Burning Bright
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Burning Bright follows the Kellaway family as they leave behind tragedy in rural Dorset and come to...
Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust
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It is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Nazi party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer...
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Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar #1)
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Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie...
Journey of Thieves (Legends of Dimmingwood #5)
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Upon leaving Dimmingwood, Ilan thinks she has finally escaped the influence of her old enemy, the...
Marvel's Jessica Jones
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This Netflix original chronicles the life of one of the darker Marvel characters, the mysterious...
The Mersey Girls
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Spring 1913, and seventeen-year-old Evie Murphy is leaving her native Ireland for the city of...
The Honor List (2018)
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At the start of high school, Piper, Sophie, Isabella and Honor think they will be best friends...
Bad Girls Never Say Die
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1964. Houston, Texas. Evie Barnes is a bad girl. So are all her friends. They’re the sort who...
Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman (The Elizabethan Series #6)
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Bess Throckmorton defies her notorious background and lack of education to become Queen...
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Strong Island (2017) in Movies
Sep 15, 2017
However, this was rather different. This wasn't about getting to the bottom of a mystery. This was about a family's personal tragedy - in this case, the family of the director Yance Ford. At the time of this film she had not started her transition to becoming transgender, so he now refers as a male.
His story is about the death of his older brother William, shot dead by a white man in dubious self defence circumstances. It shows how his family struggled to cope in the aftermath, and there's a scene where the director cries in agony and it is sheer horror to watch it. A delicately tragic insight into Ford's trauma.