Joanne Whalley
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
He's guilty of murder. But something goes wrong in the jury room. Eleven jurors vote guilty. One woman, her life and family threatened by the mob, votes to let the killer walk. To set things right, that woman will have to fight back with a vengeance.
4) Willow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willow Ufgood leaves his village to carry a special baby to safety. Aided by a swashbuckling warrior, Willow's quest is plagued by danger as the Powers of Darkness scheme to destroy the child-- a child destined to bring everlasting peace and freedom to the land.
5) Storyville
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A rising political star from a powerful Louisiana family finds a moment's weakness threatening a lifetime's ambition.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Rodrigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After exacting vicious punishment on all those who opposed them, the Borgias are at the apex of their power and influence. With the world around them embroiled in war and turmoil, the original crime family will continue to exploit allies, silence critics, and solidify legacies. But this time, the seemingly unbreakable bonds of blood will be tested like never before, as the house notoriously united against the world becomes divided against itself.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After Virginia's mother is killed in a freak riding accident, her father sells the offending mare, Twister, and forbids Virginia to ever ride. When Twister later dies giving birth to a foal, Virginia breaks the ban and grooms Twister's offspring, Stormy, to compete in the big Memorial Day 50 Mile Endurance Race.
Publisher
Yavapai College Library
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Erik the Viking (PG-13) (1989) (1 hr. 47 min.) -- Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok.
Dune (PG-13) (1984) (2 hr. 17 min.) -- A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
The adventures of Baron Munchausen (PG) (1988) (2 hr. 6 min.) -- An account...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Irons stars in The Borgias, the saga of history's most infamous crime family. Conspiring with his ruthless sons and poisonously seductive daughter, the charismatic Rodrigo Borgia will let nothing and no one stand in the way of his relentless quest for wealth and power. Mercilessly cruel and defiantly decadent, intimidation and murder are his weapons of choice in his scandalous ascension to the papacy in Renaissance-era Italy.
11) Navy Seals
Series
Publisher
Orion Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
While rescuing an American air crew captured by Mid-Eastern terrorists, Lieutenant Curran and his team of Navy SEALs discover evidence that the terrorists have come into possession of dangerous high-tech weapons.
Publisher
ITV Studios Global Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This spectacular drama reimagines one of literature's most enduring heroes, the great warrior Beowulf. Featuring an ensemble cast of fascinating and fantastical characters, this epic drama follows Beowulf as he strives to be a man as well as hero, challenging the notions of good and evil, heroes and villains, and the rule of law against one's moral code.
14) Wolf Hall
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Paul, who goes from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Christ's most influential apostle, is spending his last days in a dark and bleak prison cell awaiting execution by Emperor Nero. Luke, his friend and physician, risks his life when he ventures into Rome to visit him. Paul is under the watchful eye of Mauritius, the prison's prefect, who seeks to understand how this broken old man can pose such a threat. But before Paul's death sentence...
Publisher
Twentieth Century fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Navy SEALS: A Navy SEAL team is mobilized to free an U.S. aircraft crew held as hostages in the Mideast. Armed with advanced weaponry, the SEALs burst into the terrorist stronghold where they find a cache of deadly Stinger missiles. The terrorists begin using the Stingers on civilian aircraft, and the SEALs must stop them.
Red dawn: When a town is invaded by foreign forces and the security of the United States seems threatened, a group of high school...
Publisher
Twentieth Century fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Navy SEALS: A Navy SEAL team is mobilized to free an U.S. aircraft crew held as hostages in the Mideast. Armed with advanced weaponry, the SEALs burst into the terrorist stronghold where they find a cache of deadly Stinger missiles. The terrorists begin using the Stingers on civilian aircraft, and the SEALs must stop them.
Red dawn: When a town is invaded by foreign forces and the security of the United States seems threatened, a group of high school...