Ken Burns tops himself with this epic of American history, told in "nine innings," with a skilled narration by John Chancellor and the voices of Paul Newman, Jason Robards, Billy Crystal, and other stars. The series spans 150 years, starting with the myth-debunking tale of baseball's true beginnings -- when it was a game "one degree above mayhem." Then follow the growth of America's National ...

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber

Covering the entire 20th century in one video series is an ambitious project, but one that Peter Jennings and ABC News are up to. In The Century: America's Time, a 12-part documentary on six videotapes that is a companion to the book of the same name, Jennings guides us through a century of technology and advancement like no other. As he says in his introduction to episode 1, "Seeds of ...

Manufacturer: ABC News
Starring: Linda Hunt, Peter Jennings, John Aaron, Harold Agnew, Steve Allen

Orson Welles narrates an incredible look at the prophecies of Nostradamus, whose amazing accuracy in predicting the future compels us to consider what his writings foretell us. Year: 1981 Director: Robert Guenette Starring: Orson Welles: Narrator

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Orson Welles, Philip L. Clarke, Ray Laska, Bob Ruggiero, Roy Edmonds
Directed By: Robert Guenette

The most-watched made-for-television movie of the 1990s (50 million viewers upon first broadcast in 1991), this fine adaptation of Patricia MacLachlan's novel stars Glenn Close as Sarah, a Maine schoolteacher who responds to a Kansas farmer's newspaper ad seeking a bride. Set in 1910, the story follows Sarah's trial run as stepmother to the children of the widowed Jacob Witting (Christopher ...

Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Jon DeVries
Directed By: Glenn Jordan

Manufacturer: Fox Video, Inc.
Starring: Charles Kuralt

Manufacturer: MGM/UA
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Malcolm McDowell
Directed By: Patrick Montgomery

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Winston Hibler
Directed By: James Algar

Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Maria Conchita Alonso, Benjamin Bratt, Frederick Coffin, Patrick Duffy, Chelsea Field
Directed By: Richard Lang

The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 1960s peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history. It's more than a chronicle of the hippie movement, however; this is a film of genuine historical and social importance, capturing the spirit of America in transition, when the Vietnam War was at its peak ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey, Joe Cocker, Country Joe McDonald
Directed By: Michael Wadleigh

In and around one village in Nazi-occupied France, 5,000 Jews were taken in and sheltered--by 5,000 Christians! "Weapons of the Spirit" is the story of a unique conspiracy of goodness, a story filmmaker Pierre Sauvage was born to tell: he was born and protected at that time in that singular oasis of peace--Le Chambon. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was a tiny Protestant farming village in the ...

Starring: Joseph Atlas, René Bousquet, Adolphe Caritey, Roger Darcissac, Charles Gibert
Directed By: Pierre Sauvage