Edward Fox
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Algernon is a gentleman from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cecily has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cecily.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In the darkest days of World War II, Hitler's armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path. But U.S. Colonel Barnsby plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he'll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the Force 10 squad, fresh from their triumphant mission at Navarone. But when the team's plan goes awry in the firestorm of blistering battles, deceit and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel star in this dramatic film about two officers in Napoleon's army who violently confront each other in a series of duels. The duels begin as a reaction to a minor incident and escalate into a consuming passion that rules the lives of both men for a period of 30 years. Based on Joseph Conrad's story, THE DUELLISTS explores the themes of obsession, honor and violence. This visually breathtaking film weaves a compelling...
8) Gandhi
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the life of Gandhi beginning with his political activities in South Africa during the late 1890's and ending with his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948. Shows the development of his philosophy of non-violence as he leads the people of India to independence from the British.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. However, a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and worse weather led to disaster.
10) Robin Hood
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The story of the outlaw hero Robin Hode who flees into the forest and changes his name to Robin Hood after insulting an evil knight.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle's War takes place far from the glory of the front. His is an ordinary struggle, against everyday evil, in extraordinarily dangerous times.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple finds herself spending the weekend at Chimneys, the stately home of Lord Caterham whose late wife was her cousin. The weekend has something of a diplomatic air to it as the Austrian Count Ludwig von Stainach is also there to negotiate a trade agreement with the British that will give it access to iron ore. Chimneys was once the 'in' place to be for a fancy weekend but over many years, it has become somewhat run-down. Except for a maid...
14) Galileo
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Screen version of Bertolt Brecht's play about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of British upper-class members from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Volume 1: Nicholas Jenkins regales his married lover, Jean, with tales of his school days in the early 1920s, including his enduring friendships with Jean's suave older brother Peter Templer, the sad and fragile Charles Stringham, and the oft-mocked buffoon Kenneth Widmerpool. As Nicholas's affair with Jean comes to an end, he is introduced to the mysterious clairvoyant...
16) Shaka Zulu
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
The epic story of the uniting of the Zulu tribes into a powerful new nation under the leadership of one man, set in the period of European colonial expansion.
Publisher
Jef Films
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A group of aristocratic men and women have gathered for a shooting party at an English country estate in 1913. As members of the privileged elite, anything goes -- as long as it doesn't threaten the established order or offend accepted morality. But times are changing and a new age is about to dawn.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
On the evening of December 11, 1936, England's King Edward VIII formally broadcast his farewell to a nation. Torn between duty and love, he had decided to follow his heart. Follows the true story and the unforgettable romance that developed between the Prince of Wales and an extraordinary American woman named Wallis Simpson. That she was already married and rumored to have had other affairs, ruffled more than a few feathers. The scandal only heats...