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The Problem of the Hero. by Dozier, Shaun,film director.; zum Brunnen, David,actor.; Mardrice Henderson, J.,actor.; Buffalo 8 Productions (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
David zum Brunnen, J. Mardrice HendersonOriginally produced by Buffalo 8 Productions in 2023.In March of 1941 at the St. James Theatre in New York, two 20th century literary giants, ground-breaking author Richard Wright and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green, collaborate to adapt Wright’s best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway play. Days from opening night, they differ over a single page of the script. While the difference of opinion evolves into a spirited contention over issues of race, social justice, politics, and personal and creative agency, the argument also threatens to dissolve their friendship.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Playwriting.; Historical films.; Race relations.; Nineteen forties.;
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Sira / by Dueñas, María,1964-author.; Bruni, Simón,translator.;
Former seamstress turned couturier turned spy Sira Quiroga is finally ready to embrace serenity with her British diplomat husband, Marcus, and the upcoming prospect of motherhood. But tranquility proves elusive. Fate has other plans for Sira. Installed in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and enmeshed in the murky world of shady operators, political menace, and catastrophic violence, Sira finds her future with Marcus put to the ultimate test. Forced to reinvent herself again, Sira travels to England and adopts a new identity as a journalist dispatched to Spain. But as her skills at cunning duplicity are put into play, the ghosts of her past follow, bent on wreaking havoc in her life. Moving from turbulent Jerusalem and austere London to Franco's Madrid and colonial Tangier, and peopled with formidable real-life historical figures, Sira cuts an unforgettable path through the danger, stratagems, chaos, and promise of some of the most momentous events of the postwar era.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mothers; Nineteen forties; Spaniards; Women journalists; Women spies; World War, 1939-1945;
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Shanghai. by Håfström, Mikael,film director.; Yun-Fat, Chow,actor.; Li, Gong,actor.; Dean Morgan, Jeffrey,actor.; Cusack, John,actor.; Watanabe, Ken,actor.; Kikuchi, Rinko,actor.; Lionsgate (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, John Cusack, Ken Watanabe, Rinko KikuchiOriginally produced by Lionsgate in 2010.John Cusack stars as an American intelligence official who returns to Shanghai in late 1941 to investigate the death of a friend -- leading him to both love and a much larger conspiracy.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; Horror films.; China.; Historical films.; World War, 1939-1945.; War.; Nineteen forties.; Film noir.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).;
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Trumbo [videorecording] / by Cranston, Bryan,1956-actor.; Elliott, David James,1960-actor.; Fanning, Elle,1998-actor.; Flannery, Laura,actor.; Getz, John,1947-actor.; Lane, Diane,actor.; Maldonado, David,actor.; Mirren, Helen,actor.; Roach, Jay,film director.; Stuhlbarg, Michael,actor.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),publisher.;
Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Maldonado, John Getz, Laura Flannery, David James Elliott.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.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976; Biographical films.; Blacklisting of entertainers; Feature films.; Historical films.; Nineteen forties; Screenwriters;
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Agatha and the Midnight Murders. by Stephenson, Joe,film director.; Petrie, Alistair,actor.; Harrison, Blake,actor.; Bramhill, Gina,actor.; Baxendale, Helen,actor.; Boatswain, Jacqueline,actor.; PBS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Alistair Petrie, Blake Harrison, Gina Bramhill, Helen Baxendale, Jacqueline BoatswainOriginally produced by PBS in 2020.This film imagines what might have happened to the author Agatha Christie. London 1940: As the Blitz rages and her future is threatened by fallout from the war, Agatha Christie makes the decision to kill off her most famous creation. With Blake Harrison, Jacqueline Boatswain, Gina Bramhill, and Helen Baxendale as Agatha Christie.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Crime.; Motion pictures, British.; Historical films.; World War, 1939-1945.; Nineteen forties.; Detective and mystery films.; Authors.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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An excellent thing in a woman / by Montclair, Allison,author.;
