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2) Zoo
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English
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Based on a true story, 12 year old Tom (Art Parkinson) and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941. Winner of the Films4Families Youth Jury Award at the **Seattle International Film Festival**. "*A thrilling adventure for all ages.*" - Justin Lowe, ***Hollywood Reporter***
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Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn't be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do...
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English
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"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam. Alan, a divorced university art teacher will go to Amsterdam to see Bob Dylan in concert and with the hope that the city that welcomed him as a young man will refresh those memories. What he doesn't know is that his troubled teenage son will be accompanying him. Karen, a single mother, heads to Amsterdam with her daugher's hen party,...
9) Belfast
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a boy growing up in the late 1960s in Belfast whose family must decide whether to stay or leave amid the social tumult.
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"A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland The early 1980s. Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Cormac McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze Prison. In the course of his investigations Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Cormac's whereabouts;...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
Description
"Until the first bombs fell on Belfast in 1941, the city had had little direct experience of the war: there was plenty of food, no conscription and the only air raids that residents saw were on news reels. But, in April and May of that year everything changed. The Luftwaffe targeted the city, launching bombing raids of such ferocity that one observer described the Nazi planes as being like a 'giant swarm of insects'. Over one thousand people were...
18) The boxer
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English
Description
When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.
19) Jump
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Follows the trials and tribulations of three seemingly unconnected sets of young people in Belfast on New Year's Eve. Gradually, the links between them are revealed as fate takes a hand in a night of fast talk, accidents and intrigue.
20) 71: DVD
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A young British soldier must survive the night after he is accidentally abandoned by his unit during the 1971 Belfast riots.
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