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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg team up to become underground watchdogs of the very powerful. They create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society, and...
4) Attila
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
While the Huns are content to plunder and extort the surrounding nations, Attila looks beyond to the possibility of an empire and new world order. Roman General Flavius Aetius embodies the best and worst of Rome in the final years of her existance. He is motivated by one overriding goal: Rome must continue to rule the world.
5) Misbehaviour
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sensational true story of the Women's Liberation Movement's disruption of the 1970 Miss World pageant, an event watched by more than 100 million viewers, and which made headlines around the world. Not only that, when order was restored, the first woman of color was crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
6) Oppenheimer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
8) Suffragette
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Did a number of explorers discover the New World long before Christopher Columbus staked his claim in 1492? Explore the possibility that the Chinese, Japanese, Polynesians, Norse, Welsh, Irish, Ancient Hebrews, and the Solutreans all made it to the Americas earlier than Columbus. Rebuild the ships, trace the routes, test the artifacts, and analyze blood evidence to finally learn the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of all time: who really discovered...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Witness some of the world's most significant events through the eyes of someone who was there, in person, and lived to tell the story. Get a ringside seat to the great triumphs and tragedies of the past seventy years! Feel the past's beating pulse and keep in step with the march of history, from the bombing of Hiroshima to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Find out what it was like to be at Ground Zero on that terrible day in September 2001.
11) Amazing grace
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of William Wilberforce and his attempts to pass a law against the slave trade in the late 18th century.
12) Numbered
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Auschwitz prisoners were tattooed with serial numbers, on their chests and then their left arms. An estimated 400,000 were tattooed in Auschwitz and its sub-camps; only some several thousand survivors are still alive today.
15) Pearl Harbor
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins...
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An authentic depiction of the tragedy of the sinking of the cruise ship Titanic, in which 1500 people died.
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