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3) Mister Pip
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On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic "Great Expectations."
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Planes bomb Lae; General MacArthur confers with officers and then flies in an airborne operation; paratroops join Australian troops in making a landing strip. 2. The landing at Salerno, Italy; U.S. Navy guns down German planes; General Clark comes ashore and confers with General Alexander; troops advance; German prisoners are moved to the rear.
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For hundreds of years, the Huli people of Papua New Guinea lived by their ancient customs, relying on tradition to govern all aspects of life. Then the white man came, threatening their unique culture. Stuck between ancestral values and an ever-changing modern world, they found themselves struggling to maintain their tribal identity. This documentary describes how the Huli try to cope with radical changes while clinging to their past. Bride price,...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. A light plane conducts reconnaissance on Bougainville; artillery blasts Japanese positions; infantry units advance. 2. Governor Dewey welcomes the liberation of Paris. 3. Allied troops invade southern France; a coastal village is occupied after a raging battle between shore batteries and naval guns; French underground members welcome the allies.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. An amphibious assault on the Admiralty Islands and troops fighting on Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. 2. Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek inspect an airbase in China. 3. Ten dirigibles are used to train pilots in California. 4. Servicemen on leave visit the Taj Mahal and the ruins of Pompeii. 5. Fighters of the 8th Air Force down German planes.
13) Mr. Pip
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Mr. Watts is the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's "Pip" world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and people...
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"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile."--