Alan MacNaughtan
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A steel-worker is elected prime minister of Great Britain on a very radical socialist platform. When he calls for the dismantling of all nuclear weapons on British soil, a group composed of spies, diplomats and businessmen attempts to bring him down.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he finds and loses love with several women.
3) Victim
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A highly respected, but closeted barrister, Melville Farr, risks his marriage and reputation to take on an elusive blackmail ring terrorizing gay men with the threat of public exposure and police action.
4) Daniel Day-Lewis triple feature: How many miles to Babylon ; The insurance man ; Dangerous corner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
How many miles to Babylon?: Two Irishmen -- Alex Moore (Day-Lewis), a Protestant, and his childhood friend Jerry, a Catholic, enter WWI as soldiers and see their friendship tested as they experience the harsh realities of war.
The insurance man: Told through flashbacks, the story follows Franz, who recounts a mysterious skin condition he suffered as a factory worker before the First World War. At Prague's infamous Insurance Company, Franz meets Kafka...