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Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....
2) Into The Sun
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
When the governor of Tokyo is murdered, it falls on ex-CIA agent Travis Hunter to track down the responsible terrorists. However, the plot to kill the Governor is only the beginning of a web of corruption and violence. Hunter discovers a plan by a rising Yakuza leader to build an enormous drug-dealing network with the Chinese Mafia. With time running out and the Yakuza determined to see their plan through, Hunter must thwart the operation - and get...
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"In America, behind the public facade of nine of our most famed institutions and landmark structures, there is another world that is hidden from view. The special pierces the veil of secrecy which conceals forbidden histories and fascinating insider information from the public."-- Publisher.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
When the family business starts to fail, Tommy must hit the road as a salesman with a smug family accountant; a man who makes his living as a wedding singer loses his faith in love until he falls in love with a woman on the eve of her wedding; in order to avoid litigation over a fender bender, a Roxbury club regular puts two B-list guys on the A-list for the club's guest list; an aspiring gubernatorial candidate tries very hard to keep his bumbling...
7) Huey Long
Description
Uses archival film footage to portray events in the life of the charismatic Louisiana politician Huey Long who built roads, bridges, and schools, but whose brutal, corrupt reign suddenly ended in a hail of bullets. Incorporates interviews with scholars and the recollections of Louisianans who knew Long.
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Description
When he was New York Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America's largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country. After his election as governor, with the largest margin in the state's history, many believed Spitzer was on his to becoming the nation's first Jewish president. Then, shockingly, Spitzer's meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when the New York Times revealed that Spitzer...
Pub. Date
[2006], c2000
Description
Four times governor of Alabama, four times a candidate for president, George Wallace was a fierce defender of Southern pride. This documentary examines Wallace's life and career, featuring archival footage and interviews with contemporaries, historians and family members.
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