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2) Mother India
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Hindi
Description
Depicts, through one woman's life from marriage to old age, the joys and tragedies of village life in rural India.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the 1300s, the series chronicles the lives of ordinary citizens as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years' War with France, all while Europe is bracing for the Black Death. Caris, a visionary woman, and her lover Merthin build a community that stands up to the Crown and the church.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny₂s relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There isn't any telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their...
Publisher
Film Ideas, Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A film documentary about the lives of inner city youths. It is s story of an inner city baseball team with a dedicated coach, and players who use their talents and drive to survive a neighborhood formerly known as the "crack capital" of the world.
10) Trading places
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c1983
Edition
Looking good, feeling good ed.
Language
English
Description
Two old business partners bet that they can turn a street hustler into a successful businessman.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pestilence the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. A sweeping epic that focuses on the primordial conflict of good vs. evil, as played out against a pair of vivid and unusual backdrops: a traveling carnival working the American Dustbowl circuit, and an evangelical ministry in California.
12) Dickensian
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A bold reinvention of Charles Dickens' timeless novels, it takes familiar characters on new journeys as their stories intersect in the same world. Discover the events that lead up to Miss Havisham's wedding day, the true sacrifices made by a young Lady Dedlock, what happens to ruthless moneylender Jacob Marley and more. One doesn't need to know Dickens' novels to fall in love with these stories--packed with romance, scandal and intrigue, they deliver...
13) Pretty in pink
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
She's a high school girl from the wrong side of town. He's the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Deluxe ed.
Language
Russian
Description
Que viva Mexico: A film document of the history of Mexico, presented in four novellas: Sandunga, an exposition of Tehuantepec jungles and the peaceful lifestyles of their inhabitants; Manguei, a love story about a poor peon and his bride; Fiesta, devoted to bullfighting and romantic love; and Soldadera, a portrayal of the 1910 revolution in Mexico as depicted in the frescoes of Siqueiros, Rivera, and Orosco.
Romance sentimentale: Eisenstein's first...
15) Mercy Street
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
Alexandria, Virginia, 1862. Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a native Confederate belle, collide at Mansion House, the Green family's luxury hotel that has been transformed into a Union Army hospital. Ruled under martial law, the border town in Alexandria is now...
16) Appaloosa
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Standard & Widescreen versions.
Language
English
Description
Two gunmen-for-hire arrive to defend the titular town from a ruthless rancher who killed the sheriff.
17) Little Dorrit
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
18) Ascension
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Nominated for Best Documentary by the Director's Guild, Producer's Guild, Independent Spirit Awards, and Gotham Awards, and winner of Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, this film explores the paradoxical pursuit of wealth and progress in China. Loosely structured around the distinct social and economic classes that divide the nation, this extraordinary documentary follows factory workers, middle class consumers and elites as they chase...
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