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2) Liam
Publisher
Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The story of Liam, a seven-year-old boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1930s. As he prepares for his First Communion, young Liam tries to make sense of the complex and unsettled world around him, a world that is about to change forever due to economic, political and social upheaval.
Language
English
Description
Charles is from a family with little money. Sebastian's family is wealthy. The two become friends at Oxford. When Sebastian invites his friend to dinner, Charles becomes involved with Sebastian's family. After Charles becomes an officer in the British Army he and his company are moved to an English country house that he realizes is Sebastian's family home. Here he discovers memories of his youth and young manhood, his loves, life, and a journey of...
5) The nun
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
In 1760s France, Suzanne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music, enjoying a quietly privileged life. Inexplicably sent off to a convent, she resists structure at every turn until she discovers that she is an illegitimite child. Left with no other option, she pronounces her vows and suffers the consequences of her mother's sin. Still uncertain of her path and oppressed by aggressive and inappropriate Mother Superiors, Suzanne continues...
6) Broken
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish who is Modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed; must be confidant, counsellor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life.
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Language
English
Description
A 15-year-old dreams of getting out of her small, sheltered Catholic community to move to New York City. Her teacher is the only one who sees her potential and arranges a scholorship for her to attend an arts school in Manhattan, which her parents won't let her do. Then a 16-year-old moves in next door and the two come up with a plan to escape New Waterford ... in the only way possible.
Publisher
Liberation Hall
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, a cynical Catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach in post-revolution Mexico: a cleric who risks his life by continuing to conduct the Catholic Mass in secret after the totalitarian government has outlawed the Catholic Church. In order to confer the Christian sacraments, the priest must have wine but his attempts to obtain wine will call attention to his clandestine activities.
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture. Accompanying CD presents "a musical tapestry complementing the emigrant's...
11) Stella days
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
12) The Conflict
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Martin Sheen stars in this religious drama that pits the protectors of tradition against the emissaries of change. Sheen, on a mission from the Vatican to help adminsister reforms within the Roman Catholic Church, is dispatched to a secluded monastery in Ireland where he meets an Abbot (Trevor Howard) that does not share his views on how to lead his flock.
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An apparition of the Virgin Mary. A multi-million euro restoration project. A plane full of American pilgrims en route. Thousands of faithful seeking a miracle. Strange Occurrences in a small Irish village explores the big question of faith, in a small Irish village. One dark evening in 1879 in the town of Knock, Ireland, fifteen villagers claim to witness a vision of the Virgin Mary. After two official inquiries, the village was declared a Marian...
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Is Israel really the best place in the world to be gay? And is Judaism the one mainstream religion that accepts homosexuality? Meet Simon, a gay Catholic man from the West of Ireland on a quest to find out. Simon has never truly felt accepted by his own church, a problem that Matthew, his Jewish boyfriend from North London, has never had to face.
Publisher
Out of the Blue Films, Inc
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
From her prison cell, Sarah Melici as Dorothy Day shares Dorothy's vision of active nonviolence and peace, as well as her work to promote social, economic and political justice. She moves between Dorothy (at various ages) and others who come into her story, giving balanced attention to Dorothy's loves, spirituality and politics. There are at least a dozen characters. She wants people to know Dorothy Day, the writer, the lover, the mother, the teacher,...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Three critically-acclaimed British romances featuring talented casts. In Becoming Jane, a dashing young man offends an emerging writer's sense and sensibility. In Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder is invited to a charming aristocrat's estate where he is seduced by the opulent lifestyle. In Jane Eyre, Jane finds herself in a passionate romance with a handsome, yet mysterious, gentleman.
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