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2) The cut
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It follows the journey of one father's search through the Ottoman Empire for his two daughters after they are separated during the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Forced from his home in Mardin, Nazareth gets word that his daughters may still be alive and he travels the globe in search for them. His odyssey takes him from the Mesopotamian deserts to Havana and finally to the barren prairies of North Dakota.
3) El Topo
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It was the landmark cult film that began the Midnight movie phenomena of the counterculture crazy 1970s. El Topo must defeat his four sharp-shooting rivals on a ever-increasingly bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
365 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Hudiksvall, January 2006, police find eighteen people massacred in a small village. They think it's the work of a mad man but Birgitta and August believe they were killed by the same person who killed their mother.
5) Red winter
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Formats
Description
In 1920s Russia, a deserter from the Red Army returns home to find his village empty, the men murdered, and the women and children gone, and searches the forests in the bitter cold, desperate to find his wife and sons.
6) Nitram
Publisher
Ifc Films
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nitram is an isolated young man living with his parents in Australia until he meets an eccentric heiress. What follows is a gripping portrait of nihilism and violence.
Author
Publisher
Armida Publications Ltd
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Description
Khatoun creates beautiful dresses that leave her customers' husbands dizzy with desire, while her sister in law Ferida cooks sumptuous feasts to sustain a growing and lovingly described group of relatives and the waifs and strays they adopt. The date is creeping nearer to 1915 and the genocide perpetrated on the Armenian people in Turkey. When the events of those years start to unfold, the traditions and lives of the Armenian people are slowly yet...
8) Carandiru
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Sa?o Paulo's House of Detention, locally known as Carandiru. An oncologist arrives at the jail to test patients for HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding, and rampant circulation of drugs, the doctor comes to realize the internal power structure among the prisoners. Narratives develop, including the attempted murder of Dagger, the solitary confinement of Chico, and the romance between Lady Di and Too Bad. The doctor eventually begins...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
x, 405 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches, raised by the tribe, and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and...
Author
Formats
Description
"On Easter Sunday of 1873, just eight years after the Civil War ended, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed would reach the highest court in the land. Yet, following one of the most ghastly and barbaric incidents of mass murder in American history, not a single person was convicted. The opinion issued by the Supreme Court in US v. Cruikshank...
Publisher
Film Movement LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Munyurangabo: "After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Their friendship, however, is tested when Sangwa's parents disapprove of Munyurangabo, warning that 'Hutus and Tutsis are supposed to be enemies'"--Container.
Lucky Life: "A group of friends travel to the beach in hopes of encouraging Jason who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Some time later,...
Author
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xxxii, 264 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"In late September 1919, black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas, to protest unfair settlements for their cotton crops from white plantation owners. Local law enforcement broke up their meeting, and the next day a thousand white men from the Delta - and troops of the U. S. Army - converged on the area. The result was a massacre. Contemporary estimates of African American deaths ranged from 20 to an even more horrifying 856. And white officials...
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