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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
2) Overboard
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014], 1987
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
Author
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"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When Nell was a girl, her parents were regularly evicted from the workers’ cottages they rented around Port Melbourne. Now a great-grandmother with 87 descendants, Nell still lives in the Port. But the cohesion of Nell’s extended family and neighbourhood is threatened by the pressures of modernisation and an influx of young professionals into the area. The old inner city suburb of Port Melbourne is the traditional home of working people whose...
5) EMPIRE FALLS
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
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"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
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Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey-especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade...
9) Incendiary
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Chris Cleave's debut novel Incendiary-winner of the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize-is sure to captivate the same people who made Little Bee one of the most talked-about novels of the last decade. Written as an open letter to Osama bin Laden from a distraught woman whose husband and son were killed in a massive suicide bombing, Incendiary was published in the UK on July 7, 2005- eerily, the day of the...
10) The chisellers
Author
Series
Agnes Browne volume Book 2
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The unsinkable Agnes Browne returns with more delightful tales from working-class Dublin in this follow-up to THE MAMMY. Agnes' seven children, whom she affectionately calls "the chisellers," are struggling to make their way in the world with varying degrees of success. To make matters more difficult, she learns that the family is about to be forced out of their tenement home in the name of urban renewal. Pierre, Agnes' persistent suitor, is thankfully...
11) Scrapper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Georgie is a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden new parental figure, Georgie is stubbornly resistant...
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