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1) Madame Curie
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and, with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010].
Language
English
Description
Finding the strength to pack up her three kids and leave an abusive husband, Marie works her way through college and lands a job with the State of Tennessee. Hard work moves her up to the appointment as the first woman to head the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, but she soon learns that justice and politics don't always mix.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
The true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church; Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope Jean Paul II- and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew; earning him both friends and enemies from either group....
Series
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Inspector Marie Brand is back on the murder beat working with the self-described ladies' man Jürgen Simmel. It's a May/December spring that works: he's tolerant of her eccentricities once he comprehends the scope of her brilliance and she needs a little protection along with the common sense and physicality he brings to investigations. Together they are an entertaining German dream team, catching the murderers, criminals and crooks of Cologne.
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
An exclusive investigation into one of the most fascinating and controversial mysteries of Christianity: the translation of the Holy House of Virgin Mary from Nazareth to Loreto, in Italy. According to the tradition, it was carried in flight from the Angels, stopping in several places before reaching its current position. A more recent theory would prove that it was moved by the Christians in the age of Crusades.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Jacques, a journalist with a reputation as an impartial investigator, is recruited by the Vatican to determine the legitimacy of a saintly apparition in a small French village. Upon his arrival, he meets the young and sensitive Anna, who claims to have witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Confronted with opposing views from all sides, Jacques gradually uncovers the truth and finds his belief system profoundly shaken.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Join Lucy Worsley on a journey across Europe to visit the incredible locations where royal history was made. From the Spanish Armada to the French Revolution, learn how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology. Host: Lucy Worsley.
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