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1) The good lie
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
They were known simply as The Lost Boys. Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, they were chosen to come to America, but find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.
4) Flee
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Danish
Description
On the verge of marriage to his longtime boyfriend, a successful academic in Denmark is confronted with a secret from his past.
5) Human flow
Series
Publisher
Amazon Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany...
6) La sirga
Series
Film Movement volume year 11, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Alicia is helpless. War memories invade her mind like threatening thunder. Uprooted by the armed conflict, she tries to reshape her life in La Sirga, a dilapidated hostel on the shores of a great lake in the highlands of the Andes. There, on a swampy and murky beach, she will try to settle down until her fears and the threat of war resurface again.
7) Nanking
Publisher
Think Film
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking through interviews and testimonies of Chinese survivors and Japanese soldiers, and staged readings of Westerners' letters and diaries.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world take refuge in an empty hospital with plans on rebuilding society. They rescue a young girl who is the victim of a brutal attack, but soon discover that they were followed by a savage band of cannibals known as Rovers. The Rovers begin to kill them one by one, and the trapped survivors must find a way to outwit their stalkers.
9) The tempest
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
10) Green dragon
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who speaks English becomes a translator for the Marine.
11) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, it is an unforgettable film of love, courage and sacrifice. During the final months of World War II in Hungary, a young man sets out to find his displaced family by using a stolen Nazi uniform to pose as an officer. On a journey filled with suspense and danger, he undertakes extraordinary measures to save his family and thousands of lives from the enemy.
Series
Battlestar Galactica volume V. 4
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The civil war amongst the Cylons escalates and Galactica's quest for Earth continues.
14) District 9
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
15) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009].
Language
English
Description
28 days later: An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. 28 weeks later: Almost seven months after the Rage virus has annihilated the inhabitants of the London and the British Isles, the U.S. Army declares that the war against infection...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
Ã2001
Edition
Digitally mastered anamorphic widescreen and full screen versions.
Language
English
Description
Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff suddenly defects from his touring troupe in that temple of "Western decadence"--Bloomingdale's. Fleeing the K.G.B., Vladimir wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of Black security guard Lionel Witherspoon. Though Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and even painful, he grows to love this strange and wondrous new land
19) All Saints
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia, who together risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.
20) War dance
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, their innocence lost, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. These children attend a school where they can momentarily forget the brutal realities of their lives, as they participate in music, song and dance. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival in their nation's capitol, their historic...