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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Gru delights in all things wicked. Surrounded by an army of tireless little yellow minions, and armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen, a potential dad.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Two orphan vampires (Les Deux Orphelines Vampires) follows Henriette and Louise (Isabelle Teboul and Alexandra Pic), two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Little do the nuns know, each night as the sun goes down, their "little angels" acquire night vision (they "see blue"), as well as an appetite for blood and teenage mischief.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the US in 1966. Told to keep her true identity a secret from her new American family, this eight-year-old girl quickly forgot she was ever anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE is the search to find the answers. It follows acclaimed filmmaker Deann...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Shot in Mozambique, but set in an unnamed city, the film depicts the life of an orphan boy, Nelio, whose parents were killed by guerrillas. He escapes to the city and finds magic there and is soon rumoured to possess healing powers, in this violent, yet mythic coming -of-age story. Based on a novel by the popular Swedish writer Henning Mankell.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
"In this soul-stirring collection, Sara Stanley comes of age in an all-new environment filled with family, friends, and foes. Amazing events follow as Sara gets acquainted with her emotionally guarded guardian, Aunt Hetty, and feuds and frolics with her prank-playing cousins, Felix and Felicity."--Container.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1995?]
Language
English
Description
The California Angels are a struggling baseball team praying to win a pennant. Their luck changes as their biggest fan, 11-year-old Roger, begins giving the coach tips from a real live angel. The team not only climbs back into the pennant race, but learns to believe in themselves.
9) Korczak
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
10) The saver
Publisher
Prospector Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping drama, 16-year old Fern sets out to fight for life on her own terms after her mother's sudden death. However, she soon learns that she needs community more than money to survive.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swati
Description
Amidst the highest prevalence of HIV in the world and the lowest life expectancy, three grandmothers in Swaziland, a small, landlocked country in southern Africa between South Africa and Mozambique, cope in this critical moment in time. The generation between the grandmothers and their grandchildren has been severely effected by HIV.
13) Everyone's Child
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A feature film examining the plight of Africa's 10,000,000 children orphaned by AIDS. Everyone's Child is an eloquent call for action on behalf of Africa's millions of parentless children. Through the tragic story of one Zimbabwean family devastated by AIDS, the film challenges Africans to reaffirm their tradition that an orphan becomes "Everyone's Child." Everyone's Child is the most recent production from Zimbabwe's Media for Development Trust (MFD)....
14) P
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
While growing up in rural Thailand, a young and beautiful orphan girl is taught the mysterious art of dark magic by her grandmother. When her grandmother falls sick, young Dau travels to Bangkok looking for work in order to earn enough money for medicine. She lands a job as an exotic dancer at a go-go club. Hesitant at first and ridiculed by the other dancers, circumstances force Dau to become an adult before her time and ultimately becomes the most...
16) The whipping boy
Publisher
Pied Piper Productions
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
A spoiled prince and a street-wise urchin outwit zany villains and discover true friendship. Designed to motivate reading of the book.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A housemaid, who is sexually abused by her boss and made pregnant, is forced to give up her son in order to go on with her education. Six years later she comes back to claim her son. From Malawi comes this moving story about sexual abuse, women rights and the legal justice system in Malawi.
19) Les misérables
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
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