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4) The sun
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
日本語
Description
Chronicles the events leading up to Emperor Hirohito's momentous speech, the historic renunciation of his divine status, and his meetings with General Douglas MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the occupying American forces, who advises his own president not to declare the Japanese leader a war criminal.
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"They were often treated as second class citizens, yet many (if not most), of the African American men who eventually joined the Tuskegee Institute volunteered to serve during World War II. Why? Find out in Red Rails: The Real Story of the Tuskegee Airmen, as the film takes you directly to the Tuskegee training base as it exists today. And through the use of archival footage transports you to the battles where some of Americas bravest men fought in...
6) Belfast
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
7) Richard II
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Richard II.
8) Corsage
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Deutsch
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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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Description
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal...
10) Misbehaviour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
The sensational true story of the Women's Liberation Movement's disruption of the 1970 Miss World pageant, an event watched by more than 100 million viewers, and which made headlines around the world. Not only that, when order was restored, the first woman of color was crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
11) Richard III
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Richard, Duke of Gloucester through a set of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward.
12) Amour Fou
Series
Film Movement volume 13, film 9
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Forever under-appreciated and melancholy, Heinrich is a young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all, and he sets about finding a woman to join him in his predetermined departure. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, the well-off but unremarkable Henrietta, fascinated by Heinrich's controversial "The Marquise of O," finds his offer intriguing, if a bit strange. And yet, she agrees to navigate...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. Erin Brockovich : "Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees." Disc 2. Hidden figures :...
Publisher
National Geographic Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fabled Romanovs, led by Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, ruled imperial Russia in high splendor, despite the disintegration of their divided, war-torn country. In 1918 the rise of Communism violently collided with the rule of royalty when the tsar, his beloved wife, and their children were murdered and buried in a secret grave. Story is told from newly discovered photographs and archival film.
Series
Cinedigm volume 14
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Indonesian
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Description
The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.
16) Russian ark
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Russian
Description
A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
Series
Controversial classics volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
True story of the Watergate break-in that led to the political scandal of the decade.
19) War and peace
Series
Criterion collection volume 983
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Russian
Description
A titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic tome in which the fates of three souls: the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha, collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars. Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, the director conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that...
20) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
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Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
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