Summary: When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIDSummary: Animated documentary about Amin Nawabi, who decides to reveal a secret from his past before marrying his husband and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC FLESummary: On the Bowery: A documentary film of men living on the Bowery. Depicts life inside the bars and on the sidewalks, the alcoholism and unemployment and life on the streets. Good times, wonderful times: This antiwar film predated Viet Nam, but had great impact in the sixties. The film cuts between documentary war footage and extemporized conversations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DISSummary: Tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, whom Demme first met and filmed in 1986. As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the 80's and early 90's in exile in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment [distributor] 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AGRSummary: Director Raouf blends the testimony of a group of Iranians with historical footage and original artwork to honour political activists from Iran.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Film Board of Canada 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRESummary: The hazardous journey of two Afghan boys as they travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in search of refuge in London, revealing the desperate measures people take to escape persecution and life-threatening conditions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: In Dublin, a young Nigerian girl, Esme Lukasa, is found dead at a bus stop opening an investigation into her violent death. This leads Inspector Jen Rooney and her team of investigating detectives to a Direct Provision Centre for asylum-seekers. It is soon discovered that another girl from the center has disappeared. The police enter a murky underworld of slumlords and traffickers to find out...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAKSummary: "Widely considered to be the last of his solo plays, 'The Tempest' is Shakespeare's final masterpiece, a tale of 'forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment' in which Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, conjures up a storm to lure his perfidious brother to the enchanted island on which he and his daughter Miranda have spent 12 years in exile"--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines immigration policy under both the Trump and Obama administrations, investigates the origins of zero tolerance, and reveals the journeys and voices of children who were separated from their parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEPSummary: Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world one sentence at a time by recording her story on the fortunes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRESummary: The incredible story of thousands of Jews and their dramatic escape from the Nazis to China during World War II. Narrated by Martin Landau.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHASummary: In March 2002, a state TV signal in China was hacked by members of the banned spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal is to counter the government's narrative about their practice. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC ETESummary: Explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost Boys" from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. Chronicles their triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and a relocation to the United States, where the Lost Boys build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping friends and family they have left behind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GODSummary: After the fall of Saigon, millions were dead and nearly another million were sent to re-education camps. From the jungles of Vietnam to the streets of Southern California, learn what happened to the Vietnamese people after the 21-year civil war ended.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ImaginAsian Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JOUSummary: This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TEMHurt, John
Summary: Based on the true story of two East German families who built a hot air balloon to escape from Communist East Germany.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HURSummary: In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIT RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie KiteSummary: Set during the Intifada that began in 2000, the film follows the lives of four Palestinian families living in the Duhayshah Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNTSummary: In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to the country. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV's wildly popular American idol-style series, Afghan star. Like its Western predecessors, people compete for a cash prize and record deal. More surprisingly, the contest is open to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFGSummary: A quirky gaggle of Western hairstylists armed with blow dryers and designer scissors improbably open a school to teach eager Afghan women the high art of fixing hair. The women of Kabul embrace the beauty lessons with unbridled hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BEA
Summary: Kindhearted, but confused activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ISummary: "Leaving the devastation of World War II behind them, a little girl and her brother travel from Europe to Israel in search of family, hope, and future. Placed in a refugee camp on their arrival they are confronted by a world of colorful characters whose intrigues both terrify and tantalize them and are forced to face the difficult realities of a new land. Powerfully reflecting the complexities...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sisu Home Entertainment 2005