great Indian wars 1540-1890: Documents the Native American struggle against European settlers.
Native America: VD.520 This ... collection examines Native North American culture, past and present, and its attempts to halt assimilation and retain native cultural traditions.
Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by...
15) Call of the wild
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A young girl finds an injured wolf/dog while visiting her grandfather and wants to nurse it back to health and take it back to Boston with her. When her grandfather tries to talk her out of it by reading her Jack London's Call of the Wild, the little girl has ideas of her own. Includes deleted scenes, game, commentary, and behind-the-scenes featurette.
16) Badland
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Detective Matthias Breecher is hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals. As he roams the Old West seeking justice, his resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
With a history of feuding, the Franklin and Red Eagle families are well-known rivals in the lawless Western frontier. When disaster strikes, these two families will be forced to confront their many differences as lives hang in the balance.
Publisher
HBO 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 thier identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
19) American veteran
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Today, America has nearly eighteen million living military veterans, from the Greatest Generation to men and women coming home from recent tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. They join the now-silent ranks of American veterans reaching back to our earliest conflict, the Revolutionary War.
20) Coyote waits
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.