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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Frontline and ProPublica investigate the relationship between Firestone and the infamous Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. Based on the inside accounts of Americans who ran the company's Liberia rubber plantation, and diplomatic cables and court documents, the investigation reveals how Firestone conducted business during the brutal Liberian civil war.
3) Fitzcarraldo
Series
Language
German
Description
Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An evocative historical novel set in 1930's Indochine, about the American wife of a Michelin heir who journeys to the French colony in the name of family fortune, and the glamorous, tumultuous world she finds herself in-and the truth she may be running from. On a humid afternoon in 1933, American Jessie Lesage steps off a boat from Paris and onto the shores of Vietnam. Accompanying her French husband Victor, an heir to the Michelin rubber fortune,...
Publisher
Amaras Art Alliange
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
""Destination Watertown ; The Armenians of Hood Rubber" is a documentary film on the Hood Rubber Company, which employed many immigrants, especially Armenians, whose community evolved in the shadow of the factory's giant smokestack. The plant opened in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1896, attracting Armenian immigrants, refugees from the Abdul Hamid massacres and the 1915 Genocide. B. F. Goodrich took over the company in 1929, through the depression...
17) Fitzcarraldo
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
German
Description
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman who struggles to bring his dream, an opera house in the Amazon jungle, to reality.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the relationship between Firestone and the infamous Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. Based on the inside accounts of Americans who ran the company's Liberia rubber plantation, and diplomatic cables and court documents, the investigation reveals how Firestone conducted business during the brutal Liberian civil war.
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