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1) Tongpan
Pub. Date
[2014], c1994
Language
English
Description
The British Film Institute calls Tongpan "One of the most important "third world" films of the decade. It is based on the real life experience of a farmer from the poverty-stricken Northeast region of Thailand. Tongpan and his family are forced off their land when a dam built nearby caused their farm to be flooded and left it parched in the dry.
Pub. Date
[2014], c1933
Language
English
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Description
This early Sherlock Holmes film bears only a loose relationship to Arthur Conan Doyle's novel A Study in Scarlet, which first introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world. The film stars Reginald Owen as Holmes and Warburton Gamble as Watson. Also starring Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star.
3) The Universe
Series
Language
English
Description
In this program, scientists, astrobiologists, and astronomers combine scientific fact and a little imagination to create five lines of extraterrestrial evolution and explain how creatures on the surface of Earth can offer a helping hand to understanding life on other planets.
Pub. Date
[2015], c2014
Language
English
Description
What if we could travel not just through space, but through time itself? If you could travel through time, would you change the past or the future? What if you found it couldn't be changed? What price does the time traveler - and the people they are closest to - pay? This is a journey from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine through ideas like The Grandfather Paradox and The Butterfly Effect to the professional time traveler that is the ever popular Doctor...
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
Français
Description
This story of greed and family discord is set, like so much of Mauriac's fiction, in his native Bordeaux: Louis, in the twilight of his life, writes a long letter to his wife and, in the process, the milestones of his life burst to the forefront of his memory-all the irritations, anger, and shame. And to what end? He contemplates disinheriting his children, who are only waiting for him to die so they can get ahold of his money.
Pub. Date
[2014], c1933
Language
English
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This 1933 adaptation of the greatest of all Spanish novels stars the legendary Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin as the would-be knight Don Quixote. The plot is severely condensed from the original, but several of the most famous scenes are included. Chaliapin sings three sings in the film. Also starring George Robey and Renee Valliers.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life (1804-1864) and selected works published in nineteenth century American literature. Amongst his many novels, The Scarlet Letter which still reflects the moral and ethical dilemmas men and women face today, is explored in depth. The Hawthorne Legacy offers students and teachers an overview into the life and writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Divided into five chapters each program is intended for class discussion...
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Description
Camera Three presents two dramatizations of literature at the expense of scientific thought. The first scene combines excerpts from the novellas Nightmare Abbey, Gryll Grange, Melincourt, and Crochet Castle. In Inflexible Logic, six apes are encouraged to write all the books in the British Museum to test the law of probability.
Pub. Date
[2011], c1999
Language
English
Description
From cartoons to country music, "feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys" is synonymous with senseless fighting, barbaric behavior and endless grudges. Behind the hillbilly stereotype is an untold story of romance, greed and exploitation. Here is the story of two famous families and their infamous legacy.
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
Français
Description
Maupassant's story is of a young servant girl seduced, made pregnant, and abandoned by her master, who dies because she cannot live without him. This dramatized version focuses on the relationships between people and the landscapes amid which they live, a story reflective both of Maupassant's view of life and of the style in which he described it.
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
Español
Description
In this 1981 interview for Spanish television, writer Carmen Martin Gaite tells about her New York experiences while teaching at Barnard College; discusses her childhood in Salamanca and Ourense Province during the Spanish Civil War; recalls her academic life influenced by notables such as Unamuno, and her bohemian circle of literary friends in Madrid that came to represent the Social Realists of the post war generation. Her experiences are reflected...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
Metamorphosis seems like the ultimate evolutionary magic trick. From Ovid to Kafka to X-Men, tales of metamorphosis richly permeate human culture. The myth of transformation is so common that it seems almost pre-programmed into our imagination. But is the scientific fact of metamorphosis just as strange as fiction or...even stranger? Filmmaker David Malone explores the science behind metamorphosis.
Series
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Though Dracula is still the most pervasive Gothic character and image, in the early 20th Century fantasy horror would be outstripped by real horror as the truth of mechanised warfare dawned on an innocent world. This program follows how the language of Gothic would increasingly come to encapsulate the horrors of the 20th century-from Marx's analysis of 'vampiric' capitalism to T. S. Eliot's image of The Wasteland, a Gothic narrative seemed to make...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Journalist and novelist Bidisha was fascinated by Bronte's Jane Eyre as a teenager, but re-reading the story as an adult left her feeling uncomfortable. What Bronte had to say about sex and race was darker and more disturbing than she remembered. Revisiting this classic Victorian novel, Bidisha sees her role model, and the society which spawned her, through very different eyes. Is Jane Eyre really the spirited, independent woman Bidisha admired as...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1938
Language
English
Description
This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, New York, N.Y.: Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller, The War of the Worlds, as staged by Orson Welles. Reel 2, London, England: Patients at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street get a great thrill when King George and Queen Elizabeth visit the institution's new buildings and...
Pub. Date
[2014], c1932
Language
English
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Description
This 1932 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's classic war novel emphasizes the romance between Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. Many critics consider it to be the best film version of any of Hemingway's works Starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.
20) Frankenstein
Pub. Date
[2011], c1997
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein: the doctor who created life! Was the famed character invented in the mind of novelist Mary Shelley, or was Dr. Frankenstein based in reality, as some argue? This episode of Ancient Mysteries explores Shelley's possible influences. Had she learned of the 18th century German doctor who experimented on dead as well as live bodies; or was her inspiration the Britisher Andrew Crosse, who claimed to use electricity to create life?
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