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1) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been, written in 1610—11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, it is an unforgettable film of love, courage and sacrifice. During the final months of World War II in Hungary, a young man sets out to find his displaced family by using a stolen Nazi uniform to pose as an officer. On a journey filled with suspense and danger, he undertakes extraordinary measures to save his family and thousands of lives from the enemy.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
After the second war against the Cylons, Commander Adama and President Roslin lead their group of refugees in search of Earth, the fabled thirteenth colony, while the Cylons continue to harrass the humans and internal political and personal conflict threatens to tear the fleet apart.
6) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
7) The tempest
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Follows the crew of Battlestar Pegasus, led by Admiral Cane, prior to their meeting with Galactica; Galactica's fleet struggles to regroup and resume the search for Earth after the Cylons attack New Caprica.
9) STYX
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering. Carrying...
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