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1) Remittance
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at the lives of migrant domestic workers in Singapore and captures the hardships that confront them in their struggle to financially get ahead as well as the perseverance of their sacrifice to support their families. Not unlike other domestic workers, Marie leaves behind her children and unemployed husband for Singapore in hopes of earning sufficient savings to eventually open a business in the Philippines. Yet, one hurdle after another...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 82 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Award winner at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, In between days conveys an extraordinary sense of intimacy in depicting a young Korean immigrant's journey toward self-discovery.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lazhar tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher. Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, offers the school his services as a substitute teacher and is quickly hired. As he helps the children heal, he also learns to accept his own painful past. This moving film features exquisite performances by Fellag...
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (267 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ariel is a young man who lives in a Jewish working-class section of Buenos Aires. Since his father went missing in the war, his mother Sonia and brother Joseph work in the shopping and business district. With no interest in school or work, Ariel just ends up hangin out. He finally gets motivated by the idea of moving to Poland, so asks his grandmother, an ex-girlfriend, and Rabbi Benderson for help.
La historia de un reencuentro entre un padre y...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (267 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.
Publisher
Starz Originals
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter Blunt, a British import intent on conquering the world of American cable news. Through the platform of his nightly news show, Blunt is on a mission to impart his wisdom and guidance on how Americans should live. Besieged by network bosses, a dysfunctional news staff, numerous ex-wives, children of all ages, and his own well-intentioned, but sometimes misguided decisions, Blunt's only support is in the form of the heavy-drinking, devoted manservant...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?
10) The namesake
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The son of Indian immigrants born in America wants to fit in with fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways.
11) Frontera
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set along the tumultuous Arizona-Mexico border, follows Miguel, a hardworking father and devoted husband who crosses the border illegally and is wrongfully accused of murdering the wife of a former sheriff. Miguel's pregnant wife lands in the hands of corrupt Mexican "Coyote" smugglers as she tries to help her husband, while the ex-lawman investigates his wife's death and unearths evidence that could destroy one family's future.
12) John Henry
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-gang member John Henry is a quiet man with a violent history. John is forced to revisit his troubled past in order to save two immigrant kids on the run from his former gang leader. Set in the gritty streets of South Los Angeles, it is an action-packed crime drama about reconciliation, redemption and transformation.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with them. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement...
14) Far and away
Publisher
Universal Home Video, Inc
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen ; Blu-ray ed.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (circa 2 hr. 20 min.): sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Joseph Donnelly finds himself accompanying his landlord's daughter, Shannon, to America in a quest for land. After working in Boston as a bare-fisted boxer and later on the railroad, Donnelly runs into Shannon, who is unhappily reunited with her former fiance. In the excitement of the Oklahoma land rush, they realize their dreams of land and life together
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