Jack Hawkins
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Philip Calvert is a secret service agent assigned to stop the ruthless pirating of millions of dollars of gold bullion in the Irish seas. His search takes him to a small port in the Hebrides where numerous fishing boats, yachts, and people have been mysteriously disappearing. A trail of deceit and subterfuge leads him to fabulously wealthy residents Sir Anthony Skouras and his beautiful wife Charlotte, who may hold the answers to the truth.
3) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. Fom that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
5) Zulu
Publisher
Charter Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
A stubborn British commander pits his 105 men against an oncoming horde of 4,000 Zulus when he refuses to abandon his outpost.
6) Zulu
Series
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
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.
10) The black rose
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A Saxon youth is run out of England during the Crusades, and goes with his loyal retainer to adventures in China where they become intrigued in the court of Kubla Kahn.
11) Lord Jim
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joseph Conrad's saga of an idealistic merchant marine officer who disgraces himself when he abandons ship in the Far East. A tale of both cowardice and redemption.
12) The fallen idol
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.
13) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ.
15) The ruling class
Series
Criterion collection volume 132
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed doors of the aristocracy.
16) Theater of blood
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A demented actor and his daughter set about murdering each of London's nine prominent drama critics according to murders in Shakespeare's plays.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Maltese falcon: After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.
Citizen Kane: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress...