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Pub. Date
2014
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
From legendary action director Tsui Hark and the creators of international smash hit, Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame comes the captivating tale of Dee Renjie's beginnings in the Imperial police force. His very first case, investigating reports of a sea monster terrorizing the town, reveals a sinister conspiracy of treachery and betrayal, leading to the highest reaches of the Imperial family.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
From their self-imposed exile in Holland to their perilous crossing of the Atlantic, to their first year in the new world, Desperate Crossing is the definitive story of how the Pilgrims came to live and prosper in an unfamiliar land.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 2001, two ordinary football teams met on a field to play sixty minutes of football. But this was no ordinary game. This was the Army-Navy game that would occur just weeks after the attacks of September 11. This film looks back at that historic game and profiles the journeys of three of its players who dedicated themselves to this country.
25) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy about a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944.
26) Che
Series
Criterion Collection volume 496
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
A portrait of the man who overthrew a dictatorship and became a revolutionary before his life was ended. Includes both Che Part One: The Argentine and Part Two: Guerrilla and bonus features.
28) The journey
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland. Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
29) A quiet passion
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius, wit, intellectual independence, and pathos only came to be recognized after her death.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them however don't take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to Palestine, her family starts disputing. Her father Aaron can't see any reason to leave Germany. But when Michael, Leah's younger brother, indicates that he actually is an ardent admirer of the national socialist movement, the...
31) The last samurai
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
32) Path to war
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Retraces the events, including the Vietnam War, occurring between President Johnson's inaugural in 1965 and his decision not to seek another presidential term in 1968.
Publisher
[Distributed by] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
עברית
Description
"In 1982, during the First Lebanon War, a tank manned by a novice crew of Israeli soldiers is led into a town previously bombed by the air force. The situation spins out of control, testing the mental toughness of the men inside a confined space with only the lens of a periscopic gun sight to see the madness outside."--Container.
Publisher
RG Entertainment Ltd
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of America's growing disapproval of current economic policies, the film takes a provocative yet entertaining look at the nation's deeply depressed economy using the words and actions of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. It explains in plainest terms the choice between 'Reaganomics' and 'Obamanomics'. Ultimately, it's a call to action for Americans who care about their children's future and the future of the United...
Publisher
Kim Stim
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Chile 1990, at the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, a group of adolescents living in a commune, attempt to make sense of their own burgeoning desires and tangled relationships while the adults prepare for the first New Year's Eve under the promise of democracy.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Pope Julius II commissions Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.
37) Henry IV, Part I
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
After the murder of Richard II, Henry assumes the throne, and is immediately confronted with rebellion by Owen Glendower, Douglas of Scotland, Northumberland and his son Hotspur. The play also treats the moral development of the king's son Hal (later Henry V) as he appears to waste his youth in London taverns in the company of the irresponsible Sir John Falstaff.
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In 1934 by Federal statute, The National Archives of the United States were created to be the nation's record keeper. Its mission is unique--to serve American democracy by preserving and making available to the people the permanently valuable records of the U.S. Government. These include famous documents, and billions of pages of textual materials, more than 20 million still pictures and 365,000 reels of motion picture film and 110,000 video recordings,...
40) The concubine
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Korean
Description
Set during the early Joseon Dynasty in Korea, Hwa-Yeon, a minister's daughter, and Kwon-Yoo, a commoner are deeply in love, but to escape a life of poverty, Hwa-Yeon is forced to offer herself as one of the king's concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately captivated by her. The Grand Prince Seong-won, a powerful, lust-filled megalomaniac, and Kwon-Yoo, who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-Yeon is exposed.
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