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Australia Drama DVDs Fathers and daughters Australia Drama Feature films Merchant mariners North Atlantic Ocean Drama Merchant ships North Atlantic Ocean Drama New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 19th century Drama Racism United States Drama United States Race relations Drama World War, 1939-1945 North Atlantic Ocean DramaSummary: In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish resistance and they must prevent it's being delivered to the Germans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOSummary: A reporter sent to Europe to cover a peace conference falls in love with a diplomat's daughter, but discovers that her father is the head of a Nazi spy ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Hill Productions 2004
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FORSummary: Seven elderly women and their bus driver band together to survive when their bus breaks down in the Quebec countryside. As they draw closer, the women begin to share stories from their pasts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 1990
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STRSummary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: (A great day in Harlem) A documentary about a photograph taken in 1958 by Art Kane of the jazz greats of the period. Includes home movie footage of that day of the musicians arriving and greeting each other the morning of the shoot. Also includes conversations with musicians and archival performance footage (62 min.)
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: John Cassavetes' first film tells a gripping story of racism set against a New York background in the 1950s. Lelia, a light-skinned black woman living in New York with her two brothers, has an affair with a white man. But when her lover meets one of Lelia's brothers and discovers she is black, a painful and emotional eruption occurs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer Artists 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ShaSummary: Landing a job on a ranch in Southern Australia, "Mac" Macauley falls hard for his boss's daughter, Lily. But a wealthy rival conspires to have him run out of town. Mac finds work as a carnival boxer and weds fellow worker Marge, more out of despair over his lost Lily than out of love. When their marriage eventually sours, Mac hits the road again, taking their reluctant daughter, Buster, along...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2008