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1) Rogue One
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English
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Action & Adventure (WPL-ADULT)
May the 4th Be With You
May the 4th Be With You Teen Fiction
May the Fourth Be With You!
May the 4th Be With You
May the 4th Be With You Teen Fiction
May the Fourth Be With You!
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Directly before the events of "A New Hope", a group of unlikely heroes, led by daring fugitive Jyn Erso and rebel spy Cassian Andor, band together for a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction, the Death Star.
Series
Criterion collection volume 838
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Español
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A dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Eleven-year-old Ofelia comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather, a sadistic captain in General Franco's army, hunts down Republican guerrillas who refuse to give up the fight. The violent reality in which she lives merges seamlessly with a fantastical interior world when Ofelia meets a...
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London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and refugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations. Torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, a London...
4) Confidence
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Hungarian
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1980's CONFIDENCE was nominated for the Academy Award and Szabó won Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Director. In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion without giving in to their growing feelings for each other?
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English
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In the British East Africa country of Kenya, former childhood playmates Peter McKenzie and Kimani have maintained their deep friendship, even though they have a difference in race, class and tradition. Then the bloody Mau Mau spread violence and terror in an effort to sweep the British from the land, the uprising destroys their magnificent homeland. The men discover that even the strongest bond may be stronger than the beat of the drums or the crack...
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English
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Jersey, 1942. The British Channel Islands fall to the Germans who put prisoners of war to work in slave labor camps. When a Russian soldier escapes the labor camps, seeking shelter, a Jersey resident, Lou, realizes she can't simply hand him back. Lou decides to harbor the fugitive, striking up a bond with the young, intelligent man whom she soon treats as her son.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1215
Language
Hungarian
Description
The mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. In an unknown time in an unnamed village, one day, a mysterious circus complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence.
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English
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In the follow-up to the blockbuster action-adventure xXx, NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson), fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent Darius Stone (Ice Cube), also code-named "XXX," must track a dangerous military splinter group that is conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government in the nation's capital.
9) Ruby Ridge
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English
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Ruby Ridge is a riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
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English
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Behind the mask is Lelouch Lamperouge, once a prince of the Britannian Empire who is hell-bent on revenge for his mother's death and protecting his younger sister, Nunnally. He is given a gift, a power known as Geass that allows him to control the mind of anyone he looks at. It is with his Geass that his plan to bring a world worthy of his sister is close to fruition; until he faces off with knight of Britannia and his former best friend, Suzaku Kururugi....
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Portuguese
Description
Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro's fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara's women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of...
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日本語
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In 2010, the Holy Empire of Britannia began a campaign of conquest, its sights set on Japan. Operations were completed in one month due to Britannia's deployment of new mobile humanoid armor vehicles. The once proud nation of Japan was now referred to as Area 11. Pockets of resistance appear throughtout Area 11. Posing as a student, exiled Imperial Prince Lelouch, finds himself in the heart of an ongoing conflict for the island nation. Lelouch gains...
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Multiple
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"Since 2008, Ernest Larson and Sherry Millner have ben researching, curating, and teaching aesthettically and politically radical nonfiction media. A follow up to Disruptive Film Vol. 1, their new collection presents under-explored or forgotten approaches to political and experimental filmmaking. The overall aim of the Disruptive Film project is to help construct an alternative history of experimental, political nonfiction media, specifically from...
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Multiple
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With this collection, curators Ernest Larson and Sherry Millner have successfully established a new history of film as political resistance. Vol. 1 is made up of four distinct programs with 26 short-form experimental non-fiction films. These radical global narratives span from 1914 up to the early 21st century and truly represent the diversity in approaches to documentary filmmaking. The collection has been put together for both political and educational...
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Español
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It is the year 2033 in Mexico City, now called Villaparaiso. After a bloody revolution, the military regime restored civil order, all religion and protests are now banned, and corporations control society to ensure their own prosperity. Pablo is a young member of the elite class being groomed into military power. He plays life on the edge, believes the state propaganda, and lives for the decadence of it all until he meets Miguel, an underground priest...
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English
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A series of informal interviews with Daniel and Philip Berrigan, John Hogan, Tom Lewis, and Marjorie and Tom Melville-- all members of the Catonsville Nine, a disparate band of resisters who broke the law on May 17, 1968 when they walked into Catonsville draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. Includes archival footage.
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Portuguese
Description
"Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro's fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara's women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of...
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