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Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Complete story of the D-Day landings at Normandy through the eyes of all its participants. D-Day was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in France during Operation Overlord, beginning the 6th of June, 1944, and was the largest seaborne invasion in history. It began with overnight parachute and glider landings, air attacks, naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious landing." --
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In his personal diaries Richard Burton is a man quite different from the one we "know" as acclaimed actor, international film star and jet-set celebrity. From these private pages there emerges a different person--a family man, a father, a husband, a man often troubled and always keenly observing. Understood through his own words, day by day and year by year, Burton becomes a fully rounded human being who, with a wealth of talent and a surprising burden...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate.
6) Cleopatra
Series
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra tries to increase her power with help from the Roman Empire. Both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony fall for her. After Caesar's death Cleopatra seduces Mark Antony, but the couple soon face certain doom.
Publisher
Sundance Channel LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This ambitious film, based on a radio play by poet Dylan Thomas, tells of the lives of several colorful characters living in a small Welsh town. Throughout, a background voice (native Welshman Richard Burton), narrates the day-in-the-life action.
10) The Desert Rats
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Story of the Allied troops who held Rommel at bay in North Africa despite being hopelessly outnumbered.
11) The robe
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
This is the inspiring story of the robe that Jesus wore on the cross and the Roman centurion, Marcellus Gallio, who wins the robe in a gambling match at the foot of the cross.
Series
Criterion collection ; 984
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself. Based on the book by George Orwell. This is the version released in 1984.
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Winston Smith (Hurt) endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. But his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the chillingly labeled 'Ministry of Love, ' he is placed at the mercy of O'Brien (Burton), a coolly treacherous leader determined to control his thoughts ... and crush his soul"--Container.
17) Zulu
Series
Language
English
Description
Zulu is set in Africa in 1879 only hours after the battle of Isandhlwana. A small group of British soldiers stood their ground at a farm house against an onslaught of wave after wave of Zulus.
18) The sandpiper
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.
19) The comedians
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A sardonic white hotel owner watches Haiti sink into barbarism with growing fatalism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.
20) Becket
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
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