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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Handmaid June finds herself once again in resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead after opting not to flee to Canada with her baby at the end of the second season. Now, she will struggle to strike back against the regime despite overwhelming odds. This season there are startling reunions, betrayals and a journey to the terrifying heart of Gilead that will force all of the characters to take a stand, guided by one defiant prayer: Blessed be the...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. In season two, Offred and all our characters will fight against or succumb to this dark truth.
Publisher
Spiral Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"[C]aptures the state of the world's most popular art form today by tying three narratives from around the globe together with insights from venerable filmmakers and ordinary moviegoers. An aspiring actress in Mumbai tries to break into Bollywood; two friends in Scotland put on a film festival unlike any other; a young Tunisian director awaits the premiere of his controversial film. These stories are woven together with archival footage, interviews,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prix Goncourt Winner: A "superb" novel of a Syrian immigrant in France and his two sons (The New York Times Book Review).
Older Brother is the poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons try to integrate themselves into a society that doesn't offer them many opportunities.
The father, an atheist communist who moved from Syria to France for his studies and stayed for love, has worked for decades driving a taxi to support his...
Series
Creating freedom volume episode 1
Publisher
Mangusta Productions
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Do you shape the world or does the world shape you? Is freedom something we are born with or something we must work to attain? Offering a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH is going to make you think again about what it means to be free. Drawing on the best minds in philosophy, history, psychology, physics and economics, it employs decades of evidence to interrogate what we are, where we are and where we want to...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Black, favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this book, the author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe. In the beginning was black, he tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated...
8) Adieu Paris
Series
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
It tells the story of eight friends, mostly in their seventies, who meet up for an annual lunch that has become a ritual over the decades. They are the so-called self-appointed 'kings of Paris': national treasures, masterpieces in peril, whose humor and self-mockery have never changed. Tender and cruel, they love and hate each other. But their long-established relationships take on new meanings when an intruder steps in.
9) The world according to Monsanto: pollution, corruption, and the control of the world's food supply
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
""As this powerful book makes clear, Monsanto's innovations create more problems than they solve-above all by helping to concentrate the food system in ever fewer hands, with baleful consequences for the world's small-scale farmers. It's the kind of reporting we need more of, and one hopes it will be at least a partial antidote to all the slick commercials with smiling peasants." --Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy" ""We are what we eat, and what...
10) Footloose
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When city-boy Ren McCormick finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing has been banned, he revolts with best friend Willard and the minister's daughter to change everyone's mind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 986
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
An enchanting countryside comedy about the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker whose wife has run off wirth a shepherd. Because the baker is upset and cannot bring himself to work, the scandal snowballs and engulfs the entire town.
Publisher
[Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.]
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Meet George Jetson and his quirky family: wife Jane, son Elroy, and daughter Judy. Living in the automated, push-button world of the future hasn't made life any easier for the harried husband and father, who gets into one comical misadventure after another!
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Features former 'Economic Hitman' and New York Times bestselling author, John Perkins, along with the Venus Project, an organization for social redesign created by industrial designer Jacque Fresco. Broken into four chapters, the first explains 'Fractional reserve banking' and how debt and bankruptcy are inevitable realities. The second exposes various levels of international corruption via the financial/corporate system.
Series
MGM DVD volume 0
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized "return to traditional values." As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred ... is a Handmaid in the Commander's household, belonging to the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last...
Series
Ultimate Oliver Stone collection volume 1 1986-1991
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a young man who volunteered for the Vietnam War, was wounded, and returned paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He later became a new voice for those disenchanted with the war.
Publisher
Hear Music
Pub. Date
[2009], p2008
Language
English
Description
Documentary film follows Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls from post-apartheid South Africa, through the ancient sites of the Middle East, to the remote beauty of the Himalayas and beyond. They filmed and recorded more than 100 musicians, largely outdoors in parks, plazas and promenades, in doorways, on cobblestone streets and amid hilly pueblos. Each captured performance creates a new mix in which essentially the artists are all performing together,...
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