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1) The Founder
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
2) Argo
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still felt today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a mid-level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
3) Knuckleball!
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg this heartfelt, funny and deeply engaging film delves into the legendary subculture of the knuckleball and the brotherhood of men who share the drive, imagination and humility to throw baseball's slowest, most disrespected pitch."--Container.
The definitive documentary about the impossible-to-hit pitch, the knuckleball.
4) Black death
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric, a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors.
5) Broken
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswalt in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance....
7) Barrymore
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A filmed play of Christopher Plummer as iconic stage and screen idol John Barrymore. At the height of his remarkable career, John Barrymore was the most celebrated entertainer of his generation. The reigning king of both Broadway and Hollywood, his decline and fall from grace was the tragic result of a self-destructive spiral into vice and excess. And now, with his career in tatters, he makes one final attempt to reclaim his former glory on the stage...
8) Chimpanzee
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a three-year-old African chimpanzee named Oscar who is adopted by the leader of his group when a rival attack leaves him orphaned.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The greatest fairy tale never told comes to life as never before in Shrek The Musical, the highly acclaimed Broadway production based on the smash-hit movie. Featuring a fantastic score of seventeen all-new songs, along with unforgettable characters and outrageous humor, it's ogre-sized fun for the whole family.
10) Burden
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of Michael 'Mike' Burden, an ardent young member of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan who rose to the rank of Grand Dragon and walked away from all of it with the help of new love and an unlikely ally, the African American religious leader and social activist Reverend David Kennedy.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sesame Street's 50th year is the perfect opportunity for a music and memory-filled special for the entire family. It's the biggest celebration ever on The Street, and lots of friends are on hand to share in the fun. But the celebration could be derailed if it's discovered that the iconic Sesame Street sign has mysteriously gone missing. It's up to some resourceful Muppets to try to find out what has happened to the sign and try to get it back without...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Teaches girls the skills needed to succesfully use the potty.
"Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Little girls love to play Princess! With festive Princess songs, lively dances and activities, the Potty Power Princess program will teach your daughter the skills she needs to successfully use the potty. Encourages & motivates a young princess. It's an entertaining and effective tool that will introduce your toddler to the skills of potty training"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The story of a school teacher turned professional athlete who nearly lost everything when a tragic car accident on a mountain road nearly cost her her life. Defying all odds, Ironman triathlete Janelle Morrison began her road to recovery the moment she awoke from a coma a week after the accident. With doctors wondering if she would ever walk again, she yearned for the freedom the triathlon had brought her. Only three months after the accident, she...
18) Golden kingdom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Burmese
Description
A narrative feature film about four orphan boys, novice monks living in a Buddhist monastery in a remote part of Northeast Burma. The head monk departs on a long journey from which he may never return, leaving the boys alone in the middle of the forest. Once the boys are on their own, strange, magical occurrences begin to pass. Orphan Witazara realizes he must protect the three other boys throughout this series of bizarre events, which threaten to...
19) Chicken run
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When a flying circus chicken lands in an egg farm, the egg farm chickens have great hopes that he can teach them all to fly, in order to escape.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This seems to be the prevailing ideology of the extreme Takfiri terrorists known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Their aim is said to be the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate. Shias, Christians, Sunnis, Yazidies, and whoever dares to question them or raise the voice of dissent is persecuted under their distorted version of Islamic Sharia. Gruesome beheadings, crucifixions and mass executions are openly carried out under their iconic...
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