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4) The Paradise
Language
English
Description
Denise Lovett, a young and ambitious country girl with only her wits to live on, arrives in a booming Northern city to take up a long-held promise of work in her uncle's drapery shop. But she soon discovers that her uncle cannot afford to employ her as most of his customers have been seduced away by The Paradise, England's first department store, right across the street.
5) Up the Women
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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...
7) Apocalypto
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Mayan
Description
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate. He is taken on a perilous journey to a world that is ruled by fear and oppression, where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate...
8) The Alamo
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the historic battle by 185 men against a 7,00-man Mexican army--a battle that ended in the smaller forces' defeat, but lasted long enough to insure the eventual independence of Texas.
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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...
11) Gallipoli
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Two young men (Mel Gibson and Mark Lee) are brought together in the Australian army in 1915. They cross continents and great oceans, climb pyramids and walk through the ancient sands of Egypt to join their regiment at the fateful battle of GALLIPOLI. Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes**. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**. "*Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to...
12) Klimt
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Mercy Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by real events, Mercy Street journeys beyond the battlefield and into the lives of a distinctive cast of characters -- doctors, nurses, contraband laborers and Southern loyalists -- realizing the chaotic world of Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia and the Mansion House Hospital in the early years of the Civil War.
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London. Nurse Trixie receives a proposal, and tempers fray when she gets carried away with wedding plans. Nurse Cynthia starts to think about becoming a nun, something that shocks both Trixie and Patsy. And an unexpected set of events sees Chummy take on the challenge of running a mother and baby home for unmarried girls. Elsewhere two new nurses join the...
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the witch hysteria of 1692. Three Sovereigns for Sarah offers an accurate portrayal of the Salem witch trials, with real characters and original transcripts woven into the dialogue. The film is a powerful, moving story about three loving sisters accused of witchcraft.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe star in this wry comedy drama about a young doctor's fledgling career as he begins his new life in a small, backwards Russian village. Based on the semi-autobiographical short stories by Bulgakov, set on the eve of the Russian Revolution, it tells the story of the young medical graduate's turbulent and brutal introduction to his practice, narrated by his older, more experienced self. A Young Doctor's Notebook is a fascinating,...
17) Freedom Road
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an former slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land where they were enslaved.
18) Copperhead
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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...
20) Black '47
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One soldier's ruthless pursuit of justice plays out against the darkest chapter of Irish history in this riveting revenge thriller. Starring Hugo Weaving and Jim Broadbent.
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