Summary: In 1788, Mary Bryant, a starving young Cornwall girl, is convicted of a petty crime and sentenced to seven years in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay. When Mary initiates an escape, she embarks on an arduous four thousand-mile journey toward freedom in a tragic and triumphant story that would make her one of history's most fascinating and courageous unsung heroines.--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Timeless Media Group 2007

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Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008

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Summary: A student poet comes to terms with the aftermath of the riots and is arrested for dodging the draft.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2007

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Summary: A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YEE

Summary: The anchor of a popular news show flies to a small town in Ecuador to cover a story about a serial child killer. He saves a man after the town tries to lynch him. The man offers information about the case in exchange for a story about his innocence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2005

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Summary: When the murder of a penniless shopgirl is linked to the body of debutante Lady Alice Burnham, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Rupert Everett) immediately begins to piece together the clues.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHE

Summary: Dramatization of the life of a half caste torn between his Aboriginal roots and his desire to be part of white society. When he becomes an object of loathing and ridicule, he and his full blood Aborigine brother embark upon an odyssey of murdering whites before he is captured, tried, and executed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Industrial Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHA