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Fritz Lang, the silent filmsSummary: In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI COMSummary: A simple worker causes a strike on the Gdansk shipyard which leads to the creation of the first free unions and ultimately the downfall of the Soviet system.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STRHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007