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1) Codebreaker
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The remarkable and tragic story of one of the 20th century's most important people. Alan Turing set in motion the computer age and his World War II codebreaking helped turn the tide of the Second World War. Instead of receiving accolades, he faced terrible persecution. In 1952, the British Government forced him to undergo chemical castration as punishment for his homosexuality. In despair, Turing committed suicide. He was only 41 years old.
2) Chavela
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The captivating look at the unconventional life of beloved performer Chavela Vargas, whose passionate renditions of Mexican popular music and triumphant return to the stage late in life brought her international fame.
3) Oscar Wilde
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
From his days at Oxford to the revelation and trial that led to his incarceration in the Reading Jail, Biography traces the life of the legendary writer and wit, Oscar Wilde.
4) Flee
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Language
Danish
Description
On the verge of marriage to his longtime boyfriend, a successful academic in Denmark decides to reveal a secret from his past and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.
5) Mark Twain
Series
Language
English
Description
Samuel Clemens rose from a hardscrabble boyhood in the backwoods of Missouri to become, as Mark Twain, America's best-known and best-loved author. Considered in his time as the funniest man on earth, Twain was also an unflinching critic of human nature who used his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed and racism. He created some of the world's most memorable characters as well as its most quoted sayings. And, in his often-misunderstood novel "Huckleberry...
7) Belushi
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Director R.J. Cutler takes a revealing look at the brilliant life of comedic legend John Belushi. Known for his iconic characters and sketches on both stage and screen, few people knew his personal side, until now. Never-before-seen photos, letters and home-movies from the Belushi family archive give intimate access to the world-famous superstar. Family and friends who knew him best share intimate memories, including Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Chevy...
Language
English
Description
The author of such innovative works as "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night", Eugene O'Neill wrote twenty plays in fewer than 25 years. This production, by award-winning director Ric Burns, tells O'Neill's turbulent story from his childhood to his painful death at the age of 65.
11) Emperors of Rome
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
This course is a series of biographic portraits from Augustus, Julius Caesar's grandnephew, to Constantine.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"'Emperors, Kings and Pharaohs' explores whether ancient leaders, usually attributed with divine powers, were actually connected to extraterrestrial forces. 'Alien Operations' examines advanced medical procedures practiced in the ancient world, as evidenced by wall carvings and skeletal remains. Did these skills come from an otherworldly source? Archaelogists ponder the healing power of ancient objects like sacred bones in 'Mysterious Relics' and...
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Flannery O'Connor's distinctive Southern Gothic style influenced a generation of artists and activists. Winner of the first-ever Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, O'Connor includes conversations with Mary Karr, Hilton Als and others. Through never-before-seen archival footage, examine the life and legacy of an American literary icon.
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"The most powerful, loved, and hated film critic of her time." - Roger Ebert on Pauline Kael (1919-2001). In a field that has historically embraced few women film critics, Kael was charismatic, controversial, witty, and discerning. Her decades-long berth at The New Yorker energized her fans ("Paulettes") and infuriated her detractors on a weekly basis. Her turbo-charged prose famously championed the New Hollywood Cinema of the late 1960s and '70s...
17) Reagan
Series
Language
English
Description
One of the most popular presidents ever, Ronald Wilson Reagan served two terms in office and left with his reputation intact as a charismatic, charming leader who managed to avoid many of the major pitfalls of the leaders before him. A one-time actor, he became an ideologue who preached a simple gospel of optimism, lower taxes, less government and anti-communism. Often underestimated, his successes surprised many of his greatest detractors.
18) Once brothers
Series
30 for 30 volume no. 25
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Dražen Petrović and Vlade Divac grew up sharing the common bond of basketball. Close friends as well as teammates, they lifted the Yugoslavian National team to unimaginable heights and both eventually fulfilled their dreams of NBA stardom. But when war broke out between Petrović's Croatia and Divac's Serbia, long buried ethnic tensions surfaced. And these two men, once brothers, were now on opposite sides of a deadly civil war"--Container.
Series
30 for 30 volume no. 19
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Before Lance Armstrong, there was Greg LeMond, who is now the first and only American to win the Tour de France. LeMond looks back at the pivotal 1986 Tour and his increasingly vicious rivalry with friend, teammate and mentor Bernard Hinault. The reigning Tour champion and brutal competitor known as The Badger, Hinault "promised" to help LeMond, in return for LeMond supporting him in the previous year. But in a sport that purports to reward teamwork,...
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