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6-shooter film series Citadel Press film series Film Movement series Film Movement series ; v. 14, film 11 Film Movement series ; v. 4, film 2 Film Movement series ; v. 9, film 7 Film Movement series ; year 7, film 5 Films of Sergei Paradjanov Soothing sounds of nature series Sundance film seriesFilter By Series
6-shooter film series Citadel Press film series Film Movement series Film Movement series ; v. 14, film 11 Film Movement series ; v. 4, film 2 Film Movement series ; v. 9, film 7 Film Movement series ; year 7, film 5 Films of Sergei Paradjanov Soothing sounds of nature series Sundance film seriesSummary: Francis Barrett grew up in a cluttered trailer park among a group of poor gypsies, who are scorned by Irish society. Against all odds, Francis participates in the 1996 Olympics and represents Ireland. An unflinching tribute to an unlikely hero who is a boxing champion and national hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUSummary: Lermontov's famous fable tells of Ashik Kerib, the wandering minstrel who is trying to earn enough money to marry the girl he loves. But when the father of his beloved spurns him, Ashik is forced to roam the land for 1,001 nights.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: The Georgians' repeated efforts at building a fortress against invaders fail until a fortune teller remembers an old prophecy that the son of her erstwhile lover must be bricked up alive in order for the fortress to stand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEGKaufman, Charlie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Newmarket Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4372 KAUSummary: 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: The true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church; Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope Jean Paul II- and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JEWLeung, Tony.
Summary: In 208 A.D., General Cao Cao leads an army to destroy two warlords who stand in his way, but the warlords band together to take on the giant army and the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnet 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: Daisato transforms himself into a stocky, stick-wielding giant who is several stories high in order to defend Japan and its citizens. However, unlike his predecessors, who were all national heroes, he is an outcast among the people he protects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIGSummary: Svetla, a strong-willed widow, lives alone in a small Bulgarian village close to the Turkish border. She has recently lost her job as a teacher due to the lack of families with young children. One day, while hunting in a forest, she encounters an African refugee, Bamba, who is trying to reach Germany, and will bring about a dramatic turn in her life. Reluctantly, she offers him hospitality, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEASummary: Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GENSummary: At the height of international tension between America and Iran, Kevin Sheppard, a charismatic African-American basketball player accepts an offer to play professional basketball in Iran. What begins as a desire to "explore the unknown" ends in an emotional roller-coaster as he forms an unlikely alliance with three young Iranian women against the backdrop of revolutionary social upheaval in Iran.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IRASummary: A man accidentally finds a time machine and travels back in time where he is involved in a mystery filled with murders, terror, and another version of himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIMBrode, Douglas
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 BROSummary: Bursting with idealism, Melanie Pröschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city. Desperate to fulfil her hopes, Melanie intends to do everything the right way. Politely she introduces herself to her neighbours with homemade schnapps. At her first day of school she gives a very ambitious speech for her colleagues. She wants to be a 'fresh breeze'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Mouvement 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORSummary: After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. From two separate ethnic groups, their friendship is tested when Sangwa's wary parents disapprove of Munyurangabo, warning that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUNSummary: Afghanistan 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antares and his men's determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NEISummary: This fateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s and subsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalist Emil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous Jewish movie star wife Hana. When the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established, Hana's career is cut short and Emil's radio station put under German control. Emil chooses to collaborate with the occupiers in order...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROSummary: John lives with his mother, Jean, in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager existence as a taxi driver. After finding his mother unconscious from yet another night of binge drinking, John learns that without treatment, she will not have much longer to live. Desperate to save their broken family, he offers his services to a petty criminal in order to pay for Jean's costly rehab treatment,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLASummary: A young Dublin taxi driver gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from addiction and provide for his younger brother with Down syndrome.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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Summary: Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: Billie is a 15-year-old girl who fantasizes Billie Holiday as a sort of fairy godmother. Billie has to navigate the evolving challenges of her life while she plays mother to her 11-year-old brother, Nico. They meet up with another adolescent, run away from home, and together roam the area free from their parents' watchful eye. They discover freedom and enchantment among the boats and railway...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021