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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to the Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by...
2) 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.
4) Servants
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. This film follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government...
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In eighteenth-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Iroquois friend Mani are sent by the King to investigate a beast that is slaughtering women and children in the countryside.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Samuel Allen, a 1960s rock and roller finds himself in jail. Years of anger and blame toward organized religion have led him down a road of rebellion. In a moment of divine intervention, a judge dismisses drug charges against him under the pretense that Samuel speaks to local schools and churches about the dangers of drugs. Given a second chance, he follows in his father's footsteps, overcoming the influence of a powerful church leader with a personal...
7) Golda
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to face. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian reporter on his first overseas assignment, is befriended by a Eurasian cameraman, Billy Kwan, with connections in high places. Hamilton soon gains an entree to Indonesian Communist Party leaders, as well as insight into Jakarta's grim realities on the eve of a major political upheaval.
10) Hunt
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1980s, two agents in Korean Central Intelligence uncover an assassination plot as they hunt for a North Korean spy in their organization.
11) Frances
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
p2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This biopic explores the true story of Frances Farmer, a mold-breaking actress from Seattle who moved to Hollywood, Calif., and gained notoriety for her unconventional attitude. After being lured to New York under false pretenses, dealing with her overbearing mother and an addiction to alcohol lead to a mental collapse. Institutionalized, Farmer is abused by patients and staff alike. Following her release, Farmer hosts a local Indianapolis TV show...
12) Spinning gold
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs., 17 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
What do the rock band KISS, Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have in common? They all rose to their musical heights under the watchful ear of the music industry's most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records.
13) Jesus revolution
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
The story of one young hippie's quest in the 1970s for belonging and liberation that leads not only to peace, love, and rock and roll but that sets into motion a new counterculture crusade a Jesus Movement changing the course of history. Inspired by a true movement, it tells the story of a young Greg Laurie being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene in the 1970s. Laurie and a sea of young people descend on sunny Southern California to redefine...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy in Hatsumomo and she is rescued by Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive...
15) The forger
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Berlin, 1940. Cioma Schönhaus is a young Jewish man who won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma audaciously adopts the identity of a marine officer to escape being deported like his family before him. Drawing on his art school background, he joins a network of underground rescuers and becomes infamous for his masterfully forged IDs, created with just a brush, some...
16) To hell and back
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As an American soldier's bravery during World War II brings him glory and fame, he must face the deaths of his fellow soldiers and their legacy.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (1 hr., 42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson persuades his colleagues to fund the CIA's efforts to arm the Mujahideen and faces the repercussions of the operation.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adapted from Sandra Schulberg's monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five...
19) Emily
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Tells the story of Emily Brontë as a young woman struggling within the confines of social expectations and yearning for creative and personal freedom.
20) Mudbound
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. +‡e1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families -- one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers -- are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer...
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