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65) Born in flames
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2006], 1983.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A futuristic fable of feminist turmoil still brewing ten years after the Second American Revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman's Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference - emerges to blow the System apart. With their fury growing and all peaceful options exhausted, women overcome divisions of race, class, and sexual orientation to form a guerilla...
Author
Language
English
Description
London, 1856. It is a time of progress, with the Empire's interests expanding and the Suez Canal nearing completion. Many people stand to gain - and to lose - as the world rapidly changes. When a Thames pleasure boat is blown up with the loss of many lives, an Egyptian man is quickly sentenced to hang for the crime. But William Monk, head of the River Police, discovers the evidence was flawed. As he and his wife Hester investigate further, Monk begins...
Publisher
Word Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This ... documentary film tells the untold story of millions of women in India who are culturally persecuted for no other reason than the fact they are women. However, despite the centuries of oppression, there are those who are reaching out and trying to change the culture towards women, from the inside out"--Container.
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
between 1980 and 1989?]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Language
Español
Description
A study of Cuban society before and after the revolution as seen through the eyes of a man who is a landlord and self-styled writer.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (16 pages : illustrations, color ; 19 cm)
Language
Persian
Description
Three portraits of women at three stages of life in Iran: a nine-year-old girl is told she can no longer play with boys because she is now a "woman", a young wife who enters a bicycle race against her husband's wishes, and an elderly woman who gains money and the freedom to do what she wishes with it.
73) The idiot
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of St. Petersburgh for his idiocy, generosity and innocence, he finds himself at the centre of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a gorgeous, virtuous girl, both of whom win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin's very goodness seems to precipitate disaster, leaving the impression that, in a world...
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Language
English
Formats
Description
A six-volume survey of modern Asia, defined as extending from Japan in the east to Turkey in the west, and from Kazakhstan in the north to Indonesia in the south. Presents entries covering such subjects as countries, cities, regions, natural features, religions, social issues, languages, people, events, customs, politics, and economics.
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