Your Guide To The Best American History DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews

Centennial: The Complete Series

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2008-07-29
Running Time: 1252 minutes

A remarkably ambitious and engrossing project, this 1978 television miniseries ran 26-and-a-half hours, cost a then-enormous $25 million, and involved 4 directors, 5 cinematographers, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 speaking parts. Based on James Michener's panoramic bestseller about the settling of the American West--as reflected in the history of a fictional town called Centennial, Colo... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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American History X

Starring: Edward Furlong
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Release Date: 1999-04-06
Running Time: 119 minutes

Perhaps the highest compliment you can pay to Edward Norton is that his Oscar-nominated performance in American History X nearly convinces you that there is a shred of logic in the tenets of white supremacy. If that statement doesn't horrify you, it should; Norton is so fully immersed in his role as a neo-Nazi skinhead that his character's eloquent defense of racism is disturbingly persuas... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition)

Starring: Royce D. Applegate
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Created By: Kees Van Oostrum
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: 2004-02-03
Running Time: 254 minutes

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Black Hawk Down (3-Disc Deluxe Edition)

Starring: Ewan McGregor
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2003-06-03
Running Time: 144 minutes

Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord ... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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John Adams (HBO Miniseries)

Starring: Laura Linney
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO
Release Date: 2008-06-10
Running Time: 501 minutes

Based on David McCullough's bestselling biography, the HBO miniseries John Adams is the furthest thing from a starry-eyed look at America's founding fathers and the brutal path to independence. Adams (Paul Giamatti), second president of the United States, is portrayed as a skilled orator and principled attorney whose preference for justice over anti-English passions earns enemies. But he al... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Dreamkeeper

Starring: Victoria Aberdeen
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
Release Date: 2004-03-16
Running Time: 180 minutes

While it doesn't hold together as a three-hour TV drama, Dreamkeeper should prove enthralling to anyone interested in Native American myths and legends. A variety of tribal folklore provides the episodic thrust of this typical Hallmark production, which relies too heavily on digital effects--and the plodding direction of Hallmark regular Steve Barron--in telling the story of a resentful Lak... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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1776 (Restored Director's Cut)

Starring: Howard Da Silva
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2002-07-02
Running Time: 166 minutes

The hit Broadway musical by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards became the basis for this 1972 film about America's first congress and the nation's declaration of independence from Britain. Most of the original cast members are aboard, including William Daniels as John Adams. The film is a little stodgy and moves stiffly from scene to scene--the adaptation to the screen is not a smooth success. But it... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The War - A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: Lynn Novick
Studio: PBS
Release Date: 2007-10-02
Running Time: 900 minutes

Creating epic documentaries about war is nothing new for Ken Burns, nor is the subject of the Second World War, which never ceases to be a popular subject of films and TV shows. Yet with The War, Burns has definitely succeeded in breaking new ground, exploring in depth the effect of the war on common Americans, and not just the soldiers of The Greatest Generation that fought it. As the nar... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

Starring: Tantoo Cardinal
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Created By: McDonnell, Mary
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 2003-05-20
Running Time: 236 minutes

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Patton

Starring: Karl Malden
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2001-11-06
Running Time: 171 minutes

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