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1) Bon voyage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the premiere of her latest picture Viviane finds herself with a dead man in her apartment. Fre?de?ric is a writer who's been falsely accused of murder, thanks to Viviane. Viviane has fled Paris for Bordeaux with a cabinet minister, and once Fre?de?ric escapes from prison, he is not far behind. Once they reach the city, which is in chaos, they become entangled in a plot involving a rickety physicist, his endlessly resourceful assistant, an...
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"... explores how the Al Saud family maintains its hold on power in the face of growing tensions between Islam and modernity. Through interviews with members of the royal family, government officials, and other experts from Saudi Arabia and the U.S., the two-hour documentary also traces America's relations with the Saudi royal family from their first alliance in the 1930s through September 11 and beyond to the present day"--Container.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Grammy-winning lead singer of System of a Down, Serj Tankian helps to arouse a political revolution on the other side of the world, encouraging Armenia's struggle for democracy through his music and message
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A snow lion is a mythic beast of Tibetan legend. As a protector of the nation, the snow lion is emblazoned on the Tibetan flag. Today the Tibetan flag is outlawed in its own homeland. Ten years in the making, filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are powerfully chronicled through riveting personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images...
11) Beyond Rangoon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young San Francisco widow is swept into a political uprising in Burma after her sister reluctantly drags her on a tour of southeast Asia.
12) The great game
Publisher
Icarus Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An elegant political thriller that makes much use of its stellar cast, particularly in the performance of Andre Dussollier, who commits to his character's malevolence with relish.
13) Rosewater
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (1 hr. 44 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who relentlessly interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
14) Wah-Wah
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the life of actor/director Richard E. Grant's life during the 1960s, when Swaziland was becoming independent of Great Britain. Told through the eyes of a 12-year-old child.
15) Tickling giants
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the Arab Spring in Egypt, a cardiologist-turned-comedian tests the limits of free press with his television comedy show.
16) The party's over
Publisher
RB Pub
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This documentary examines how the American political process addresses, and often fails to address, the country's most pressing issues. The film follows Philip Seymour Hoffman as a concerned citizen on an uncensored journey of politics in America.
17) Blind chance
Series
Criterion collection volume 772
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Shows a man's life, following three paths he may have taken, as a doctor performing humanitarian deeds, as a political activist, and as a dissident.
Publisher
First Run Icarus Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Goebbels experiment lets the Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler talk directly to you as actor Kenneth Branagh reads pages of the diary he kept without interruption from 1924 to 1945.
19) Indochine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 156 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (19 cm.)
Description
Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner ?liane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, ?liane's...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism and reprisal. The Six Day War forever changed the politics...
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