Richard Attenborough
2) Shadowlands
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1993, 1998
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece "A farewell To arms". A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
World War II. On June 1, 1944, a United States bomber pilot crashes onto the Cave Hill just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He lives long enough to give a ring to a stranger and asks that he return it to his girlfriend. 50 years later, a young man searches for the woman to make good on a promise.
8) Elizabeth
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
16th century England. Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naïve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors. At the same time having to thwart her devious rivals and denying her own desires for the good of her country.
9) Brannigan
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chicago police lieutenant Jim Brannigan is sent to the UK to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the USA but Larkin's hit men prepare an ambush for Brannigan.
10) Doctor Dolittle
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on a variety of four-legged, fine-feathered patients. See his secret cures and watch as ordinary and exotic animals talk, dance, and sing.
11) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly...
Publisher
Shemaroo
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Urdu
Description
This drama about colonialism and indigenous culture is set in 1856 at the court of Wajid Ali Shah in Lucknow, the capital of Oudh. Features two parallel narratives. The first shows the interminable games of chess played by two hookah-smoking zamindars. The other dramatises the conflict between Wajid Ali Shah and General James Outram who represents Lord Dalhousie's treacherously implemented annexation policies. Wajid Ali is shown as a politically weak...
14) Gandhi
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
1983. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all South African Indians. The government finally relents and recognizing rights for Indians. Gandhi goes back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent campaign of unprecedented...
15) Magic
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Corky, a painfully shy, magician finds overnight success as a ventriloquist. Corky falls in love with Peggy Ann Snow and tells Fats, his brash foul-mouthed dummy, that he may leave show business. Fats becomes furious and starts manipulating Corky.
17) Chaplin
Publisher
Studio Canal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Well-crafted portrait traces Chaplin's impoverished London upbringing, extraordinary success as an actor and director, his troubled marriages, scandalous affairs, shocking exile to Switzerland and his triumphant return to Hollywood. Special features included.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as the Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with the Christmas spirit. Everyone that is, except Doris Walker, his boss, who is raising her daughter not to believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test as young...
19) A bridge too far
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies 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.
20) Gandhi
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
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.