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41) Huda's salon
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Reem, a young mother married to a jealous man, goes to Huda's salon in Bethlehem. But this ordinary visit turns sour when Huda, after having put Reem in a shameful situation, blackmails her to have her work for the secret service of the occupiers, and thus betray her people.
42) Staged
Description
David Tennant and Michael Sheen star as two actors whose West End play has been put on hold due to Covid-19, but whose director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.
Pub. Date
1951.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many trials, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who invests money and facilities to develop it. However, when the news of Stratton's invention breaks, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves...
Pub. Date
1950.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Professor Willingdon is a scientist engaged on highly secret Government research. When he sends a letter to 10 Downing Street threatening to blow up the Houses of Parliament within 7 days unless the Prime Minister agrees to his demands, it is at first dismissed as a hoax. When Willingdon disappears, however, alarm bells ring, and soon all of London is hunting for this modern day Guy Fawkes. Winner of Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated...
45) The Ring
Pub. Date
1927.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Jack 'One Round' Sanders is a young boxer traveling the country with a boxing booth in a fair. After his ex wife dumps him for the reigning champion, he falls in love with the beautiful cashier, his only goal being to beat all challengers, in and off the ring. *"Arguably the finest of Hitchcock's silent films." Geoff Andrew, **Time Out***
46) Deep Red
Pub. Date
1975.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems…
47) If
Pub. Date
1968.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott...
Pub. Date
1952.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The story of aviation exploration and of the human problems which beset those on earth who can only sit and wait. John Ridgefield, pioneer airman and visionary, manufactures jet planes designed to fly faster than sound into a new world, where speeds of two thousand miles an hour may be commonplace. But his daughter, Susan, believing that human life is more important than human progress, condemns her father's aims and endeavors as senseless ambition....
49) Champagne
Pub. Date
1928.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock early in his career, the daughter of a millionaire disagrees with her father over a love affair, whereupon he pretends to have lost all his money, making it necessary for her to earn her own living. She gets work in cabaret, where her job is to sell the champagne out of which her father made his fortune.
50) The Skin Game
Pub. Date
1931.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, follows The Hillcrests, a wealthy family who have held their country estate for many generations. They cherish the traditions of the landed gentry and regard their neighbors, the Hornblowers, as new money; trades people who have fought their way up from the lowest section of society. The Hillcrests believe themselves the moral leaders of the community, and upon learning that the Hornblowers seek to dispossess...
51) 60 Days In
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
60 Days In offers an unprecedented look at life behind bars at Indiana's Clark County Jail as seven innocent volunteers are sent to live among its general population for 60 days.
52) The Frozen North
Pub. Date
1922.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (18 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Buster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama.
53) The Silent Enemy
Pub. Date
1930.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A documentary showing us the life of an Indian tribe, who has to decide where to head next in order to find food which became rare. The situation is hardened by the fact two of the men both want to marry the Chief's daughter…
54) College
Pub. Date
1927.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (66 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Buster Keaton goes back to school and stages a hilarious send-up of university life in COLLEGE. Keaton stars as Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. *"Buster on the playing field, failing gloriously at every sport but executing each one beautifully when he dashes to his girl's rescue,...
56) The Balloonatic
Pub. Date
1923.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
57) Safety Last
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him.
58) Arrowsmith
Pub. Date
1931.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
59) One Week
Pub. Date
1920.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (22 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
60) Heritage
Pub. Date
1935.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An epic scale narrative of Australian history from master filmmaker Charles Chauvel (Jedda), HERITAGE spans the earliest days of white settlement in 1788 across some fifty years to the 1930s. The story follows the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation....
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