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1) Gandhi
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen 25th anniversary ; [Collector's ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (191 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
3) Galapagos
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin as she explores 3,000 feet beneath the ocean, near the Galapagos islands, to collect rare and unusual species for study.
4) A prophet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Malik el Djebena, who is condemned to six years in prison, cannot read or write, but soon figures out the politics of the prison. Though Malik is only 19-years-old, the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison corners him and gives him certain 'missions' to carry out. He quickly gains the confidence of the gang leader, as these assignments begin to toughen him up. But Malik soon develops some plans of his own.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (41 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Standing almost alone in the great Southern Ocean, South Georgia Island plays host to some of the largest concentrations of animals anywhere on Earth during the spring and summer months.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
It is the 80's, and fourteen year-old Filipa is spending her vacation at Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, with her father, Mathias, her alcoholic mother, Clarice, and her two younger siblings in their beach house. When Filipa feels that the relationship of her parents is deteriorating, she snoops in her father's office. There she finds pictures of Mathias with his American lover Ângela hidden in a drawer of his desk. When Mathias and Clarice announce to...
8) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants...
9) Casa de lava
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A nurse, Mariana, accompanies Leao to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, it foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary, ravishing work in its own right.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016].
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day Sao Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the woman's family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes.
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Only when I dance: Two teenagers from Rio de Janeiro pursue the dream of becoming professional ballet dancers.
Lil' A: 12-year-old Lil' A found dance to be the perfect antidote for the severe tics he suffered because of a nervous disorder. Now the tics have subsided and he has decided to become the best dancer and choreographer in the whole world.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Political terrorists, in a desperate bid to focus the world's attention on their fight for freedom, kidnap an American ambassador. Now the diplomat's life hangs in the balance-- helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate-- and his fear of the captors themselves!
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
In 1810 Lisbon quakes before the impending invasion of Napoleonic forces led by Marshal Massena. Portuguese and English troops, led by the Duke of Wellington, rebuff the French, but at a terrible cost endured by peasants and aristocrats alike.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (313 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
In 1936 Portugal, the opulent Vidago Palace hotel is a haven for Europe's elite from the Spanish Civil War erupting across the border. Beautiful young aristocrat Carlota arrives at the resort to plan her wedding to the wealthy Cesar, which will save her family from bankruptcy. But her heart is preoccupied with thoughts of Pedro, the handsome son of the hotel's concierge.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (586 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When ordinary teenager Jim Lake Jr. stumbles upon a mystical amulet on his way to school one morning, he inadvertently discovers an extraordinary secret civilization of mighty trolls beneath his small town of Arcadia. Suddenly destined to play a crucial role in an ancient battle of good and evil, Jim is determined to save the world, right after gym class. A must-see original series for the entire family.
20) Boy & the world
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Cuca's cozy rural life in Brazil is shattered when his father leaves for the city. Determined to reunite his family, he embarks on a journey into civilization, where despite the harsh life and industrialized landscape, he finds that peoples' hearts continue to beat together in song.
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