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Richard Attenborough
2) Shadowlands
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
A dramatized biography of C.S. Lewis, a Christian apologist who, after his wife's untimely death, had to pull himself out of depression and reconfirm his faith.
Publisher
Petrie Productions
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
This award winning film follows Mother Teresa, the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, into the world's trouble spots from the war in Beirut to Guatemala under siege, from the devastated streets of Calcutta to the ghettoes of the South Bronx.
4) Grey Owl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Archie Grey Owl, a 1930s frontier trapper who fought the extinction of the woods of the Great North and protection of the land he loved.
5) Cry freedom
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The story of black activist, Stephen Biko and a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world.
6) Magic
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
7) Grey Owl
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
10) The sand pebbles
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Based on Ludovic Kennedy's investigative book, this is the true and horrifying story of serial killer John Christie. When Timothy Evans and his wife move into Christie's tiny flat, they do not know that they are now part of the latest plan Christie has hatched to lure yet another woman to her death and pin the blame on Evans, who is soon afterwards hanged. It is only when fate exposes the crimes of the death-house at 10 Rillington Place in London,...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
15) Dunkirk
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Gorgeously restored and available for the first time in HD, DUNKIRK follows the dramatic events leading up to Operation Dynamo during WWII, while honoring the bravery of its soldiers and exposing the brutality of the war.
18) Brighton Rock
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1948.
Language
English
Description
Pinky, the psychotic, razor-toting gang leader, romances and marries a teenage waitress in order to keep her silent about one of his nefarious crimes. Richard Attenborough’s intense performance as teenage gangster Pinkie Brown elevates this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. *"A seedy noir, equal parts concealed-camera atmosphere and tense set pieces." - Vadim Rizov, **Villiage Voice***
19) Closing the ring
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A ring found in Northern Ireland unlocks memories for a recently widowed woman and her grieving daughter in Michigan.
20) Doctor Dolittle
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A musical about a doctor who wishes his animals could speak to him.