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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political prisoner, sentenced without trial to work grueling hours at a 'reeducation' camp--manufacturing the products sold in our own big-box stores"--
Publisher
Independent Cinema Restoration Archive
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a prison cell somewhere in Latin America, Molina and Valentin have only one thing in common--they are both victims of society. This is the complex story of the relationship that develops between two men with radically different perspectives on life.
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 12
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
335 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Abyssinian War of 1868 in the long-awaited twelfth installment of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers. Many have marvelled at General Napier's daring 1868 expedition through the treacherous peaks and bottomless chasms of Abyssinia to rescue a small group of British citizens held captive by the mad tyrant Emperor Theodore. But the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 760
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Français
Description
U.S. official Philip Santore is abducted in Uruguay by a guerrilla group who use him to negotiate the release of political prisoners.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
479 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A political freedom fighter who paid the ultimate price for his convictions recounts his political career, the many attempts on his life and the lives of the people closest to him and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxi, 454 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. A singular international publishing event, Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela’s personal archive of never-before-seen materials...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny--lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader. THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a...
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 759
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Français
Description
Set in the 1950s, tells the story of a Czechoslovak Communist Party official who is imprisoned and interrogated over a long period with no indication of his captors motives.
10) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north...
12) Rosewater
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (1 hr., 44 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist who was detained and brutally interrogated by the Iranian government following the controversial 2009 Iran presidential election.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the introduction of torture as an interrogation technique in U.S. facilities, and the role played by key figures of the Bush Administration in the process. Takes an in-depth look at the case of Afghan taxi driver Dilawar, who was suddenly detained by the U.S. military one afternoon and died in his Bagram prison cell five days later.
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