Ashes and Diamonds

Popiół i diament

Popiół i diament [videorecording] = Ashes and diamonds / Janus Films; zespót autorów filmowych KADR przedstawia; scenariusz na motywach powieści, Jerzego Andrzejewskiego; [screenplay by] Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda; kierownictwo produkcji [produced by], Stanisław Adler; reżyseria [directed by], Andrzej Wajda.

On the last day of World War II, Maciek, a young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader. The Soviet leader has arrived in town to establish a new government. A mistake leads Maciek to a beautiful barmaid who shows him what his life could be like. Although killing has been easy for Maciek in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier, and Maciek must decide whether to follow the orders to kill him.

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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln [videorecording] / written, produced and directed by Barak Goodman; an Ark Media Production for the American experience; WGBH Boston.

"On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded the first eight cars. In the ninth rode the body of Abraham Lincoln. As the funeral train made its way across nine states and through hundreds of cities and towns, the largest manhunt in history was closing in on Lincoln's assassin, the famous actor John Wilkes Booth. This American experience film recounts a great American drama: two tumultuous months when the joy of peace was shattered by the heartache of Lincoln's death. At the heart of the story are two figures who define the extremes of character: Lincoln, who had the strength to transform suffering into infinite compassion, and Booth, who allowed hatred to curdle into distruction"--Container.

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At war with the army

At war with the army [videorecording]; Road to Hollywood.

Jerry Lewis stars as a bumbling private and Dean Martin is his smooth buddy who tries to straighten him out (1st work). Fictional biography about Bing Crosby's rise to fame and celebrity with famous clips of Crosby's musical comedies from his early days in Hollywood (2nd work).

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Atonement

Atonement [videorecording] / Focus Features presents; in association with Studiocanal and Relativity Media a Working Title production; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster; screenplay by Christopher Hampton; directed by Joe Wright.

In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony - who has a crush on Robbie, is compelled to interfere. She goes so far as to accuse Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but, ultimately, he is arrested. Briony bears false witness and the course of three lives is changed forever. As Briony grow older, she continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.

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Australia

Australia [videorecording] / 20th Century Fox presents a Bazmark production; directed by Baz Luhrmann.

On the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat travels to this faraway continent and meets a rough-hewn cattle driver and an enchanting Aboriginal child. This unlikely trio joins forces and embarks on a journey driving a herd of cattle across hundreds of miles. When their world is torn apart by powerful enemies they must try to find each other amidst the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese.

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Ballad of a soldier

Ballada o soldate

Ballada o soldate [videorecording] = Ballad of a soldier / directed by Grigori Chukhrai; a Mosfilm Studio Production; scenario, Valentin Yoshov and Grigori Chukhrai.

A soldier-boy earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desparate act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small adventures.

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Band of brothers

Band of brothers (Television program: 2001)

Tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, an elite rifle company that parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, and suffered heavy casualties. Also includes a documentary about the soldiers in Easy Company.

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Baraka

Baraka [videorecording] / a Mark Magidson Production; a Ron Fricke film; produced by Mark Magidson; original treatment written by Genevieve Nicholas, Constantine Nicholas, Ron Fricke; concept and scenario by Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson, Bob Green; restoration producer, Christopher M. Reyna; directed & photographed by Ron Fricke.

"[A] transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you've ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a world without words, viewed through man and nature's own prisms of symmetry, savagery, chaos and harmony." - Container.

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Bashing

Bashing [videorecording] / Monkey Town Productions; produced by Masahiro Kobayashi and Naoko Okamura; written and directed by Masahiro Kobayashi.

A young woman from Japan working as a volunteer in Iraq is kidnapped. When she returns home, she and her family become the targets of ridicule and humiliation by everyone she meets, until the only place she wants to be is where she once was.

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The battle of Algiers

La bataille d'Alger

La bataille d'Alger [videorecording] = The battle of Algiers / un film de Gillo Pontecorvo; sc*nario de Franco Solinas; production Casbah Films, Igor Film; produit par Yacef Saadi.

Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in caf

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