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Chan, Jackie Chao, Rosalind Moore, Julian Mullan, Peter Suliman, Ali Zhao, Wenzhuo Zuaa, IsabelSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONCSummary: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2017Summary: Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN AIRSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CUTSummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: Charlotte's web: When Wilbur the pig is terrified that he'll end up on the dinner table, his friend Charlotte the spider weaves words into her web to try and convince the farmer that Wilbur is too special a pig to kill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: In the sixteenth century in China, a commander and his newly promoted general devise a plan to rid the country's coastline of pirates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Inc 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GODSummary: This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VINSummary: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINChao, Rosalind
Summary: When a young woman is sold into marriage by her poor father, she instead winds up in an Idaho gold mining town, where she finds direction in her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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Summary: Elia Suleiman tells stories of the Israeli state from 1948 up to the present day, through the writings found in his father's diaries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIMSummary: The film tells the story of young Ramen Chef Masato who leaves his home and family's shop in Japan after his father dies in search of his mother's family and the recipes she left behind in Singapore. There he traces a culinary path of delicious signature dishes to find his estranged family across the sea. With the help of food blogger Miki, he learns the recipes of his mother's homeland and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAMMullan, Peter
Summary: Joseph, a widower who finds himself battling rage, earns a chance to turn his life around after meeting Hannah, a Christian worker at a charity shop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After the population is restored following Thanos' click, an unexpected tragedy forces a group of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years out of the shadows to reunite against mankind's most ancient enemy, the Deviants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ETECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ETECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ETEMoore, Julian
Summary: When the manager of a financially strained orphanage learns of a mysterious and generous grant, she travels from Calcutta to New York to meet the benefactor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AFTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AFTContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINSummary: After years as a political prisoner in a labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution, Lu returns to his devoted wife Feng, only to discover she has amnesia and is unable to recognize him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMZuaa, Isabel
Summary: A nurse living in the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, is hired as a nanny by a mysterious and wealthy woman who will soon be giving birth to a child, but their plans change one night beneath a full moon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOChan, Jackie
Summary: After an undercover spy agrees to babysit his girlfriend's children while she's out of town, his cover is blown and he must fight off a criminal while keeping the kids safe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010