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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Five Blu-ray Special Edition.
Physical Desc
5 Blu-rays (680 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (52 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Watermelon man: A loud-mouthed, bigoted white man's suburban existence is jarringly upended when he wakes to discover that he has become a black man.
Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song:...
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the Chinese Civil War, American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry another missionary, Robert Strike. As soon as she arrives, however, the couple must save a group of orphans from a fire. Injured and separated from her fiancé, Megan is rescued and taken to the home of General Yen. While Megan and the general grow closer, one of the general's concubines seems to be secretly working for Yen's enemies.
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a willowy fishing village in South Carolina, the film tells the compelling story of two interracial lovers, Sophie, an artist who also fishes and sells crabs to the townfolk, the other an Asian gentleman, swept up in the tides of history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised, where simplicity and restraint are valued above all, and a woman's path is expected to lead to marriage and motherhood. But up on the rooftop each night, Hannah pursues a very different -- and elusive -- goal: discovering a comet and thereby winning a gold medal awarded by the King...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable novel from an award-winning author about an ambitious young agent's daring fight to protect blacklisted writers in McCarthy-era Hollywood and her passionate relationship with an African American journalist. Outraged by her grandfather's illicit affair with Empire Pictures' latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own. Backed...
68) Paris noire
Author
Publisher
AmazonEncore
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
vi, 363 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set against the turbulent backdrop of wartime France, Paris Noire is a dramatic and engrossing novel that brings to vivid life the remarkable people once relegated to the fringes of history.
69) Sidney Poitier
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (404 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
70) I'm your girl
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Powerhouse Films Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (532 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + + 4 booklets.
Language
English
Description
It happened in Hollywood: While hospitalized, young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart's career. Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star.
Adventure in Sahara: The cruel commander of a French Foreign Legion outpost drives his men to mutiny.
Power of the press: During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (approximately 12 hr., 45 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The shadow on the window: Three young thugs rob a farmhouse, kill the owner and take his stenographer hostage but the woman's estranged husband, a police detective, starts investigating her disappearance.
The long haul: After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.
Pickup alley: U.S. narcotics agent Charles Sturgis...
Author
Series
Montana cowboys volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Susanne Collins has her hands full raising her four orphaned nieces and nephews and managing the family farm. So when her cowboy neighbor proposes he plant her crops in exchange for keeping his wild horses in her corrals, Susanne hesitantly takes the deal. Soon her reluctance to accept help ebbs, and she wonders if Tanner Harding will he prove to be the strong, solid man she's been hoping for... Half-Native American Tanner has always been adrift in...
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