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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pádraic struggles to find normality and peace in his daily existence after his lifetime best friend, Colm, abruptly no longer wants to speak to him ever again. It's hard to avoid the consequences of that decision in a tiny Irish village, but as he searches for a reason he can accept and understand, the rest of his life seems to change around him as well, in some rather extreme and dire ways.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The beloved characters of Downton Abbey take to the big screen, and it turns out that they've got a major event to prepare for. After all, it's not every day that royalty makes an appearance. Of course, it's not long before tensions are running high. The property isn't even close to ready when it becomes clear that Carson the butler will need to come out of retirement to help run this sinking ship before it's too late.
3) Green book
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (later better known as Ernesto Che Guevara) just one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend Alberto Granado on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars, celebrities, and a dynamic cast of people who shaped these years, Gates travels from the victories of the civil rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state of black America, and our nation as a whole.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
9) Chile '76
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile '76 builds from a quiet character study to a gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman's precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen leads a sheltered upper-middle-class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also performing local charitable works through her church. Her husband, children, and grandchildren...
10) Braveheart
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the intersection of history and legend lies the story of William Wallace, who led his nation into battle against the English in the years around 1300. King Edward, popularly known as "Longshanks" has allowed the English barons who hold Scotland for him to claim the 'Prima Nocta.' Wallace and his love Murron marry secretly, but his guerrilla activities bring Murron to the attention of the English. They set a trap for Wallace, and the failure...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The worldwide phenomenon Downton Abbey becomes a grand motion picture event, as the beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance, and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance. Written by series creator Julian Fellowes and starring the original cast.
12) Restoration
Language
English
Description
In 17th century Britain, a young man seduced by the wealth and indolence of the Restoration court, finds redemption of sorts through the love of a woman.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The film is based on the true story of Eugenia Ginzburg, a young Russian literature professor who spends 18 years of her life in the gulag in Siberia during Stalin's reign of terror. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camps doctor and begins to come back to life.
14) The mission
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield the Guarani South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Series
Criterion collection volume 664
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
日本語
Description
An imperial lady-in-waiting gradually descends to street prostitution.
17) Rising free
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1887, a young woman, Nakomay, is on the run for her life throughout the vast terrain of the Oregon territory. Relentless persecution and devastating adversity drove her to a life of seclusion, having everyone she ever loved stripped from her grasp. A harrowing journey leads her into the arms of a gracious family that takes her in as one of their own. Over time, she begins to process through the pain she's buried deep within, learning what it truly...
Series
Criterion collection volume 953
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ben Du Toit, a white schoolteacher living in Johannesburg, seeks justice for the death of a black friend.
Series
Hidden colors volume 05
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The final installment of the critically acclaimed Hidden Colors documentary series. In this installment, the film explores the history of warfare as it relates to global Black society. The film is broken down into seven chapters that examine the ways the system of racism wages warfare from a historical, psychological, sexual, biological, health, educational, and military perspective.
20) Endgame
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Working for P. W. Botha, Dr. Neil Barnard opens talks with imprisoned Nelson Mandela. But lesser known are the secret talks that take place in a rural English manor house. Both sides may win or lose all, including their own lives. Botha learns of the British talks and, with the inevitable demise of apartheid, he intends to control the endgame by using the tactics of divide and rule. Against all the odds, a precious arena of frail trust between the...
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