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Rollo the Viking: The Life and Legacy of the Viking Ruler Who Conquered Normandy eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Free butterfly at Nov. 29, 2021

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Rouben Mamoulian - The Song Of Songs (1933) Movies

Posted by amlo01 at July 30, 2011

Song of Songs was the first Marlene Dietrich vehicle not directed by Josef von Sternberg. The star plays a zaftig German peasant girl who becomes a nude model. She falls in love with a struggling sculptor, but her ambitions get the better of her and she marries a hedonistic baron. Leaving her husband, Dietrich sinks further down the social scale by becoming a cabaret singer. She is eventually reunited with the sculptor, but not before smashing the nude statue based on her voluptuous frame, thereby symbolically purging her checkered past..

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Cristóvão Colombo - O Enigma / Christopher Columbus, The Enigma (2007) Movies

Posted by Rare-1 at April 8, 2015

From the 1940's to today, Manuel Luciano has tried to discover the true identity of Christopher Columbus. In his multiple trips between Portugal and the United States, always joined by his ever-loving wife, he has witnessed the changes in time and places and is now very close to unveiling the mysteries of the world famous explorer. He just needs to make a final trip to Christopher Columbus' birth house

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The Maltese Falcon (1941) [3-Discs Special Edition] [Repost] Movies

Posted by ETRU at Oct. 2, 2014

The Maltese Falcon [3-Discs Special Edition]
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / The Maltese Falcon (1931) / Satan Met a Lady (1936)
2xDVD9 + DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 100 + 80 + 74 mins | 6,48 Gb + 6,74 Gb + 3,51 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish | Artwork
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Deluxe 3-Disc Edition of one of the greatest movie mystery yearns of all time. Enjoy all 3 Warner Bros. screen versions, especially John Huston's 1941 masterpiece that shot Humphrey Bogart to stardom, restored and digitally remastered.
Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. John Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by first-rate performances, excellent camera work, as well as the director's acute attention to detail while shooting the film. Based on the crime novel by Dashiell Hammett.

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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War eBooks & eLearning

Posted by lout at Jan. 26, 2012

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War By Tim Rowland, J.W. Howard
Publisher: Skyh.,.orse Publis..hing 2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1616083956 | PDF | 2 MB

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Lucy Stone: A Life (Repost) eBooks & eLearning

Posted by enmoys at April 24, 2016

Lucy Stone: A Life By Sally G. McMillen
2015 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 0199778396 | PDF | 6 MB

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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Jan. 30, 2022

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don't get told, and the misadventures you haven't read about in history books. Share in all the humorous and strange events that took place behind the scenes of some of the most famous Civil War moments. Picture a pedestal in a public park with no statue on top; Rowland's book explains that when the members of the New York Monument Commission went to hire a sculptor to finish the statue, they were shocked to discover that there was no money left in the agency's accounts to pay for the project. The money for the statue of Dan Sickles had been stolen—stolen by former monument committee chairman Dan Sickles!

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