John Gielgud
2) Galileo
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest....
3) Plenty
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 678 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king, and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman.
5) Elizabeth
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Queen Elizabeth I must learn to weigh her counsel carefully and ignore her private yearnings if she is to keep her crown--and her head. A thriller of intrigue in the court of one of history's greatest monarchs.
6) Arthur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Arthur Bach is very, very rich, and he's next in line for a 750 million dollar inheritance. He stands to lose his inheritance--and a life in the lush style to which he is accustomed--if he doesn't marry the most boring blonde on Long Island within thirty days. Unfortunately, Arthur has just discovered the girl of his dreams.
7) The formula
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
35 years after the disappearance of a formula developed by Germany during World War II to derive cheap, pollution-free gasoline from coal, a Los Angeles detective is on the brink of unearthing the secret which could change the couse of world history.
Series
Criterion collection volume 830
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Prince Hal must choose between loyalty to Sir John Falstaff or to his father, King Henry IV.
10) Shine
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. He experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD with special features.
Description
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff; the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal, here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace.
Series
Superintendent Battle mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1920s, a feisty flapper turns to amateur sleuthing, teaming up with a suave man-about-town. The dark forces of murder and international intrigue combine with the froth of romance and frivolity for a thriller with wicked Christie wit.
Publisher
Distributed by Carlton International Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While celebrations are taking place at the new college building at Oxford, Morse and Lewis look into the murder of a freelance journalist, who was working on an article about college benefactor Bayden.
14) The elephant man
Series
Criterion collection volume 1051
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
15) Gandhi
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of Gandhi's adult life, when he led an entire country to freedom, using non-violent methods.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 415 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles a half century of British upper-class life through the eyes of Nicholas Jenkins, from the 1920s to the 1960s. See how friendship, adultery, ambition, and failure play out in London's social, political, and artistic scenes.
17) Becket
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
18) Julius Caesar
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c1988
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 6.5 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, sweeping the United States into World War II, the Henry family is forever changed by the war in the Pacific, and the horror of the Holocaust. Features spectacular reenactments of the event at Midway, Yalta, Guadalcanal and El Alamein.