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CAMPUS contains over 3000 National Film Board (NFB) films, features and resources in both English and French.
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Criterion collection volume 422
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Epic portrayal of the life and times of China's last emperor, Pu Yi-- crowned at age 3, and destined to live as a prisoner in his own country in one way or another for his entire life.
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In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
5) Feng Shui
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In Joseon, geomancers help people find lucky sites for houses, stores, and even graves. Park, a royal geomancer, loses his family because he exposed the powerful Kim’s conspiracy. Park plans revenge and learns that Kim is looking for the grave site that would make his son the King. Heung-seon, a faithful friend of the King, joins Park to prevent Kim from usurping the throne by finding it first.
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Romance, surgery and history combine in this vivid, atmospheric drama based on the lives and case notes of doctors, nurses and patients at the Royal London Hospital a century ago. Set in the heart of the East End amid horrific danger and poverty, when illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, measles, syphilis, diphtheria are rife, Whitechapel life tumbles through the emergency room doors daily in victims of violence, suicide, drink and drugs. Themes...
8) Bardejov
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In the small Slovakian town of BARDEJOV, Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy realized his town's population was at risk of being sent off to Auschwitz. He fashioned a plan to quarantine the town so that no one could be transported out of it, and ultimately saved them. Based on a true story.
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Criterion collection volume 320
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Fonda stars as the young backwoods lawyer who put his integrity and humor to work for his fellow man.
11) Capote
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Novelist Truman Capote must confront the moral implications of his book about a multiple murder in a small Kansas town, which he wrote to prove that a true story can be molded into a tale as compelling as fiction.
13) Cleopatra
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In an effort to preserve her monarchy, Cleopatra first seduces Julius Caesar and then Marcus Anthony.
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Criterion collection volume 7
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An authentic depiction of the tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic, in which 1500 people died.
17) Aftermath
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"A Polish man who returns home after the death of his father unearths a secret about the now-deceased Jewish residents of his village"--www.imdb.com.
18) Secrets of war
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Tuur and Lambert are best friends in a Nazi-occupied Dutch village who pass their days playing soldiers and exploring local caves, mimicking a war that seems far removed from their everyday life. When Maartje joins their class, the young girl immediately stands out as different from her classmates. Yet the boys embrace their new friend, forming a unique bond based on shared adventures, secrets and mischief. Ultimately, the realities of war find even...
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