Esmond Knight
1) Silver fleet
Series
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd. b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set during the occupation of Holland during World War II, the owner of a Dutch shipyard pretends to collaborate with the Nazis in order to protect his employees and his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
3) The river
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
4) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. Traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the spring of 1941. The story concentrates on the human element, specifically a British intelligence captain, who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck...
7) Contraband
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in England during the early days of World War II, a Danish sea captain and his passenger are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. The plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters in one peculiar set of surroundings after another. Most of the story takes place under blackout conditions, in which the great city becomes a mysterious dark labyrinth.