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Publisher
Excel Home Videos
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Hindi
Description
Story is set during the British rule over India. The farmers of India are taxed to the bone by the British. When Jack Russell announces that he will double the Lagaan (tax) from all villagers, they decide to oppose it. Leading the villagers is a young man named Bhuvan, who challenges the British to a game of cricket. The game pits veteran British cricket players against villagers, including Bhuvan, who have never played the game before, and do not...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The real-life adventures of a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. They try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespearean plays but can't compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry.
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The real-life adventures of a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. They try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespearean plays but can't compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatchers from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. Shot entirely on location in India.
Language
English
Description
Beset by the political tension of an unsettled year, Gandhi calls for British removal from India. Police Superintendent Ronald Merrick arrests an Indian news reporter. Daphne Manner arrives from London. Merrick vents his frustrations on Kumar in a vicious jailhouse beating. Daphne gives birth. Mildred Layton prepares for her daughter's wedding. The Governor finds out about Merrick's abuse. Sarah is seduced by an officer. Susan delivers a baby boy....
Series
Criterion collection volume 643
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. Besides affirming Hitchcock's genius, it gave the brilliant Peter...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
As deaths in Vancouver, Canada reach an all-time high, the Overdose Prevention Society opens its doors to a renegade supervised drug consumption site that employs active and former drug users. Its staff and volunteers do whatever it takes to save lives and give hope to a marginalized community in this intimate documentary that looks beyond the stigma of people who use fentanyl and other drugs.
Publisher
Fabulous Films, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Follows the highs and lows of Kurupt FM, one of West London's most talked about pirate radio stations (within a 0.2 mile radius of the transmitter). Led by self-proclaimed garage 'legend' MC Grindah, and his second-in-command DJ Beats, this hapless crew of social dropouts share the secrets behind running an illegal business and demonstrate that chasing your dreams is actually a full-time job"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tai A Chau symbolically rids itself of the last vestiges of the Old China. The town is represented by the Landlord Chan when it sells land to buy a freshwater pond. The community effort to improve the island's economic well-being brings together government representatives and the land people.
13) The whale
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This film tells the remarkable true story of a young, wild killer whale (an Orca) nicknamed Luna, who lost contact with his family on the coast of British Columbia and became famous around the world when he tried to make friends with human beings.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dashing detective William Murdoch must solve a holiday whodunit in this feature-length special of the award-winning mystery series set in Edwardian Toronto. Days before Christmas, Murdoch and his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden, travel to Victoria, British Columbia, to spend time with Murdoch's eccentric brother. But instead of a relaxing holiday with Jasper and his family, they end up investigating a murder at an archaeological site.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Saved! A century of art for everyone celebrates the work of the National Art Collections Fund (the Art Fund) during its first one hundred years. Since1903, the Art Fund has helped museums and galleries in he United Kingdom acquire more than half a million works of art. Ten of the greatest artworks bought with NACF help, among them Velasquez's 'Rokeby Venus' and the Beckett Casket, are celebrated by curators and guests including author Ben Okri, broadcasters...
17) The forgiven
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend's lavish weekend party, a wealthy London couple is involved in a tragic accident with a local boy. But when they attempt to cover up the incident, the boy's father arrives seeking justice.
18) Wah-wah
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the experiences of actor/director Richard E. Grant during the late 1960s in the British colonial community in Swaziland as that country was becoming independent. Portrays a community occupied with booze and adultery in an attempt to stave off boredom. Follows the divorce of young Ralphie's parents and his adjustment when he returns from boarding school two years later to find that his alcoholic father has married an American stewardess. Shows...
19) War requiem
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.
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