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61) Gotti
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story follows infamous crime boss John Gotti's rise to become the 'Teflon Don' of the Gambino Crime Family in New York City. Spanning three decades and recounted by his son John Jr., it examines Gotti's tumultuous life as he and his wife attempt to hold the family together amongst tragedy and multiple prison sentences.
Series
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
The epic true story of Sir James Brooke, the British adventurer who became King of Sarawak in the 1840's and embarked on a lifelong crusade to end piracy and head-hunting - only to face charges of murder and piracy himself. In 1839, Brooke flees Victorian England to explore Borneo. After a pirate attack, Brooke allies with rival princes to seize a rebel fort. To save prisoners from beheading, Brooke agrees to be crowned Rajah. James begs the Royal...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1929 and Dictator Benito Mussolini is still faced with the twenty-year long war waged by Bedouin patriots to establish of the "Fourth Shore." Omar Mukhtar: a teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, fights against his oppressors and commits himself to a war that cannot be won in his lifetime. With Omar Mukhtar as their inspirational leader, the Bedouin troops fight on against the Italian Army.
65) The last emperor
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"The life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne in 1908 at the age of three, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval within and without the walls of the Forbidden City."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 907
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
G.W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director's native Germany and beyond. Digging into the trenches with four infantrymen stationed in France in the final months of World War I, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, and the disillusion...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
There's gold in California, and greedy mine owners blast the state's majestic mountains with high-pressure power hoses to unleash the glittery wealth - even if the process may create rampaging floods on local farmlands. A sweeping historical epic, tells the true story of the 1870s through the lens of a romance between a mining engineer and a wealthy landowner's daughter.
69) Freedom
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation. The Underground Railroad guide the family on their journey north to Canada. 100 years earlier in 1748 the Captain of a slave trader sails from Africa with a cargo of slaves bound for America. On board is Samuel's great grandfather whose survival is tied to the fate of the Captain. The Captain creates...
70) Il Divo
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
He is the most enigmatic and feared politician that Italy has had for 50 years. At the height of his power, this seven-time Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti's, has been accused of masterminding a shocking Vatican/Mafia/Neo-Fascist conspiracy while ordering the assassinations of judges, journalists and even members of his own political party. An incredible true story of corruption and murder.
71) Call Jane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the only available alternative, helmed by fierce advocates...
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice, one that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation. Extended Cut. Special...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For two years the Civil War has been elsewhere. Now Confederate forces are nearby, looting and burning. It is time to fight back, Jess Birdwell's neighbors insist. Yet Birdwell, a Quaker, knows there must be a better way to settle things.
74) Strike
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Russian
Description
Mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation....
75) The conspirator
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, planned the simultaneous...
76) A perfect day
Series
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's just another day on the job for a band of badass combat zone rescue workers as they defy death and confront war's absurdities. The setting is 1995, somewhere in the Balkans. Over the course of 24 breathless hours, Mambru leads his team of humanitarians, including hard-bitten, wisecracking veteran B and new recruit Sophie, as they deal with a most unexpected crisis, layers of bureaucratic red tape, and the reappearance of Mambru's old flame.
77) To hell and back
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history.
78) 54
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Just another kid with big ambitions, Shane O'Shea was like countless others, stuck at the end of the line outside New York's infamous Studio 54 Disco. But when he finally gets a foot in the door, it doesn't take him long to experience 54.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A personal look from the soldiers' point of view of one of today's most controversial topics. Shot firsthand by the soldiers of Lima Company, the hardest hit combat unit in Iraq, this features an honest and heartbreaking glimpse at today's state of war.
80) Kundun
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama, and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history. Powerfully told, deeply spiritual and visually elegant, the film chronicles the life of the young Dalai Lama as he matures in both age and learning.
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