Stevan Larner
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[Collector's edition].
Language
English
Description
This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian territories.
2) Badlands
Pub. Date
©1973, ℗2010.
Language
English
Description
Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree.
3) Roots
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boys' abduction to America and continues throughout the generations that follow.
4) Badlands
Series
Criterion collection volume 651
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda (Cleo from 5 to 7), whose remarkable career began in the 1950s and has continued into the twenty-first century, produced some of her most provocative works while living on the West Coast of the United States. After temporarily relocating from France to California in the late sixties with her husband, Jacques Demy, so that he could make his first Hollywood film.
6) Roots
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
40th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, that followed several generations in the lives of a slave family.
7) Badlands
Series
Criterion collection volume 651
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
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