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Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
2) The hour: 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Rejoining The Hour a year on in 1957, the team are still striving to broadcast the stories they believe in, grappling with the disturbing threat of the Cold War and a country in the grip of unsettling, rapid change. Bel is still single and determined not to get involved with another married man, but finds herself taking on her adversary Bill Kendall, an ITV producer whose magnetic charm she can't help but find irresistible. Hector has risen to the...
Publisher
Mangusta Productions
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Do you shape the world or does the world shape you? Is freedom something we are born with or something we must work to attain? Offering a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH is going to make you think again about what it means to be free. Drawing on the best minds in philosophy, history, psychology, physics and economics, it employs decades of evidence to interrogate what we are, where we are and where we want to...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
5) Charm City
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Delivering a candid portrait of citizens, police, community advocates, and government officials on the frontlines during three years of unparalleled, escalating violence in Baltimore. The film highlights the positive actions undertaken by groups and individuals, who come together to rebuild, heal, and forge a better way forward.
Series
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc. and Universal Television LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Oscar and Emmy-winner Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, comes a sprawling HBO drama centered on the confict between old and new money in New York's glittering high society during the late 19th century. In a time of immense economic change, where fortunes are amassed and lost in the blink of an eye, Marion Brook (Louisa Jacobson), the orphaned daughter of a Union general, moves to Manhattan and becomes entangled in the social war...
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