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Macbeth

1984
Contains the text of Shakespeare's play in which Macbeth kills Duncan, the King of Scotland, in order to seize the throne for himself.

Richard III

1988
Shakespeare's historical play in which Richard III, Duke of Gloucester, plots and schemes to obtain power and is eventually haunted by those he removed in the process.

Henry V

1988
Presents Shakespeare's history play in which young King Henry of England asserts a hereditary claim to the throne of France, gathering an army and embarking on a course that will lead to one of England's greatest battlefield triumphs; and includes explanatory notes and information on Shakespeare's sources and the play in performance.

Henry IV

1988
Presents the complete text of the play in which a rebellion against King and State is juxtaposed against the rebellion of Prince Hal against his father King Henry IV, and features modern spelling and punctuation, source material, and an annotated bibliography.

Annie Oakley

1998
Film biography of sharp-shooter Oakley, including her career as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Includes actual film of Oakley taken in 1903 by Thomas Edison.

Henry VIII

2007

Julius Caesar

1964
This striking tragedy of political conflict focuses on the ancient Roman world and the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. Ironies abound most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

2011
A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans to assassinate him on the Ides of March.

American legends

2001
Four animated short films profiling legendary figures in American history. John Henry helps build America's railroads; Casey Jones, the brave engineer delivers the U.S. mail; Johnny Appleseed plants apple trees to benefit early pioneers; Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack, clears the land for settlers.

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