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1) Human flow
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Examines the current refugee crisis around the world.
2) Exodus
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The first-person stories of refugees and migrants fleeing war and persecution for Europe. Told through camera-phone footage filmed by the families themselves as they leave their homes on dangerous journeys seeking safety and refuge.
3) All saints
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A salesman-turned-pastor is sent to a town in Tennessee to oversee the winding down and sale of a struggling church.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The village of Three Pines, a refuge from the modern world in the beautiful Eastern Townships, basks in the tranquil glory of its autumn colours. But the blazing woods conceal the body of a much-loved teacher - shot through the heart with an arrow. A tragic hunting accident or murder? Charismatic Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of officers probe to discover deep layers of deceit, resentment, and murderous rage in the pretty village.
6) Boat people
Series
Criterion collection volume 1113
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
After the communist takeover of Vietnam, a Japanese journalist revisits Vietnam to report on the life of its people after the war.
7) Borderless
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Persian
Description
A young boy lives alone on an abandoned ship harbored along the stretch of an unnamed war-torn border. The boy's solitary existence is torn apart when a young refugee appears in search of shelter, carrying an infant.
8) Terraferma =
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of an uncontaminated Sicilian island inhabited by fisherman. Still barely touched by tourism, the islanders have begun to alter their mentality and behavior as they realize the economic potential of this new industry. At the same time, they deal with illegal aliens flooding the island and a new law requiring them to turn back undocumented peoples seeking aid.
9) Facing Sudan
Publisher
Bell, Book and Camera Productions
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"A custodian. A housewife. A pediatrician. A grandmother. Seemingly ordinary individuals. Yet these individuals have a story to tell. It is the story of suffering and death. It is the story of refugees. It is the story of terrified villagers running for cover. Yet, at the same time, it is a story of strength, courage and hope. It is the story of Sudan. Over the last 20 years, millions have died in Sudan. A civil war devastated the South and currently...
10) The tempest
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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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"--Container.
11) The good lie
Publisher
Alcon Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2014.
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.
12) Nanking
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners' letters and diaries.
Publisher
Vanguard International Cinema
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
This documentary traces intimate stories of courage in the harrowing years between the end of World War II and the formation of the state of Israel. Includes archival footage, original broadcasts and personal testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust.
14) Blood alley
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
An American merchant marine captain ferries a group of Chinese refugees down the Yangtze River to escape the Communists.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
The life-affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
Publisher
Twentieth 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.
17) Long is the road
Publisher
National Center for Jewish Film
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
Yiddish
Description
A forgotten classic and a film of passionate restraint, made by and about Jewish Displaced Persons. Produced in the American zone of occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II, this first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish point of view has the power of a collective self-portrait. The young hero is deported in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, jumps an Auschwitz-bound transport to take his chances in the countryside,...
18) Hearts and bones
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dan, a renowned war photographer with PTSD forms an unexpected bond with Sebastian, a Sudanese refugee, until one of his photographs unearths a dark secret from Sebastians past." --container
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Beautiful Austrian political refugee "Johnny" Jones is about to be deported, leaving the loving arms of a married Manhattan publisher for the waiting arms of the Nazis. The solution: instant citizenship via a marriage of convenience with flat-broke writer Bill Smith, in which the only thing they'll share is the same last name"--Container.
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