 | Backstairs at the White House
Buy new: $47.99 / Used from: $47.01 Based on the memoirs of a mother and daughter who served as maids in the White House from Presidents Taft to Eisenhower.
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 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Complete Set
Buy used from: $17.50 The politics and fame of England's King Henry VIII is shown here on how he was influenced by his six queens.
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 | Tora! Tora! Tora! (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.49 Even though war between the U.S. and Japan seemed inevitable in 1941, this film shows how human error was the main cause that allowed the disaster of Pearl Harbor to occur.
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 | Patton (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.45 When looking past the controversy during and after the making of this film, no war film made shows both the large-scale battle scenes and the personal politics surrounding such an American icon.
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 | Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.98 Probably one of the best films depicting courage against one's government and social pressures, as a businessman tries to save as many Jewish workers as he can from The Final Solution.
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 | All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $9.14 Often we see the media as intrusive and only interested in reporting juicy stories. This film shows the determination of the two reporters who exposed the Watergate scandal, and helped bring down a president.
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 | Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Buy used from: $5.74 The story of how this crew managed to return to Earth seems more Hollywood than truth, if it weren't for fact that this story is so well based on actual events.
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 | Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.99 The combination of large battle scenes and intense personal views of warfare make this an epic film, showing how both the Union and Confederate officers saw The Civil War.
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 | Eleanor and Franklin Double Feature (The Early Years / The White House Years)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $8.63 These two films earned their Emmy Awards in depicting the events that showed how Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt got into the White House, and their efforts to get America through The Depression and WWII.
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 | Elizabeth R
Buy new: $33.49 / Used from: $30.50 Glenda Jackson's stellar performance is the best depiction so far about England's "Virgin Queen."
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 | Coal Miner's Daughter - 25th Anniversary Edition
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.98 Where you're a fan of country music or not, you cannot help but be moved by the drive, success, and tragedy of this film about Loretta Lynn.
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 | Fat Man and Little Boy
Buy used from: $6.49 Not exciting as Hollywood films go, this film factually shows the science and politics surrounding the creation of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.
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 | Gore Vidal's Lincoln
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.00 Although based on a biographical novel, this film removes much of the legend surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and shows his more human character and flaws.
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 | And the Band Played On
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.18 Presented with more of an agenda and moral ending than most biographical films, this films still shows how ignorance and politics more than anything else helped the spread of AIDS to occur in this country.
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 | The Last Bastion
Buy used from: $2.51 This film shows how most people still do not know how Australians feared being left alone to face the Japanese during WWII, and how General Douglas MacArthur used his appointment there as a start to make his famed return to the Philippines.
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 | Michael Collins
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.79 Although slighted towards the side of the Irish, this film still shows why Ireland desperately tried for independence from The United Kingdom, from the view of one of their most legendary heroes.
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 | Murrow
Buy used from: $4.00 19 years before "Good Night, and Good Luck," HBO created this film about the CBS journalist who took on not only Senator Joseph McCarthy, but also the Nazis bombing London during WWII, and the American cigarette industry.
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 | The Missiles of October
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.07 Although an obvious stage production, this TV-film still shows how close we came to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
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 | Becket
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $12.75 The acting of Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton convey this theatrical story of two close friends who later became the fiercest political rivals of their time.
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 | The Queen
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.90 Much negative press has been made about England's ruling family and their handling of Princess Diana's death. But when a film such as this can reverse some of those views, it has to be good.
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 | A Thousand Heroes
Buy used from: $32.42 More Hollywood drama than necessary, this film still shows the courage and professionalism of the flight crew and airport rescue personnel that saved 184 people who should have perished from the famed 1989 airplane crash in Sioux City, Iowa.
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 | Truman
Buy used from: $4.79 Although a good number of the facts in this film are embelished, including the fact that the assasination attempt on his life was completely omitted, this HBO film shows why Harry Truman's presidency has been given increasingly favorable views lately.
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 | Lady Jane
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $7.81 Although the love between the main charcaters is completely fictional, the story still shows the political scheming that can rise up or bring down a country's government.
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 | A Woman Called Golda
Buy used from: $19.99 The flashback presentation gives this TV-film more drama than fact, this film still gives a great insight on the life of the famed Israeli Prime Minister.
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 | World War II - When Lions Roared
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $13.72 Pure Hollywood production, but a unique presentation of the correspondence between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, and how this maintained their unsteady alliance that eventually destroyed Nazi Germany.
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 | Anne of The Thousand Days
Buy used from: $4.00 Catholicism and sovereign rule would never be the same again after the steps England's King Henry VIII took to divorce his first wife for the enticements he craved for Anne Boleyn.
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