New DVD List: Bombshell, Dolores & More

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Bombshell”
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When Nazi U-Boats torpedo a ship carrying school children during World War II, Hollywood movie star Hedy Lamarr decides to exact revenge. At night, after shooting her scenes on set, she works on a secret radio system that will allow the Allies to torpedo Nazi U-Boats with deadly accuracy. The secret communication system she creates is groundbreaking and eventually changes the course of history.

“Dolores”
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Playing last year at Ragtag Cinema, this film is about activist Dolores Huerta. Tirelessly leading the fight for racial and labor justice, Huerta evolved into one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century — and she continues the fight to this day, in her late 80s. With intimate and unprecedented access, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change.

“For Ahkeem”
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After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she’s determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood. But focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road.

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Overdrive /Libby

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