Stephen Dillane
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Santiago Munez, an immigrant from Los Angeles, is given the chance to go to England to pursue his dream of becoming a professional soccer player. This underdog must prove he has the talent, passion, and determination to triumph against all odds.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Our investigative duo--pragmatic, meticulous and newly promoted Commander Elise Wasserman, and laconic but brilliant DCI Karl Roebuck--reunite to investigate the case of a French couple abducted from the Eurotunnel, leaving behind their traumatized daughter, Chloe Fournier. But the case is complicated when a plane carrying British and French passengers crashes into the Channel killing everyone on board"--pbs.org.
5) King Arthur
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A reluctant leader, Arthur wishes only to leave Britain and return to the peace and stability of Rome. Before he can, one final mission leads him and his Knights of the Round Table - Lancelot, Galahad, Bors, Tristan, and Gawain - to the conclusion that when Rome is gone, Britain will need a leader to fill the void. Britain needs a king - someone not only to defend against the current threat of invading Saxons, but to lead the isle into the new age....
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship-at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.
7) King Arthur
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reluctant leader, Arthur wishes only to leave Britain and return to the peace and stability of Rome. Before he can, one final mission leads him and his Knights of the Round Table - Lancelot, Galahad, Bors, Tristan, and Gawain - to the conclusion that when Rome is gone, Britain will need a leader to fill the void. Britain needs a king - someone not only to defend against the current threat of invading Saxons, but to lead the isle into the new age....
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An American backpacking in rural England has her life taking a turn for the worse after a car accident. During recovery, she is befriended by a researcher studying a buried 1st Century church embedded with images of Christ's crucifixion. She begins to have horrific visions of the townspeople and their deaths.
9) Darkest hour
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.
"Academy Award® winner Gary Oldman gives a "towering performance" (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair) in acclaimed director Joe Wright's soaring drama Darkest Hour. As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close...
10) Anna Karenina
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004, 2000.
Language
English
Description
"This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna's children--a son by Karenin and an illegitimate daughter by Vronsky--become pawns in Karenin's game to see that Anna pays a terrible price for her indiscretion."--Container.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The emotionally charged finale of the acclaimed bilingual crime thriller reunites Stephen Dillane with Clemence Poesy for the last outing of the unlikely Anglo-French partnership. Set amidst mid-Brexit hysteria, an escalating refugee crisis, and the increasing threat of terror from disenfranchised, exiled souls on whom society has turned its back.
12) Spy game
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free Bishop from his Chinese captors.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne ... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
14) The hours
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it....
15) Mary Shelley
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The real-life story of Mary Shelley, and the creation of her immortal monster, is nearly as fantastical as her fiction. Raised by a renowned philosopher father in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary...
16) Zero dark thirty
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
17) Haven
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Shy and Andrea share a secret her parents can never know - the two are in love. But a night of passion leads to the discovery of their secret and a devastating act of vengeance by Andrea's brother. Meanwhile, a shady American businessman has fled with his daughter to the Islands to avoid federal prosecution, only to be drawn into a dangerous web of deceit. A chain reaction of violence is set in motion that will determine whether love can survive.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Regina returns home to find her husband, Charlie, murdered and three violent strangers claiming Charlie cheated them out of millions. When she accepts help from a mysterious stranger, she is plunged into a world where a double-cross turns into a triple-cross and trust turns into the deadliest weapon of all.
Publisher
[Platinum Disc LLC]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Michael Lynch is Dublin's most notorious criminal, known for brazen robberies that perplex the police and inspire his fellow working-class Northsiders. But when the one cop sharp enough to catch Lynch gets on his case, our fun-loving criminal gets a run for his money!
20) John Adams
Language
English
Formats
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.