Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival 1978

1

A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.

1978

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1980

6.90

A TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. Angered that Katrina has grown fond of schoolmaster Crane, Brom Bones determines to scare off the interloper by filling his head with spooky tales of a Headless Horseman. Crane pooh-poohs the legends, until one fateful ride home in the dark of night.

1980

California Gold Rush

California Gold Rush 1981

5.00

Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west forever.

1981

The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle 1979

5.00

Documentary on with strange goings-on in the 'devil's triangle'.

1979

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1981

6.00

The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.

1981

The Deerslayer

The Deerslayer 1978

5.00

Frontiersman Hawkeye and his blood brother Chingachgook attempt to rescue the daughter of a chief who was captured by raiders from a rival tribe in this adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tale" of 1841.

1978

The Adventures of Nellie Bly

The Adventures of Nellie Bly 1981

3.00

A "Classics Illustrated" account of pioneer female journalist Nellie Bly, who became a legend through her exposes of corruption and inhumane conditions in New York of the 1880s in "The New York World."

1981

Beyond & Back

Beyond & Back 1978

6.00

A documentary with interviews of people who claimed to have died and then come back from the dead.

1978