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Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
A giant meteorite is due to collide with Earth in three days. Ale, a frustrated young man who lives with his mother and works at odd jobs, decides to spend his last days shut away, getting drunk and listening to his favorite music. But his plans change when he is forced to help his mother, Rosa, protect his brother Tomas' four children when Lucio, an ambiguous, disturbing stranger appears.
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 31
Language
English
Description
In just four years, the greatest empire the ancient world had ever seen fell - and all at the hands of Alexander the Great. How did this happen? Chart the collapse of the Persian Empire in this piercing examination of the Macedonian leader's military campaign to conquer the ancient world.
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 35
Language
English
Description
Even though he was a masterful leader, Hannibal's military strategies during the Second Punic War were not enough to stave off Carthage's eventual defeat by Roman forces. Explore the final two phases of the Punic Wars, which ended with the total destruction of Carthage and the triumph of the Rome.
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
Arabic
Description
"In his epic and engaging documentary of life in Baghdad before and after the 2003 US invasion, Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel acquaints us with a moving portrait of his own family and friends as they struggle in the advent and the uncertain aftermath of war. Displaying courage, grace and even humor after decades of deprivation through conflict, international sanctions, and totalitarian oppression, their optimism and determination is both inspiring...
10) Before sunrise
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p1999
Language
English
Description
A young American man meets a beautiful French student on a train bound for Paris, falls in love and asks her to share his last night in Vienna.
11) Before sunset
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Two stranges met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get the chance to fall in love all over again?
12) Sleeping beauty
Language
English
Formats
Description
A grand legend that transcends time as the evil and jealous fairy Maleficent casts a curse on the kingdom's beloved Princess Aurora. Hoping to save the princess, three Good Fairies, Merryweather, Flora and Fauna, spirit her off to the forest where they raise her as their own daughter. But it isn't enough, for, on her sixteenth birthday, Aurora pricks her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and falls into a deep, enchanted sleep just as Maleficent...
13) Fargo: Season 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The second chapter is set in 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Luverne, Minnesota, where young State Police Officer Lou Solverson, recently back from Vietnam, will tackle an all-new 'true crime' case.
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall, and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and ₁80s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world₂s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance, and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace...
15) Before I fall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A teenager is forced to relive her last day over and over.
16) Wings of Hope
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, who survived a fall from a plane to live another 12 days in the Amazon before being found. Juliane and Werner recreate her journey out of the jungle.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
18) Aulcie
Publisher
Candlelight Media Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Aulcie Perry, once a young man from the violent streets of Newark NJ, finds his glory in leading Israel’s basketball team to European championship, dating a supermodel, converting to Judaism, and becoming one of Israel’s hottest celebrities…only to fall to drugs and jail time before his redemption and search for his biological daughter.
19) Love actually
Language
English
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.