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Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy and brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, for sentencing. The roaring crowd demands his death, so Pilate orders his crucifixion. Jesus is severely beaten and made to carry his cross up to Golgotha, the hill outside Jerusalem, where...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan...
6) The northman
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
A viking prince avenges the murder of his father.
7) Boat people
Series
Criterion collection volume 1113
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
After the communist takeover of Vietnam, a Japanese journalist revisits Vietnam to report on the life of its people after the war.
10) Lost illusions
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
When an aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris, he agrees to write positive reviews for bribes, and finds success at the expense of his conscience.
13) Dragon Inn
Series
Criterion collection volume 937
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
After he has the minister of defense executed, the Eunuch of the Emperor sends assassins after the man's children, but they are challenged by a mysterious group of fighters who seek justice.
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fonda stars as the young lawyer who put his integrity and humor to work for his fellow man.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life and work of renowned 18th-century German composer Johann Sebastian Bach are traced in this stirring biodrama. Narrated by Bach's wife Anna, the film is mostly comprised of set pieces in which Bach performs many of his works.
17) Call Jane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the only available alternative, helmed by fierce advocates...
18) Of mice and men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001, c1992
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
19) Matewan
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter index (1 sheet ; 19 cm.)
Description
A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
20) Hidden figures
Formats
Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
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