"London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and ever-practical Mrs Gwendolyn Bainbridge are called to action when Gwen's beau Salvatore 'Sally' Danielli is accused of murder! Sally has taken a job at the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace, but when the beautiful Miss JeanneMarie Duplessis - one of the Parisian performers over for a new variety show - is found dead in the old theatre, a number of inconvenient coincidences make him Suspect No:1. Just days earlier, Miss Duplessis had arrived at The Right Sort, desperately looking for a husband - any husband - to avoid having to return to Paris. As the plot thickens, Iris is pulled back into the clandestine circles she moved in during the war and it soon becomes apparent that to clear Sally's name, she and Gwen would need to go on the hunt for a killer once more!"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Actresses; Murder; Nineteen forties;
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Come in spinner [videorecording] : the loves and lives of women in wartime / by Benyon, Lissa.; Chapman, Jan.; Clarke, Justine,1971-; Cusack, Dymphna.; Enright, Nicholas,1950-; Harrow, Lisa.; James, Florence.; Marchand, Robert.; Marshall, Bryan,1938-; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.;
Bryan Marshall, Lisa Harrow, Justine Clarke, Gary Sweet, Kerry Armstrong.This Australian drama set during the Second World War is a story of one week in the lives of three remarkable women who run a beauty salon in the posh South Pacific Hotel.PG.
Subjects: Beauty shops; Made-for-TV movies.; Nineteen forties; Television mini-series.; War television programs.; Women; World War, 1939-1945;
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1941 : the year Germany lost the war / by Nagorski, Andrew,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."By 1941, Nazi armies were ruling Europe, bombing London, and sinking British and American ships. The U.S. was undeclared and Britain was alone. But Nagorski shows that Hitler's grave miscalculations had already assigned Germany to ruin. By the end of that year Hitler had taken almost every wrong decision possible and though the fighting went on until 1945, Germany was already vanquished. As Nagorski demonstrated in The Greatest Battle, the Germans lost their first major battle in 1940 because Hitler meddled with and overruled his generals. Throughout 1941, Hitler continued to indulge his ego and make disastrous decisions. By invading the USSR he brought the Soviets to the Eastern Front. By declaring war on the U.S. he added the power of the U.S. to the Western Front. England was no longer alone. The Americans launched their attacks from its shores. The German's brutal treatment of the Russia and Polish POWs and citizens energized their will to fight back. The Year that Germany Lost the War is a stunning portrait of leadership. Churchill elegantly holding a battered Britain together; FDR biding his time until American forces can come aide the allies; Stalin fighting brutally, but enslaving Eastern Europe and planning a Cold War. And Hitler dragging his nation to physical and moral ruin before he took his life in ignominy."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Nineteen forty-one, A.D.;
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The devil's blaze : Sherlock Holmes 1943 / by Harris, Robert J.,1955-author.;
"London, 1943. Across the city, prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source of this dreadful menace--Sherlock Holmes. The quest for a solution drives Holmes into an uneasy alliance with the country's most brilliant scientific genius, Professor James Moriarty. Only Sherlock Holmes knows the truth that behind his façade of respectability, Moriarty is the mastermind behind a vast criminal empire. As they together pursue the trail of incendiary murders, Holmes is quite sure that Moriarty is playing a double-game--and that there lies ahead a duel to the death from which they will not both survive"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Holmes, Sherlock; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Watson, John H. (Fictitious character); Nineteen forties; Serial murder investigation; World War, 1939-1945;
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In place of fear / by McPherson, Catriona,1965-author.;
"Edinburgh, 1948. Helen Crowther leaves a crowded tenement home for her very own office in a doctor's surgery. Upstart, ungrateful, out of your depth - the words of disapproval come at her from everywhere but she's determined to take her chance and play her part. She's barely begun when she stumbles over a murder and learns that, in this most respectable of cities, no one will fight for justice at the risk of scandal. As Helen resolves to find a killer, she's propelled into a darker world than she knew existed, hardscrabble as her own can be. Disapproval is the least of her worries now."--Publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; National Health Service in Scotland; Murder; Nineteen forties; Social workers; Young women;
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