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1) Green Dragon
Pub. Date
2001.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Set in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, this poignant drama follows Tai (Don Duong), a young refugee navigating life in a makeshift camp in the U.S. while awaiting resettlement. His uncle Minh (Long Nguyen) takes on the role of camp manager, helping the displaced find hope in a foreign land. Tai forms an unlikely friendship with a compassionate cook, Addie (Forest Whitaker), who helps him heal from the trauma of war.
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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From director Peter Mullan comes a powerful drama based on true events. Set in 1964 Ireland, the film follows three young women—Margaret (Anne-Marie Duff), Bernadette (Nora-Jane Noone), and Rose (Dorothy Duffy)—who are sent to a Magdalene asylum for being deemed “fallen” by society. Inside the oppressive institution, they endure harsh labor and dehumanizing treatment under the watchful eye of the sadistic Sister Bridget (Geraldine McEwan)....
Pub. Date
2025.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Based on the best-selling novel, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL is a captivating tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana. Two sisters, Anne (Portman) and Mary (Johansson), are driven by their ambitious family to seduce the king of England (Bana) in order to advance their position in court. What starts as an opportunity for the girls to increase the family fortune becomes a deadly rivalry to capture...
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
On a poor New Hampshire farm in 1860’s America, family ties are tested during the Thanksgiving holiday when a wealthy, bitter woman pays an unexpected visit to her estranged daughter and grandchildren. As she attempts to control the family with money and social influence, secrets of the past are revealed—ones that could tear the family apart forever, or finally reunite it for a long-awaited, old-fashioned Thanksgiving. Inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s...
5) Origin
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (141 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, ORIGIN chronicles the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she investigates a global phenomenon of epic proportions.Portrayed by Academy Award nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (“King Richard”), Isabel experiences unfathomable personal loss and love as she crosses continents and cultures to craft one of the defining American books of our time. Inspired...
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In "Enemies, A Love Story," adapted from Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel, Holocaust survivor Herman Broder (Ron Silver) juggles relationships with three women in post-war New York. Caught between his current wife, his mistress, and a woman presumed dead, Herman grapples with guilt, love, and identity. As his tangled web of lies unravels, Herman must confront the ghosts of his past to find redemption and forge a path forward in a world haunted by memories...
7) W.E
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Madonna's beautifully crafted film tells the story of a lonely New Yorker who begins to explore the ultimate love story: King Edward VIII's abdication of the throne for the woman he loved.
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (133 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Academy Award winners Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave star with Academy Award nominees Glenn Close, Winona Ryder in an director Bille August's vision of Isabel Allende's passionate, epic novel of love, family and romance THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS.
9) CBGB
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
CBGB looks at New York’s dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.
10) The War is Over
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (461 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this touching real-life Italian drama, an engineer and a group of educators care for Jewish orphans after World War II. Adapted from Aharon Megged's "The Story of the Selvino Children: Journey to the Promised Land."
11) Padre Pio
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, historic violence, and the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, but victorious. Padre Pio (Shia Labeouf) also arrives, to a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry evoking an aura of compelling charisma, saintliness, and storied visions of Jesus, Mary,...
13) Papillon
Pub. Date
1973.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (151 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this harrowing epic of courage, endurance and escape, one man is determined to live free--or die--the true story of Henri Charrière, also known as PAPILLON.Steve McQueen and Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman star in this biography of a man unjustly convicted of murder and sent to prison in French Guiana. Charriere (McQueen) earns the nickname Papillon for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, but the name might just as well apply to his need to...
Pub. Date
1934.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Bearing a child out of wedlock was punishable in 17th century Massachusetts by being forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A,' but unwed mother Hester Prynne, who was born to a noble family, is determined to rise above her situation.
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials. The experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Subtitled “Chronicle of a Present Absentee,” this humorous, heartbreaking film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention) is set among the Israeli Arab community and shot largely in homes and places in which Suleiman’s family once lived. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections,...
17) A Radiant Girl
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a 19-year-old aspiring actress without a care in the world. Her family watches her discover friends, new love and a passion for the theater, all the while without her realizing that time is running out. Legendary French actress Sandrine Kiberlain makes her directorial debut with this allegorical coming-of-age drama set in Nazi-occupied France, that is in turns enchanting and devastating, anchored by a star-making lead...
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Casanova, exiled to London, becomes enamoured with Marianne de Charpillon, a young courtesan, to the point where he loses interest in all other women. She refutes his advances to become the one true, unrequited love of his life.
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of national conflict, loss and trauma, THOSE WHO REMAINED reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary.
20) Fanny Hill
Pub. Date
1964.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Cult filmmaker Russ Meyer takes on directorial duties in Zugsmith's adaptation of the notorious erotic classic FANNY HILL. Set in pre-Victorian London, young Fanny finds herself taken in by a madame at one of the city's most elite brothels. A strange mix of Zugsmith's surreal slapstick and Meyer's trademark buxom beauties and thoughtful satire, FANNY HILL is an over-the-top saga of low-rent thrills in high-brow settings.
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