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Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter selection sheet.
Description
In the year 79 AD, the ancient seaside city of Pompeii was buried beneath a mountain of volcanic ash and pumice when nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius furiously erupted. More than two thousand of Pompeii's citizens lost their lives. For almost 1,700 years, until its rediscovery in 1748, Pompeii lay hidden - a city and its people suspended in time. Now we can see the streets and buildings almost as they were on the day Pompeii died- an incredible snapshot...
3) Suffragette
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
4) Francofonia
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the collaboration between two men during World War II that preserved the artwork at the Louvre.
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (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.
8) Happening
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Annie Ernaux recounts her experience with abortion during a time when it was illegal in 1960s France.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005, 1982
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (296 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
10) Jimmy's hall
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1921 Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream; but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity its socialist and free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close.
11) 9th company
Publisher
WellGo USA
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film is based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from boot camp directly into the war in Afghanistan. Real war is not like boot camp at all. This inexperienced company is sent to defend a difficult position, a task which may be beyond their capabilities.
12) John Rabe
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of a German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanking Massacre in China by courageously negotiating a safety zone to protect innocent civilians from the Japanese Army. Drawing from John Rabe's 1937 diaries as source material, Florian Gallenberger has crafted a portrait of a man revered as a saint in China to this day and yet never rewarded for his courage during his lifetime.
13) Corsage
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I, who rules as the Queen of England. Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each court imperil both Queens, driving them apart, as each...
15) Argo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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 midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
16) Journey's end
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a group of British soldiers find themselves fighting in a trench during World War I, they learn that their commanding officer is losing his mental composure.
Publisher
CJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1920s Korea, a group of resistance fighters tries to destroy Japanese facilities in Seoul, while a Korean-born Japanese police officer is torn between doing his job to stop them and feeling sympathetic to their cause.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, the polyamorous relationship between his wife and his mistress, the creation of his beloved comic book character Wonder Woman, and the controversy the comic generated.
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