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1) Shadowlands
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, C.S. Lewis is a world-renowned writer and professor. Unmarried, he leads a gentleman₂s life filled by intellectual pursuits, remaining untouched by any great passion until he meets Joy Gresham. Slowly he opens his heart to this woman, and their romance shatters the walls of his cloistered world. But life is made up of delicate balances, and Lewis must confront a terrible truth: that a heart awakened to great love is also opened...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Famously leading a team of codebreakers, mathematician Alan Turing created a computer capable of breaking the codes devised by Germany's Enigma machine during WWII, significantly contributing to shortening the war, and saving millions of lives. Only a few years later, British authorities ignorant of his contributions convicted him for the crime of homosexuality, significantly contributing to shortening his life.
3) Priscilla
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...
5) Walker
Series
Criterion collection volume 423
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
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