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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son and heir. The conspirator Brutus ponders how to curry...
223) A soldier's revenge
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Following the Civil War, Frank works as a bounty hunter but is still marred by the trauma of war. When two children show up on his doorstep in search of their captive mother, Frank must step up to take down the notorious Major Briggs who is behind it all. Under his protection, Frank and the children embark on the western frontier to settle the score.
224) Little women
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
225) The Civil War
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Commemorative edition 150th anniversary.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
Series
Arthouse films volume 007
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Collector's édition.
Language
Français
Description
A world-class photojournalist, Cartier-Bresson sometimes used the moving image, in order to better make a point about which he felt passionately, whether for artistic or political reasons (or both). This collection of his documentaries is complemented by a collection of films which show what drove the artist to create his films and photos.
227) Beasts of no nation
Series
Criterion collection volume 1091
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Language
English
Description
The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
The director's debut feature film deals with the issue of sociopolitical conflict in a remote mountain region of Colombia as seen through the eyes of a child.
230) Commissar
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Russian
Description
Set during Russian Civil War, a female-commissar of the Red Army learns she is pregnant and must stay with a Jewish family until she has given birth; after her son is born she must decide between motherhood and military duty.
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Young Manuel lives with his hard-working farmer parents in the remote, mountainous region of the Colombian countryside. While the adults in their lives try to avoid both the armed military and the guerrilla rebels fighting each other in the area, Manuel and his friend Julián are obsessed with playing soccer any chance they get. Shortly after his birthday, the new ball Manuel received as a gift gets kicked off to a minefield, and he and his friends...
233) The samurai trilogy
Series
Criterion collection volume 16
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Two-disc Blu-ray special edition.
Language
日本語
Description
A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.
236) The littlest Rebel
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 9
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full frame version.
Language
English
Description
Only a plea to President Lincoln can help when the father of a plantation girl is arrested and charged with espionage against the Yankees.
Series
Criterion collection volume 16
Pub. Date
[2012], ©1954-©1956.
Language
日本語
Description
A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.
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