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1) Up the Women
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The welcome return of the hilarious suffragette sitcom, written by and starring Jessica Hynes. Under Margaret's passionate leadership, the hapless women of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women Suffrage are back in the Church Hall cooking up more schemes to attract attention to the worthy cause. The series is full of special guest stars, laugh out loud jokes, japes and plenty of physical comedy. It's a heart-warming celebration...
2) Macbeth
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
3) Klimt
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (John Malkovich), whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (496 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A moving and intimate insight into the colourful world of midwifery and family life in 1950s East London. The team at Nonnatus House return for a fifth series, in which Shelagh rushes to put together a children's choir in time for a BBC broadcast from the church. Elsewhere Trixie, having battled through her issues with alcohol, finds a new purpose in her keep fit classes. And could friendship blossom into something more for vicar Tom Hereward and...
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Toronto, 1899. Aspiring young politician Mackenzie King (Dan Beirne) dreams of becoming the Prime Minister of Canada. But his romantic vacillation between a British soldier and a French nurse, exacerbated by a fetishistic obsession, may well bring about his downfall. In his quest for power, King must gratify the expectations of his imperious Mother, the hawkish fantasies of a war-mongering Governor-General, and the utopian idealism of a Québécois...
6) Silence
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (161 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Legendary director Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE tells the story of two Christian missionaries (Adam Driver and Oscar® nominee Andrew Garfield) who travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor (Academy Award® nominee Liam Neeson) at a time when Christianity was outlawed. When they are captured and imprisoned, both men are plunged into an odyssey that will test their faith, challenge their sanity and, perhaps, risk their very lives.
7) Chaplin
Pub. Date
1992.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (145 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A loving, grand scale portrait of the amazing life and times of Charlie Chaplin. His poverty-stricken childhood in England, his friendships, his many wives and scandalous affairs, and his pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover. Nominated for three **Academy Awards** and three **Golden Globe Awards** including Best Actor (Robert Downey Jr. ). Winner of Best Actor at the **BAFTA Awards.**
Pub. Date
1997.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A gripping tale of twenty-four Africans held captive in a slave ship after slavery is outlawed. Spurred on by a spector that lives in the ship, the captives are moved to a tragic and bloody uprising.
9) Copperhead
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (209 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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An epic adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel about morality, justice, love and faith as Hester Prynne bears the scarlet letter “A” for refusing to reveal the name of her lover and father of her illegitimate child.
12) Rising Free
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In 1887, a young woman, Nakomay, is on the run for her life throughout the vast terrain of the Oregon territory. Relentless persecution and devastating adversity drove her to a life of seclusion, having everyone she ever loved stripped from her grasp. A harrowing journey leads her into the arms of a gracious family that takes her in as one of their own. Over time, she begins to process through the pain she's buried deep within, learning what it truly...
13) Hotel Rwanda
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa. “One of the most inspirational films I’ve ever seen” (Richard Roeper, “Ebert & Roeper and the Movies”).
14) Emily
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (130 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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EMILY imagines Emily Brontë’s own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, Wuthering Heights. Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (135 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The 12th Century and the obsession of Henry II of England to find a successor, after the death of the heir to the throne, causes him, one Christmas, to summon his three remaining sons. Also summoned is his wife, the formidable Eleonor of Aquitaine, who he has kept imprisoned for the last 10 years. The fiery relationship between Henry II and Queen Eleonor is powerfully portrayed; their passions turn from tenderness to hurry as they scheme and cajole,...
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Winner of four Oscars® including "Best Picture" and "Best Actor," THE KING'S SPEECH is based on the true story of King George VI's quest to find his voice. Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter.
19) Esther
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Experience the Bible story of Esther, who infiltrated the King of Persia's harem in order to stop a planned genocide of Jewish people, saving many innocent lives.
20) Call the Midwife
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (313 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Based on the best selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth. Set in the 1950s, this six part series is a moving and intimate insight into the colourful world of midwifery and family life in London's East End. We are introduced to the local community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she lives and works as a midwife alongside the Nuns of the Order of St. Raymond of Nonnatus.
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