Ralph Richardson
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Nestled among the rolling hills and peaceful meadows of England lives a community of rabbits. When their warren is threatened, a small group of brave rabbits escapes into the unknown countryside seeking a new home. Led by the visionary Fiver, they face huge challenges and use strength and cunning to survive, while gaining new allies, battling new enemies and always pursuing their dream
2) Dragonslayer
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back in the days when everyone believed in magic, a horrifying fire-breathing dragon terrorized the sixth-century British countryside. The only hope for the beleaguered citizens is an aging sorcerer (Sir Ralph Richardson). But when he is killed before he can save the people, the task falls on his young apprentice, Galen (Peter MacNicol). Galen's mission is complicated by resistance from the king - and by falling in love - but his biggest challenge...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A film about the Russian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a doctor/poet. Doctor Zhivago sees his life torn apart by the Revolution and the alterations also affect the lives of many around him, including the gentle woman he marries and the fascinating other woman he cannot forget.
4) The apology
Author
Publisher
Caedmon
Pub. Date
p1971
Language
English
Description
The Apology is a short work written by Plato, a famous Greek philosopher and student of Socrates. The work primarily consists of a speech delivered by Socrates at his trail in 399 B.C. The Apology has three parts. In the first part, Socrates defends himself against the official charges made against him. Here Socrates tries to explain why he has not challenged the official religious beliefs of his day, corrupted the youth, or aligned himself with the...
5) Time bandits
Series
Criterion collection volume 37
Publisher
Anchor Bay Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An adventure-fantasy-comedy that takes the viewer on a wildly imaginative trip to a new dimension in time and space in which a young time traveller encounters many famous figures from history.
6) Exodus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth of Israel as an independent state, based on the novel by Leon Uris.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In the 5th century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
9) Time bandits
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only 6 days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy, they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoleon, Robinhood, Agamemnon, and others.
10) A doll's house
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Nora is sheltered first by her father and then by her husband. All her life, she has been protected like a fragile possession ... like a doll in a doll's house. After she marries, Nora becomes frustrated, realizes that under the dominance of her husband she will never have an identity of her own, and leaves to find a new life for herself.
11) Khartoum
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Britain's crisis in the Sudan and the siege at Khartoum in 1883.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
15) Twelfth night
Publisher
Granada International
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After a shipwreck, twin siblings Viola and Sebastian wash up on the shores of Illyria. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, takes up service with the Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the Lady Olivia. But Olivia is in mourning over her brother's death, so Orsino sends Cesario over as an emissary of love, except that Olivia falls for Viola!
17) The fallen idol
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[199-?]
Language
English
Description
Young boy idolizes a household servant who is suspected of murdering his wife.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The best of friends: In 1924, George Bernard Shaw was introduced to Dame Laurentia McLachlan, a Benedictine nun at the Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, England. Along with their mutual friend, Sydney Cockerell, director of Fitzwilliam Museum, the trio enjoyed 25 years of letters, literary debate and laughter. Relive their vigorous discussions on everythng from the existence of God, to the finer points of tango dancing.
Eagle in a cage: A school-teacher-turned-governor...
19) Anna Karenina
Series
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The Tolstoy classic novel in which Anna abandons her child and husband for a handsome young officer, and when she thinks he has tired of her, she kills herself by leaping under a train.
20) The wrong box
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other... or can be made to have seemed to do so!