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Roach, Jay, film director. McNamara, John, 1962- screenwriter. Cranston, Bryan, 1956- actor. Lane, Diane, actor. Fanning, Elle, 1998- actor.
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Video disc
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The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. It tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
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Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976, screenwrtiter. Preminger, Otto, presenter, film director, film producer. Newman, Paul, 1925-2008, actor. Saint, Eva Marie, 1924- actor. Richardson, Ralph, Sir, 1902-1983, actor.
Format
Video disc
Summary
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film also depicts the struggle of the Jews in Palestine to gain partition, then profiles the main characters after the partition, fighting to continue as the nation of Israel.
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Camargo, Christian Hernandez, Montse Haynes, Cheyenne Keyvan, Anthony Smith, Harley Quinn
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Video disc
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A distressing incident compels childhood best friends Jane and Merritt to take action against their high school math teacher, driving their splintered relationship into further turmoil and provoking deadly consequences.
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Lawson, John Howard, 1894-1977. Bessie, Dan. Horowitz, Gary. Miller, David, 1909-1992. Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976.
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Visual Materials
Summary
Who killed President Kennedy? Mixing narrative sements with newsreel footage, the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald.
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