Summary: The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England and a gathering space for a community that has fallen through hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OLD
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care system.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF I

Summary: Ricky and his wife Abby, who lost their home in the 2008 financial crash, are desperate to get out of their economic distress. When Ricky gets the opportunity to be his own boss as a delivery driver, they trade in their only asset, Abby's car, for a new white van and the dream that Ricky can work his way up to owning his own franchise. But the couple find their lives are quickly pushed further...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOR

Summary: From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOR

Summary: A teenage boy and his cousin decide to leave Senegal for the promise of Europe despite facing the harsh realities of the desert to the harrowing experiences in Libyan detention centers and the risks of the open sea.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IO

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD IO