Laurence Olivier
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already...
4) Spartacus
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
5) Rebecca
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life donimated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
7) Marathon man
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container.
11) Othello
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's classic tragedy of jealousy, deceit, conspiracy, and murder as Othello's great love for his wife Desdemona proves to be his downfall.
12) A little romance
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A comedy about a boy and a girl, 13-year-olds, in Paris, who fall in love, and an old gentlemanly rascal who helps them in their plans to visit the Bridge of Sighs in Venice.
13) 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.
15) Rebecca
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
16) War requiem
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The horrors of war and the pacifist sentiments expressed in Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the poems of Wilfred Owen are evoked in scenes and vignettes illustrating death and suffering in World War I.
17) King Lear
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
Presents William Shakespeare's play about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters.
18) Hamlet
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
19) Richard III
Series
Criterion collection volume 213
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to become the King of England through deceit and murder.